News & Blog

Your collection and you AT the recent Midland Coin Fair on March 8, we met a number of people who told us they were just starting out in the hobby. Hard on the heels of the London Coin Fair where we saw so many children and young people (see last month’s “Editorial Comment”) getting interested...

The Harrogate Coin Fair is coming! Taking place over the weekend of Friday, March 27 - Saturday, March 28, it's once again being held at The Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate, HG1 2SR. The fair is open from 10am to 5pm on Friday and 10.00 am to 3pm on Saturday and there will be lots of dealers in...

The medal behind the man THIS month’s “Editorial” isn’t so much a “comment” as a request, a plea if you will. We are incredibly lucky here at MEDAL NEWS that so many people want to write for us. We have a large number of articles in the “queue”, enough, I think, to last us until summer of next...

Here’s to the future AT the recent London Coin Fair (LCF) in Hammersmith on February 7, I was struck by how many young people were in the room, and by young people I don’t mean collectors in their 20s, I mean children aged from 4–11. They were, of course, there with their parents, grandparents...

A pricing predicament BACK in November’s Editorial Comment, I spoke of the ever-increasing price of precious metals, in particular silver, and asked whether or not that would lead to the scrapping of some medals as we last saw in the late 1970s. This month’s “News & Views” shows that yes, we are...

Carry on collecting THE big news at the start of 2026 has to be the continued strength of the metal markets, with all three of the “biggies” (gold, platinum and silver) seeing strong post-Christmas gains. Silver, in particular, has shot up. Now, as regular readers will know, we never really talk...