Category Archives: Gibraltar Coins

Final Coin in World of David Walliams Coin Series Features Grandpa’s Great Escape

Celebrating the Work of International Best-Selling Children’s Author David Walliams Seventh and final release in seven-coin series Available in Cupro Nickel Diamond Finish Colored 50p presented in a special pack Also Produced in Colored Proof Sterling Silver with Certificate Low Issue Limit of 7,500 in Cupro Nickel and 1,999 in Silver Pobjoy Mint is excited […]

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Sixth Coin in World of David Walliams Coin Series Features Awful Auntie

Celebrating the Work of International Best-Selling Children’s Author David Walliams Sixth release in seven-coin series Available in Cupro Nickel Diamond Finish Colored 50p presented in a special pack Also Produced in Colored Proof Sterling Silver with Certificate Low Issue Limit of 7,500 in Cupro Nickel and 1,999 in Silver Pobjoy Mint is excited to announce […]

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Fifth Coin in World of David Walliams Coin Series Features Ratburger

Celebrating the Work of International Best-Selling Children’s Author David Walliams Fifth release in seven-coin series Available in Cupro Nickel Diamond Finish Colored 50p presented in a special pack Also Produced in Colored Proof Sterling Silver with Certificate Low Issue Limit of 7,500 in Cupro Nickel and 1,999 in Silver Pobjoy Mint is excited to announce […]

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Third Coin in World of David Walliams Coin Series Features Billionaire Boy

Celebrating the Work of International Best-Selling Children’s Author David Walliams Third release in seven-coin series Available in Cupro Nickel Diamond Finish Colored 50p presented in a special pack Also Produced in Colored Proof Sterling Silver with Certificate Low Issue Limit of 7,500 in Cupro Nickel and 1,999 in Silver Pobjoy Mint is excited to announce […]

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World of David Walliams 50p Coin Series Features The Boy in the Dress

Celebrating the work of international best-selling children’s author David Walliams First release of a seven-coin series features The Boy in the Dress Available in Cupro Nickel Diamond Finish colored 50p presented in a special pack Also produced in colored Proof Sterling Silver with certificate Low issue limit of 7,500 in Cupro Nickel and 1,999 in […]

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Second Coin in World of David Walliams 50p Coin Series Features Mr. Stink

Celebrating the Work of International Best-Selling Children’s Author David Walliams Second release in seven-coin series Available in Cupro Nickel Diamond Finish Coloured 50p presented in a special pack Also Produced in Colored Proof Sterling Silver with Certificate Low Issue Limit of 7,500 in Cupro Nickel and 1,999 in Silver Pobjoy Mint is excited to announce […]

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Ancient Coins – Elephants on Ancient Coinage

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz …..   STRONG, INTELLIGENT AND long-lived – yet surprisingly gentle – elephants have long exerted a powerful hold over the human imagination. Prehistoric cave paintings depict elephants and their extinct cousins, the wooly mammoth and mastodon. Ivory from elephant tusks was a precious raw material in the ancient […]

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Celebrate the Holidays With New 50p Featuring Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas

Father ChristmasTM is a short animated film based on two books written by Raymond Briggs: Father Christmas and Father Christmas Goes on Holiday, published in 1973 and 1975, respectively. Father Christmas in these publications is a different interpretation of the stereotypical character. He still looks like the Santa we all know and love with his […]

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Third Coin in Gibraltar Primates Series Features Red Colobus Monkey

Third 50 pence of a four-coin set featuring Primates Coins produced in Cupro Nickel Diamond Finish and in color to bring the Primates to life Low mintage of 7,500 Special magnetic collector’s album to hold all four coins available separately The Rock of Gibraltar is one of the Pillars of Hercules, the peninsulas that flank […]

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Second in Series of Gibraltar 50p Primate Coins Features Chimpanzee

Second 50 pence of a four-coin set featuring Primates Coins produced in Cupro Nickel Diamond Finish and in color to bring the Primates to life Low mintage of 7,500 Special magnetic collector’s album to hold all four coins will be available separately! The Rock of Gibraltar is one of the Pillars of Hercules, the peninsulas […]

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New Series of Gibraltar 50p Coins Feature Only Wild Monkeys in Europe

First 50 pence of a four-coin set featuring primates Coins produced in Cupro Nickel Diamond Finish and in color to bring the primates to life Low mintage of 7,500 Special magnetic collector’s album to hold all four coins will be available separately The Rock of Gibraltar is one of the Pillars of Hercules, the peninsulas […]

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Counterfeit Coin Detection: US Gold 1911-D Quarter Eagle

Counterfeit 1911-D Quarter Eagle by Max Spiegel, NGC Numismatic Researcher The 1911-D is the key Indian Head quarter eagle. Read about two unusual alterations and how NGC experts discovered  these two type of counterfeits. Chased Mintmark There are a number of methods used by counterfeiters to add a mintmark to a coin, but probably the […]

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Ancient Coins – How Elephants were Depicted on Ancient Coinage

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz …. STRONG, INTELLIGENT AND LONG-LIVED – yet surprisingly gentle – elephants have long exerted a powerful hold over the human imagination. Prehistoric cave paintings depict elephants and their extinct cousins, the wooly mammoth and mastodon. Ivory from elephant tusks was a precious raw material in the ancient world […]

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COLLECTING SILVER – Add Silver to your Gift List this Year

By Al Doyle for CoinWeek…. It’s that time of year again. What can you buy that is unique, enduring and reasonably priced for those on your gift list? One word – silver – immediately comes to mind. Collectors and bullion investors often like to give silver coins, rounds and bars to others, and that is a timely gift […]

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Cool Coins! 2016 Episode 5 – 4K Video

Our fifth episode of CoinWeek’s Cool Coins! for 2016 ups the ante! We’ve got scarce medals, scarcer U.S. pattern coins, and a previously-unpublished ancient gold coin. Exonumia dealer Paul Cunningham always brings with him an unusual and interesting assortment of tokens and medals. When looking through his offerings, we noticed three art deco medals commemorating Detroit automaker General […]

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Cool Coins! 2016 Episode 5 – 4K Video

Our fifth episode of CoinWeek’s Cool Coins! for 2016 ups the ante! We’ve got scarce medals, scarcer U.S. pattern coins, and a previously unpublished ancient gold coin. Exonumia dealer Paul Cunningham always brings with him an unusual and interesting assortment of tokens and medals. When looking through his offerings, we noticed three art deco medals commemorating Detroit automaker […]

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The Melissa Silver Coin of Ephesus

The 203 B.C. to 133 B.C. Ephesus Silver Drachm with Bee obverse, Stag and Palm Reverse The Coin The first coins of Ephesus featured Bees (Melissae in Greek), dating to as early as 600 B.C.!  This coin was minted sometime in the 2nd Century B.C., estimated 202  to 133 B.C.  The Coin features an artistic […]

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