The Autumn Launch season, to coincide with the Beijing Coin Fair, continues with an outstanding collection from CIT
Mint XXI launch the first tranche in its Art Gallery series of silver coins, utilising an innovative relief colouring to replicate texture
Numistrade’s most iconic bullion series, the African Ounce, adds its 19th annual issue, and for 2026, it’s the Spotted Hyena
At last! South Park hits the coin world in style, with Agoro’s latest trading coin range, with a 1 of 1 gold chaser
Mint XXI, with their Autumn Launch, bring superb additions to many silver coin series, including Celestial Beauty, and Nature Spirits
Mechanical butterflies, the Wild West, and the bomb to end all bombs feature on Silver Pours and Mint of MK’s latest innovative coins

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04Aug 25

The final issue in The Royal Mint’s four-coin Harry Potter series has just launched, and following The Winged Keys, The Black Lake, and The Flying Car, we have The Patronus, continuing the theme of featuring classic scenes from the uber-popular film series, released from 2001 to 2011. Harry Potter has been a giant in modern numismatics, as you can tell from our huge Thematic Guide, and with the franchise starting again soon, with an all-new cast, we don’t expect that to decline.

This one has a scene from the 2004 movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban, and depicts Harry casting a Patronus spell to ward off one of the most powerful entities in the Wizarding World, the Dementor. This is sure to be a popular addition to the set of four coins, considering how iconic this scene was.

The same three formats return, with the round £2, one-ounce silver coin being the only one not in the heptagonal 50 pence format that has proven such a huge hit for the mint. The two 50p coins are a coloured 8.0 gram silver, and a clean half-ounce 22kt gold (with a tiny 60 mintage), with all three struck to a proof finish. All are nicely boxed, and come with a certificate of authenticity. It’s a fine looking design for Potter fans. I’m surprised the round coin hasn’t made the transition to the mint’s bullion range, where I reckon it would do pretty well.

I’ve added this one to our huge Thematic Guide, along with Agoro’s latest pair, for your perusal.

DENOMINATION	COMPOSITION	DIMENSIONS	FINISH	MINTAGE
£2 UKP (United Kingdom)	31.21 grams of 0.999 silver	38.61 mm	Proof	760
£0.5 UKP (United Kingdom)	8.0 grams of 0.925 silver	27.30 mm	Proof, Colour	2,510
£0.5 UKP (United Kingdom)	15.50 grams of 0.9167 gold	27.30 mm	Proof	60

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31Jul 25

South Korean producer, Coin’s Today, is adding a new design to its highly varied range of stackable bullion products, with ‘Bear Trap’. This one should be a little more affordable, as it comes in at one ounce of fine silver, instead of the usual two, although it does come boxed, which most of these stackable issues don’t.

CT say this isn’t meant to be a literal bear trap, but rather brings to life the classic trading phrase, which describes a false signal of a market downturn, causing traders to sell or short the asset, only for the price to suddenly reverse and start rising. It’s a symbolic design, although there are obvious shades of an actual trap in it. There’s impressive high-relief, and the subsequent back has an incuse mirror of it. It’s antique finished, and has the composition inscribed on the side.

One of CT’s more esoteric issues, we’ll have to wait and see as to how people react to it (let me know in the comments), but the limited mintage, smaller size, and packaging, make it more appealing. Available to order now.

DENOMINATION	COMPOSITION	DIMENSIONS	FINISH	MINTAGE
Undenominated	31.1 grams 999 Ag	32.0 x 32.0 mm	Antique	1,000

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15Jul 25

Precious Metal Collector’s expansive fine art coin range, using their innovative Tri-Metal production process, continues to expand with a pair of new additions. For those not familiar with these coins, they are formed of a 750 gram zinc core, over which is laid 120 grams of copper, all of which is topped by 2.5oz of fine silver. This results in a relatively affordable coin for their huge dimensions, compared to a fully silver coin, with no visual differences.

The series is primarily classic pieces from the Renaissance Masters, and Peter Paul Rubens’ 1615 work, ‘The Tiger Hunt’, certainly fits that description. It’s a riot of colour and hugely dynamic. The obverse is beautiful as well, which you can see in our full Coin Series Profile of the range. The other is more recent (1903) and considerably more whimsical. Part of a series of 18 paintings by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, they depict dogs playing poker, and are a popular piece of pop-art these days.

An interesting pair of additions to a very impressive fine art series. After a period of constant Van Gogh works, it’s great to see so much more variety in the range of late. Available to order now.

DENOMINATION	COMPOSITION	DIMENSIONS	FINISH	MINTAGE
10,000 Francs CFA (Chad)	2.5oz 999 Ag, 750g 999 Zn, 120g 999 Cu	165.0 x 125.0 mm	Antique, Colour	2,500

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10Jun 25

After two full years at six issues per year, Germania Mint is now kicking off its third tranche of runic one-ounce silver bars with ‘Isaz’, the 13th of 24 in the series covering the runic alphabet. It’s the eleventh rune of the Elder Futhark and means “ice.” It symbolizes stillness, concentration, and the qualities of ice, such as coldness and immovability, encouraging patience and introspection.

A small shaped bar of 0.9999 silver, each rune is emblazoned on the reverse, and has a UV glow-in-the-dark treatment. Each annual set of six runes has a different shade for the UV colour, and for 2025 it’s an ice-blue colour. They have an aged look which is attractive, and the back of the bar carries the inscribed composition, and the serial number. They come in a bag with a matching rune symbol on the front, and in a box with the C.O.A. Available now.

As always, we’ve added this one to our packed Bullion Profile to the whole series, where you can see all 13 issued to date, and their respective UV colouration.

DENOMINATION	COMPOSITION	DIMENSIONS	FINISH	MINTAGE
Undenominated	31.1 g of 0.9999 silver	21.54 x 30.55 x 7.55 mm	Antique, UV ink	2,500

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LATEST SITE UPDATES

23/08/2025: COIN SERIES PROFILE – Added Gilded Horse to CIT’s Lunar Cycle profile

23/08/2025: COIN SERIES PROFILE – Added Steampunk Aviation to CIT’s Steampunk series profile

08/07/2025: THEMATIC GUIDE – Added Royal Mint Iron Maiden to Modern Music Guide

18/06/2025: LOTS OF GUIDE UPDATES See this post for more details

18/06/2025: BULLION SALES PAGE – Updated all 4 graphs of Perth & US Mint bullion charts

17/06/2025: THEMATIC GUIDE – Added multiple new issues to the NZ Mint’s Star Wars guide

15/04/2025: BULLION PROFILE – Added four new 2024 issues to Scottsdale Mint’s EC8 Profile

04/04/2025: BULLION PROFILE – Added new issues to the Scottsdale Mint summary guide

18/03/2025: BULLION PROFILE – Added two new bars to the Germania Mint Colour cast bar profile

13/03/2025: THEMATIC GUIDE – Added multiple new releases to Marvel Comics Thematic Guide

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We’re off for the second week of our summer holiday, back on 01 October

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We're off for the second week of our summer holiday, back on 01 October I had a week off in July, and now the time has come for the second. We'll be back on 01 October, hopefully refreshed, and with new stuff. You might notice a [...]