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June, 2023

After employing mosaics and jigsaw puzzles to impart texture to fine art, Powercoin are back with embroidery for their latest coin

By |2023-06-14T10:41:27+01:00June 14th, 2023|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Palau, Powercoin|

After employing mosaics and jigsaw puzzles to impart texture to fine art, Powercoin are back with embroidery for their latest coin One of the more innovative producers of modern collectible coins operating today, Rome-based Powercoin have issued some clever coins over the last decade. Chief amongst them are their popular textured fine art coins, more commonly known as Micropuzzle Treasures, and Micromosaic Passion, the former using a jigsaw puzzle texture, [...]

March, 2023

The 18th century world of Chinese Tangram puzzles come to numismatics with Art Mint’s playable silver coin

By |2023-03-13T20:19:00+00:00March 13th, 2023|Categories: Coloured, Art Mint, Inserts, Sport, Silver, Niue Island|

The 18th century world of Chinese Tangram puzzles come to numismatics with Art Mint's playable silver coin Consisting of seven flat polygonal pieces, tangram is what is called a 'dissection puzzle' - one whose pieces can be recombined in different ways to form new shapes. Popularised in late-18th century China, although perhaps having its origins as early as the 11th century Song Dynasty, it rapidly spread to the West through the late [...]

October, 2022

Numiartis and Precious Metal Collectors add to their puzzle coin ranges with new designs for art and science

By |2022-10-18T15:18:34+01:00October 18th, 2022|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Nature, Silver, Cameroon, Chad, Numiartis, Precious Metal Collectors|

Numiartis and Precious Metal Collectors add to their puzzle coin ranges with new designs for art and science The puzzle coin genre is quite new, kicked off at about the same time by both Powercoin and Numiartis, and since also taken up by Precious Metal Collectors. Powercoin finished up their series, although recently revisited it with a five-ounce special, but now the other two have just announced new additions to their [...]

September, 2022

Powercoin revisits its hit Micropuzzle Treasures series with a five-ounce special of Michaelangelo’s Creation of Adam

By |2022-09-16T22:05:38+01:00September 16th, 2022|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, CIT Coin Invest, Palau, Powercoin|

Powercoin revisits its hit Micropuzzle Treasures series with a five-ounce special of Michaelangelo's Creation of Adam After five coins, Powercoin's 'Micropuzzle Treasure' series drew with a close with the release based on 'Doni Tondo', a fresco by Renaissance legend, Michaelangelo Buonarrotti. Michaelangelo is back for this new, larger issue, a five-ounce special edition, sporting an increase in diameter from 65 to 80 mm. While Doni Tondo isn't one of the most [...]

Moon Puzzle silver coin (2023 Precious Metal Collectors)

By |2022-09-15T20:57:00+01:00September 15th, 2022|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Nature, Silver, Chad, Precious Metal Collectors|

Precious Metal Collectors have added a second coin to their planetary take on puzzle coins, with the Moon. This joins the earlier 'Earth' puzzle coin, which we covered in April, along with a couple of the mints other space-orientated issues. This is a chunky, 60 mm diameter coin of just one-ounce weight. It's silver, so as many of you may have guessed, this is a coin using PMC's clever Bi-Metal Max [...]

June, 2022

Powercoin’s hit ‘Micropuzzle Treasures’ series concludes with the only finished panel painting by Michaelangelo, ‘Doni Tondo’

By |2022-06-22T10:48:04+01:00June 17th, 2022|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, CIT Coin Invest, Palau, Powercoin|

Powercoin's hit 'Micropuzzle Treasures' series concludes with the only finished panel painting by Michaelangelo, 'Doni Tondo' If aftermarket prices are any indicator, Powercoin's 'Micropuzzle Treasures' series has been something of a hit over the last few years. These three-ounce silver coins take a famous piece of art, and represent it as an incomplete jigsaw puzzle. It sounds simple, but realising the small, sharply-defined pieces in struck metal is no easy [...]

March, 2022

Powercoin’s Bengal Tiger adds building blocks to join puzzles and mosaic as inspirations for eclectic coin designs

By |2022-03-16T14:34:07+00:00March 16th, 2022|Categories: Coloured, Nature, Silver, Palau, Powercoin|

Powercoin's Bengal Tiger adds building blocks to join puzzles and mosaic as inspirations for eclectic coin designs We've always admired Powercoin's knack of finding unusual ways to feature popular objects on silver coins, especially their use of mosaic and puzzles to depict fine art, often from lesser-known artists. Those two series have leaned heavily on smartminting's ability to enable fine, well-defined detail, but the proprietary CIT/BH Mayer tech is also [...]

December, 2021

Monet liked water lillies and painted hundreds of them. Numiartis picks a fine one for their latest puzzle coin

By |2021-12-01T21:22:08+00:00December 1st, 2021|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Cameroon, Numiartis|

Monet liked water lillies and painted hundreds of them. Numiartis picks a fine one for their latest puzzle coin Undoubtedly one of the world's great painters, Oscar-Claude Monet was the French painter that helped found, and gave the name to, the impressionist art movement. Impressionism has, as its central philosophy, the idea that art should take human perception, especially of nature, as a defining quality. They're almost like snapshots, taking into [...]

September, 2021

Hokusai’s iconic Japanese woodcut print ‘Great Wave off Kanagawa’ is the latest copper/silver micropuzzle coin

By |2021-09-03T12:59:51+01:00September 3rd, 2021|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Copper, Silver, Niue Island, World Coin Appreciation|

Hokusai's iconic Japanese woodcut print 'Great Wave off Kanagawa' is the latest copper/silver micropuzzle coin We're big fans of Powercoin's Micropuzzle Treasure series, which employed Smartminting to recreate an unfinished puzzle of a piece of art. Now four coins old, it was joined by a similar series from Numiartis that has seen two releases to date. Both series do have a single flaw, however. At three ounces of silver with small [...]

July, 2021

Powercoin’s Micropuzzle Treasures returns with a vibrant work by Belarusian modern impressionist painter, Leonid Afremov

By |2021-07-22T04:32:55+01:00July 22nd, 2021|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, CIT Coin Invest, Palau, Powercoin|

Powercoin's Micropuzzle Treasures returns with a vibrant work by Belarusian modern impressionist painter, Leonid Afremov Back with a second release this year, although this is a 2022 dated coin, Powercoin's much admired 'Micropuzzle Treasures' ditches the usual classics for a modern impressionist painter. Leonid Afremov was a Belarusian artist whoe migrated to Cancun in Mexico via Israel, and the United States, creating a distinctly unique visual style.While the name of the [...]

June, 2021

World Coin Appreciation brings the micropuzzle coin concept to the affordable market with a striking copper/silver hybrid

By |2021-06-21T20:06:22+01:00June 14th, 2021|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Copper, Silver, Niue Island, World Coin Appreciation|

World Coin Appreciation brings the micropuzzle coin concept to the affordable market with a striking copper/silver hybrid It was Powercoin that debuted the micropuzzle style of coin design. Take a famous piece of art and make it look like a part-completed puzzle through the judicious use of fine detail minting. It sounds like something that CIT/BH Mayer's proprietary smartminting technology was designed for, and Powercoin employed it to full effect. Very [...]

Numiartis’ puzzle coin series returns with John Collier’s 19th century painting of the iconic tale of Lady Godiva

By |2021-12-01T21:09:28+00:00June 1st, 2021|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Cameroon, Numiartis|

Numiartis' puzzle coin series returns with John Collier's 19th century painting of the iconic tale of Lady Godiva Wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, Lady Godiva became an icon because of the legend that she rode naked on horseback through the streets of Coventry. With her modestry only maintained through the judicious placement of her long flowing hair, she rode her horse to get remission from the oppressive taxes her husband [...]

February, 2021

Reverie by Mucha is the latest in Powercoins hit Micropuzzle Treasures silver coin series

By |2021-02-24T18:54:36+00:00February 24th, 2021|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, CIT Coin Invest, Palau, Powercoin|

Reverie by Mucha is the latest in Powercoins hit Micropuzzle Treasures silver coin series Powercoins hugely popular Micropuzzle Treasure art-themed series is back with a third installment, and it's an artist I don't remember seeing on a coin before, Alfons Mucha. A member of the Art Nouveau movement, he has a unique style and makes a refreshing change from the usual Leonardo or Klimt paining.As with Renoir's 'Two Sisters' and Van Gogh's [...]

May, 2020

Micropuzzles are back with the second from Powercoin featuring Renoir’s ‘Two Sisters’

By |2020-05-19T20:35:47+01:00May 19th, 2020|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, CIT Coin Invest, Palau, Powercoin|

Micromosiac Passion was an unusual concept for a series at first glance. If you want proof positive that you don't need gimmickry to come up with something clever and beautiful, the Powercoin series was it. Ostensibly a cleanly struck coin with some colour, something hardly rare these days, it was the execution that took them to another level.Employing CIT & BH Mayer's awesome Smartminting technology, that coin range exhibited some superbly defined minting. Following last [...]

January, 2020

Gustav Klimt’s legendary masterpiece ‘The Kiss’ becomes a jigsaw puzzle on Numiartis’ latest coin

By |2020-01-16T15:14:25+00:00January 16th, 2020|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Cameroon, Numiartis|

Gustav Klimt's legendary masterpiece 'The Kiss', becomes a jigsaw puzzle on Numiartis' latest coin Gustav Klimt has seen a huge resurgence in the popularity of his work since becoming persona non grata in the middle of the 20th century. As the person making Klimts work socially unacceptable was Adolf Hitler, we can safely assume the problem wasn't the artwork... The last few years has also seen a fine selection [...]

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