Growing Up: Lions 5 oz edition (2022 Numiscollect)

By |2022-10-05T12:49:52+01:00October 5th, 2022|Categories: Quicklooks, Nature, Silver, Numiscollect, Tanzania|

A new series that debuted at the 2021 World Money Fair in Berlin, 'Growing Up' was a neat concept, displaying an animal as a fully grown adult on the reverse face, and in younger form on the obverse. We've always preferred coins that employ both faces to their full potential, and this was one of those. That debut coin [...]

Pegasus joins the Griffin and the Chimera in Numiscollect’s high-relief ‘Mythical Creatures’ lineup of silver coins

By |2022-01-10T13:47:18+00:00January 10th, 2022|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Silver, Numiscollect, Tanzania|

Pegasus joins the Griffin and the Chimera in Numiscollect's high-relief 'Mythical Creatures' lineup of silver coins It was way back in 2018 that Numiscollect debuted its own 'Mythical Creatures' range of silver coins, employing Smartminted high-relief to bring these legendary beasts of old to life. There were two issues that year, the Griffin, and the Chimera, [...]

The greatest seaborne assault in history was 75 years ago today. A look at the coins issued to mark it.

By |2019-06-07T07:42:05+01:00June 6th, 2019|Categories: History, Coloured, Military, Gilded, Gold, Silver, Canada, France, Gibraltar, Niue Island, Tanzania, United Kingdom|

The greatest seaborne assault in history was 75 years ago today. A look at the coins issued to mark it. Codenamed Operation Neptune, the largest seaborne invasion in history and the start of Operation Overlord took place on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 when a huge Allied force began the liberation of German-occupied [...]

Tanzanian Rare Wildlife two-ounce silver coin series continues with the Lion in high relief

By |2018-05-17T00:57:41+01:00May 16th, 2018|Categories: Coloured, Nature, Silver, Numiscollect, Tanzania|

Tanzanian Rare Wildlife two-ounce silver coin series continues with the Lion in high relief While the Rare Wildlife series has ostensibly been running for five issues, we think it fair to say that in its current form the series launched in 2016. That would make the coin we're looking at today the [...]

Numiscollect debuts its new mythological animal silver coin series with the Chimera

By |2017-12-15T21:54:00+00:00December 15th, 2017|Categories: Art & Literature, Silver, Numiscollect, Tanzania|

Numiscollect debuts its new mythological animal silver coin series with the Chimera One of the most popular themes in modern commemorative coins over the last couple of years has, with little doubt, been the world of ancient mythology. A deep wellspring of fantastical creatures, gods and heroes has given rise to a [...]

CIT bring the new banknote style coin format to gold with a Tanzanian Big Five set

By |2018-02-11T18:18:22+00:00November 21st, 2017|Categories: Banknote / Foil, Gold, Nature, CIT Coin Invest, Tanzania|

CIT bring the new banknote style coin format to gold with a Tanzanian Big Five set Following on from the successful launch of their silver Skyline Dollars, Coin Invest Trust have taken the coin note concept into our other favourite precious metal – gold. Managing to stretch to the same cavernous 150 [...]

Numiscollect continues its Rare Wildlife series with the Royal Bengal Tiger proof silver coin

By |2017-01-29T23:45:56+00:00January 29th, 2017|Categories: Coloured, Silver, Numiscollect, Tanzania|

Numiscollect continues its Rare Wildlife series with the same format as 2016 Black Panther Last July, Dutch coin producer Numiscollect launched a new coin in its Rare Animals series that differed greatly from the three coins that preceded it. Originally produced in a diamond-shaped format, the 2016 coin changed that completely by [...]

King of the elephant coins? Numiscollects latest stakes its claim

By |2016-11-05T06:30:28+00:00September 11th, 2016|Categories: Nature, Silver, Numiscollect, Tanzania|

King of the elephant coins? Numiscollects latest stakes its claim Despite all the attention being focused on the art-architectural, ancient gods and domed coins of late, a perennial favourite always kicks up its fair share of impressive numismatics and likely will always continue to do so. That favourite is [...]

Innovative colouring technique showcased on new silver Black Panther coin

By |2016-11-05T06:30:39+00:00July 30th, 2016|Categories: Coloured, Nature, Silver, Numiscollect, Tanzania|

Jaguars and Leopards are some of the most beautiful and impressive predators on the planet. Powerful and elegant creatures, they tend to hunt at night which makes the subject of this new coin from Numiscollect all the more frightening. Melanistic colour variations are fairly common in the animal world and for these big cats, black is [...]

WMF 2016 CIT Week: Globe-trotting 3D Butterfly series heads off to the African state of Tanzania

By |2016-11-05T06:31:15+00:00February 16th, 2016|Categories: Nature, Inserts, Silver, CIT Coin Invest, Tanzania|

Our look at Coin Invest Trust's release run at the World Money fair in Berlin takes us back to a long-running series that's proven very popular since the first coin appeared back in 2011, Butterflies in 3D. This range is a little different from the norm in that the adornment that gives the coin its name [...]

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