More producers are dipping their toes into the flourishing bullion market, utilising some of the fine designs from their past numismatic releases as a basis. We love that idea, as the resulting bullion coins tend to offer high standards of appearance not usually associated with the market. The latest to jump in is T & S Coin, who have an extensive range of high-relief two-ounce silver coins in their portfolio, built up over the last few years.

For their debut, they’ve chosen a perennial theme – pirates! Released in 2024, Treasure Island was a coin we really liked on its debut, and even for a two-ounce coin, it was packed with detail (shown above). While the new bullion variant has eschewed the antique-finish, high-relief, and gilded highlights of the original, it’s lost nothing of its charm, and remains an impressively detailed example of the type. Even the gorgeous obverse design, used in similar form across their entire range, returns.

Treasure Island is a beloved classic, well known around the globe, and we think this terrific design will have huge appeal as a result. It’s a one-ounce coin with a mintage capped at an optimal 10,000 pieces, and should be available to pre-order now. I for one, can’t wait to see this in hand, and I reckon it will photograph well.

Tudor Beast’s is coming to an end with the debut of the tenth design in this terrific heraldic series based on the statues sited on the Moat Bridge of Hampton Court Palace. The were commissioned by Henry VIII to celebrate his union with Jane Seymour, his third wife, and are full of the symbolism that drove politics of the time. The coins are all designed by David Lawrence, who we think has done a fine job with them. To be clear, while the Royal Dragon is the tenth and final design in this series, it’s actually only the ninth bullion version, as the first release, the Seymour Panther, has yet to be released in this form. We expect that later this year.

The Royal Dragon has been a symbol of Wales for centuries, but also the Tudor Family going back to Henry VIII’s great-grandfather, Sir Owen Tudor. It was Henry VII that adopted the dragon after his defeat of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth, becoming the first Welsh monarch of England, and causing the death of the last English monarch to fall in battle.

The same five formats are offered, with two in silver (2 & 10oz), two in gold (1/4 & 1oz), and a 1oz platinum. The Royal Mint has a fine grasp of heraldic themes on coins, possibly the best in the world, and series like Tudor Beast’s, and its Queens Beast’s predecessor, are ample proof of that. As well as the bullion coins, there’s a great selection of great-looking proof versions, which you can see in our newly refreshed Coin Series Profile to the range.

We’ve already covered the latest 2026 Germania bullion range, including many of our own images of sample coins, but Germania Mint are not finished with it, launching, for the first time, a whole range of six fractionals. They share the same design, but the three silver, and three gold coins are likely a result of the inexorable increase in the price of these precious metals.

While Lady Germania has regularly appeared in 2oz, 10oz, and 1kg weights, those appear to have been replaced by 1/10, 1/4, and 1/2 ounce sizes. Gold in those weights is long overdue, we think, but silver in the same weights is more of a surprise. Each of the coins comes mounted in an attractively themed blistercard, which we like here. Overall, a sensible, and very welcome addition.

Copper is also represented for the first time, with a half-ounce coin. Unlike the Bodvar copper bullion, which came as a one-ounce coin, Germania is not sold encapsulated with a certificate, and nor does it have a mintage cap. Instead, these are purchased in a bulk bag containing 1,000 coins. It’s an unusual departure from their usual modus operandi, and this sales method seems more suited to circulating currency, which this isn’t. The coin, like the rest of the range more accurately described as an undenominated round, is actually very nice in hand, but I’d rather have seen them replace the big silver coins with copper versions, so the collectors focused on design don’t miss out on the new reality of the one-ounce coin being the biggest, rather than the smallest, of the silver coins. I’d be interested to see comments on it.