With news that the Isle of Man Angel bullion coin was to be no more, we figured that the Pobjoy Mint would look elsewhere amongst its vast repertoire of issuing nations to develop an alternative. It’s happened far quicker than we imagined and the mint is back with an all new silver bullion coin issued for the British Virgin Islands. The BVI is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean. Over fifty islands make up the territory, only around 15 of which have significant inhabitation. Significant being a relative term, the 28,000 population of the BVI is little more than half the mintage of this new coin…

Like the aforementioned Manx Angel, this new coin is struck in 0.999 silver to a reverse-proof finish. Mintage is limited to just 50,000 making it one of the rarer bullion coins out there. Similarly to some other bullion coins, they are sold individually heat-sealed in a clear pack.

The design is potentially a fine one even though we’re looking at artwork instead of an actual coin (we hopefully have a sample coming to photograph). Going with the traditional British classical look, it depicts ancient Greek mythology, in this case the winged horse Pegasus being led by the Goddess Athena, carrying a spear. This kind of look is always popular on coins and this seems like it could be very well liked. We think it’s better than the Angel it is replacing.

Available to buy from 03 October, we’d imagine prices will be in the same ballpark as the preceding reverse-proof Angel coin. More next week when we’ll hopefully have some coin images up.