National buildings, national institutions, heroes of history, and heroes of sport headline the Royal Mint's 2024 circulating designs Hers's a little detour from our break to take a traditional look at the new Royal Mint circulating designs which were unveiled today. Perhaps a less political mix this year, we have a pair of designs marking [...]
Our best wishes to all our friends. We hope your 2023 was a great one, and your 2024 will be better. Happy Holidays! Another year has passed, and hopefully, it was a better one for you than the two that came before, It's a markedly different world to the one of just five years ago, and we're [...]
The 12 Guides of Christmas: Number 7 - Tudor Beasts by The Royal Mint We're getting there! Here is the seventh of our 12 Guides of Christmas, which we'll probably rename 12 Guides of Approximately Christmas, as I've yet again underestimated the work involved. You must all be used to it by [...]
After finishing Allegories and Mythical Forest in 2023, Germania Mint ends the year with the launch of Witchcraft: Seeress With the finishing up of Germania Mint's 'Allegories' and 'Mythical Forest' ranges, their Germania World selection had shrunk considerably, but fortunately, because we’ve been big admirers of the Germania World range, there's a new addition to bring [...]
Numiartis continues its numismatic biography of the Five Tiger Generals, with the controversial Ma Chao Numiartis continues its run through the legendary Five Tiger Generals of Chinese lore with Ma Chao, the third in the series. The warlord, who died in 222 AD, was not well liked in his time, or by most historians since, [...]
Love and war in numismatics. Cupid and Sparta are the featured extremes on T&S Coins latest two issues. Nobody would argue that 2023 hasn't been a terrific year for new producer T&S Coins. That it's also their first year is something particularly noteworthy, although the pair behind the company, whose initials gave the company its name, [...]
The 12 Guides of Christmas: Number 6 - Fine Art Bi-Metal Max by Precious Metal Collectors Finally hitting the halfway mark with profile number six in our '12 Guides of Christmas', this time we're looking at the Singaporean producer, Precious Metal Collectors, and their extraordinary range of copper-cored coins depicting the works of the [...]
The Royal Kraków Mint celebrates a legend of the Wawel Dragon from the medieval history of its home city Dating back to at least the 13th century, the legend of Smok Wawelski (the Wawel Dragon) tells of a giant dragon that terrorised the city of Kraków, known as a man-eater, but appeased with cattle provided by [...]
MK Coins expands its ambitious The 9 Dragons series with the Azure and Torch dragons. Here is a gallery. We produced one of our Coin Series Profiles to this very ambitious range of dragon coins, to keep track of what has been an much faster rate of release than we originally expected. However, MK Coins [...]
The 12 Guides of Christmas: Number 5 - Dutch Castles Ducats by the Royal Dutch Mint Profile number five in our '12 Guides of Christmas' is now live, and features the Royal Dutch Mint's 'Dutch Castles' series of silver coins, all produced in the ducat format. This is the successor series to [...]
