The Royal Mint brushes off the dies for the unstruck Waterloo Medal by Benedetto Pistrucci and produces an elegant new coin Back in 2015, for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, the Royal Mint refreshed the original tooling for the unstruck Battle of Waterloo medal and produced a 250 gram, antique-finished version with a [...]
You don't have to take magic mushrooms to see the ones on Mint of MKs latest silver coin issue glow when the lights go out... Who hasn't heard of shrooms? Magic mushrooms have been an ever-present part of the popular culture movement since the 1960s, but their actual use goes back further - far, far, further. [...]
Coca-Cola memorabilia, in all its many forms, remains a popular collector market, and the numismatic world has added its fair share to the choices on offer. Of most note is a range of bottle cap coins from the now defunct Crown Mint, featuring Coca-Cola logos from around the world, but MTB-PAMP have also issued a wide range [...]
Powercoin continues its numismatic look back at retro technology with an homage to the first generation of the digital watch It was in the early 1970s that watches took their first tentative steps into the digital world, when the Hamilton Pulsar, complete with a red LED screen, debuted to much fanfare. Celebrities queued up to [...]
The Royal Mint employs the talents of Jody Clark for its St George and the Dragon bullion coin range, the first in a new series Able to make a case for itself as being the single most iconic image in numismatics, Benedetto Pistrucci's St George and the Dragon has adorned the British Sovereign bullion coin for [...]
One of nature's finest aerial hunters, the dragonfly, is cast in silver as a new coin for the Republic of Cameroon It's hard not to look on in wonder at the aerobatics of the dragonfly. Able to propel itself in six directions almost instantly (including backwards), they can pull 9g in a turn, hit over 50 [...]
Asturmint have shown the second release in their Poker Cards range of cast silver bars, produced under Germania Mint's program, that seems to have stirred real interest in the collector community. The bar follows the standard format of these, cast with two ounces of 0.999 silver to a specific size, and antique-finished. The selling point of these [...]
Launching today is the second in the New Zealand Mint's 'Star Trek Vehicles' range of one-ounce silver coins. The obvious stand-out here is the coin's unusual shape, almost like a sci-fi datachip, for example. The rest of the spec is quite standard, however, being a proof strike with colour on the reverse face. The first coin featured [...]
MK's two-ounce silver Buddha coin returns with almost 12 ounces of copper in tow, and an expanded diameter Back in March of this year, the Mint of MK launched a two-ounce silver coin depicting the Buddha in meditation. It was designed in the same ilk as the gigantic, copper-zinc-silver hybrid, 1,000 Armed Bodhisattva, which had a 188 [...]
Groundbreaking French sculptor, Auguste Rodin's seminal work, 'Gates of Hell', joins Coin Today's expansive stackable silver range Widely considered to be the founder of modern sculpture, François Auguste René Rodin was born in Paris in 1840. He showed a strong artistic aptitude at an early age, and over his lifetime kept up a prodigious output, [...]
