24 May 24

Rounding out a week for the foodie, MDM cook up a pretzel shaped silver coin

By |2024-05-24T19:21:45+01:00May 24th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Silver, MDM, Samoa|0 Comments

Rounding out a week for the foodie, MDM cook up a pretzel shaped silver coin It's turned into a bit of a food coin week, with a pink iced donut kicking it off, and a buffalo wing earlier today, so we thought we had time to sneak in one more, so enter MDM Wholesale with [...]

24 May 24

Melbourne Coin Company celebrates 60 years of the iconic Buffalo Wing with a half-ounce silver shaped coin

By |2024-06-02T18:42:37+01:00May 24th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Silver, Melbourne Coin Co., Niue Island|2 Comments

Melbourne Coin Company celebrates 60 years of the iconic Buffalo Wing with a half-ounce silver shaped coin There are many stories about the creation of the iconic buffalo wing, none more endearing than the tale that they were created by Teresa Bellissimo in 1964. She owned the Anchor Bay, in Buffalo, New York with her [...]

23 May 24

Coins Today’s stackable silver bullion range hits new heights of esoterica with a 13th century Armenian khachkar design

By |2024-05-23T22:28:32+01:00May 23rd, 2024|Categories: Architecture, Art & Literature, History, Bullion Round, Silver, Coins Today KR|0 Comments

Coins Today's stackable silver bullion range hits new heights of esoterica with a 13th century Armenian khachkar design Goshavank is a monastery nestled deep in the mountains of Armenia. Built on the site of a monastery destroyed in an 1188 CE earthquake, it housed a school founded by Mkhitar Gosh, who also aided in its [...]

23 May 24

Eastern Caribbean 8: Anguilla gold and silver bullion coins (2023 Scottsdale Mint)

By |2024-05-23T13:40:00+01:00May 23rd, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Anguilla, Bullion, Sport, Gold, Silver, Scottsdale Mint|0 Comments

Along with the Montserrat coin came the issue for Anguilla. Regular readers will know of my affinity for this island, having lived and worked there in 2005/6, so it's great to see a coin capture the place so well. The boat races around the island (it isn't a big place) were a highlight of the annual calendar, [...]

23 May 24

Eastern Caribbean 8: Montserrat gold and silver bullion coins (2023 Scottsdale Mint)

By |2024-05-23T12:43:29+01:00May 23rd, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Bullion, Nature, Gold, Silver, Montserrat, Scottsdale Mint|0 Comments

We recently covered the second pair of coins in Scottsdale Mint's eight-coin Eastern Caribbean 8 programme for 2023, the sixth annual run through this beautiful region of the world. This is the fifth of them, and is for the island of Montserrat, famous for an active volcano that sometimes like to try and kill everyone, the last [...]

22 May 24

Emporium Hamburg’s World’s Wildlife series returns with a Peregrine Falcon in proof and bullion form

By |2024-05-22T20:47:15+01:00May 22nd, 2024|Categories: Bullion, Nature, Coloured, Gilded, Gold, Silver, Congo, Emporium Hamburg|0 Comments

Emporium Hamburg's World's Wildlife series returns with a Peregrine Falcon in proof and bullion form Emporium Hamburg has a fine history when it comes to bullion coins, with such staples of the bullion calendar as the Somali Elephant, Prehistoric Life, the African Leopard, and World's Wildlife in their repertoire. It's the last of those that [...]

21 May 24

Rogue’s Island Mint joins the food coin genre with the launch of a cleverly shaped donut coin

By |2024-05-21T22:01:03+01:00May 21st, 2024|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Silver, Cameroon, Rogues Island Mint|0 Comments

Rogue's Island Mint joins the food coin genre with the launch of a cleverly shaped donut coin Of all the genres in modern numismatics, perhaps food has brought the most unusual ideas to the party. We've had scratch-and-sniff pizza, a bowl of instant noodles, Haribo Bears, and a $130,000 fried egg, for example, and now Rogue's [...]

20 May 24

The coloured 2oz cast silver bar market continues to expand with additions from Germania Mint, Carpathian Mint and Asturmint

By |2024-05-20T14:53:18+01:00May 20th, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, Bullion, Coloured, Asturmint, Silver, Carpathian Mint, Germania Mint|1 Comment

The coloured 2oz cast silver bar market continues to expand with additions from Germania Mint, Carpathian Mint and Asturmint A new concept launched in January by Germania Mint, the two-ounce cast silver bar with a themed, coloured front, has certainly captured the attention of buyers, and their introduction of a program to work with other [...]

17 May 24

Parthava Coin follows up a striking Jaguar debut in its ‘Day and Night’ wildlife series with a piercing look at an American icon – the Bald Eagle

By |2024-05-17T18:20:30+01:00May 17th, 2024|Categories: Nature, Coloured, Silver, Palau, Parthava Coin|0 Comments

Parthava Coin follows up a striking Jaguar debut in its 'Day and Night' wildlife series with a piercing look at an American icon - the Bald Eagle Wildlife is one of the core themes in numismatics, and has been since coins started appearing in toga pockets several millennia ago. Depictions of the creatures we inhabit [...]

17 May 24

The Legend of Robin Hood returns to numismatics with a detail-packed, high-relief silver issue from T&S Coin

By |2024-05-17T14:10:24+01:00May 17th, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Gilded, Silver, Cameroon, T&S Coins|1 Comment

The Legend of Robin Hood returns to numismatics with a detail-packed, high-relief silver issue from T&S Coin Robin Hood has been a cultural legend in England for centuries, but has travelled far and wide since Victorian times. The story of a man giving up wealth to fight injustice, literally robbing the rich to feed the poor, [...]

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