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June, 2022

Cao Cao continues the Carpathian Mint’s numismatic journey through the Chinese epic, ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’

By |2022-11-16T03:11:53+00:00June 27th, 2022|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Gilded, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|

Cao Cao continues the Carpathian Mint's numismatic journey through the Chinese epic, 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' The 14th century Chinese novel, 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' has inspired quite a few coins over the last few years, including some super designs from Pela Coins, the Mint of Gdańsk, Mint XXI, and Numiartis. It's to the first of those producers, Pela, that we go for this new issue, the fourth [...]

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March, 2022

Numiartis continues its numismatic journey through Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with the second of the five Tiger Generals

By |2022-03-31T14:58:06+01:00March 31st, 2022|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Gilded, Silver, Niue Island, Numiartis|

Numiartis continues its numismatic journey through Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with the second of the five Tiger Generals We seem to be on a run of new releases from some of the finer producers in the market at the moment, and that continues with the second release in German producer Numiartis' Chinese mythology themed series, 'Five Tiger Generals'. The launch coin debuted in September 2020 and featured Guan Yu. This [...]

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December, 2020

The Two Qiao’s are the third figures in the beautiful ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’ inspired silver coin series

By |2020-12-04T15:05:14+00:00December 4th, 2020|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, Coloured, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|

The Two Qiao's are the third figures in the beautiful 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' inspired silver coin series Chinese mythology seems to have taken over from the Greek, Roman and Norse gods as the subject of choice in the expansive world of ancient myths and legends coins. A distinctive visual style and a cast relatively unknown outside of Asia, has meant they've become very popular with collectors. One of the early [...]

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December, 2023

Numiartis continues its numismatic biography of the Five Tiger Generals, with the controversial Ma Chao

By |2023-12-20T16:39:19+00:00December 20th, 2023|Categories: Culture, History, Silver, Niue Island, Numiartis|

Numiartis continues its numismatic biography of the Five Tiger Generals, with the controversial Ma Chao Numiartis continues its run through the legendary Five Tiger Generals of Chinese lore with Ma Chao, the third in the series. The warlord, who died in 222 AD, was not well liked in his time, or by most historians since, and he was considered a cruel and partisan figure. Hardly surprising given be various betrayals, [...]

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May, 2023

The Carpathian Mint brings the warrior queen, Boudica, and the swashbuckling D’Artagnan to numismatic life

By |2023-05-11T10:05:52+01:00May 11th, 2023|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Silver, Carpathian Mint, Niue Island|

The Carpathian Mint brings the warrior queen, Boudica, and the swashbuckling D'Artagnan to numismatic life Two new issues from the Carpathian Mint represent the start of a new series, and the continuation of an existing one. Both feature this producer's favourite format, the two-ounce, rimless, high-relief, antiqued one popularised by the Mint of Poland. It's a great choice, striking a good balance between affordability, and having enough metal to strike impressive [...]

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June, 2022

Sun Wukong – Little Monkey King (2023 Precious Metal Collectors)

By |2022-06-29T16:34:13+01:00June 29th, 2022|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Chad, Precious Metal Collectors|

While the New Zealand Mint's Chibi series remains the king of the hill, a few other producers have released coins that are similar in concept, but having their own style. LPM's Street Fighter coins, The Coin Company's movie coins, and Crown Mint's Marvel issues are all examples of shaped character coins, and as you can see, most are themed around popular culture franchises.Enter Precious Metal Collectors with something a little different. There's been a [...]

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May, 2022

World exclusive! The Carpathian Mint launches, with a fine Jules Verne inspired, “Around the World in 80 Days” silver coin

By |2022-05-24T10:16:33+01:00May 24th, 2022|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Carpathian Mint, Niue Island|

World exclusive! The Carpathian Mint launches, with a fine Jules Verne inspired, "Around the World in 80 Days" silver coin Born of a collaboration between Silver Coins Europe, and Pela Coins, the Carpathian Mint launches today, with its first new coin release. There's certainly a great heritage between these two producers. Pela are responsible for many fine designs, like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and some superb space-themed coins, amongst others, [...]

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October, 2020

Mint XXI returns to its ‘Warriors of Ancient China’ series for a second historical legend, Zhang Fei

By |2020-10-28T17:53:15+00:00October 28th, 2020|Categories: Culture, History, Gilded, Silver, MintXXI, Niue Island|

Mint XXI returns to its 'Warriors of Ancient China' series for a second historical legend, Zhang Fei What do you get when one of the best coin producers working today dives into one of the more popular subjects? When the producer is Mint XXI and the subject is ancient myths and legends, you get a coin as striking as this one. The second in their 'Warriors of Ancient China' series, Zhang Fei [...]

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September, 2020

China’s epic Five Tiger Generals is the subject of an equally epic new silver coin series from Numiartis

By |2020-09-25T15:51:14+01:00September 25th, 2020|Categories: Culture, History, Gilded, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island, Numiartis|

China's epic Five Tiger Generals is the subject of an equally epic new silver coin series from Numiartis The early signs of post-Covid19 (season 1) activity continue in the coin worldsancient world themed issues with the latest release from Numiartis. Producers, in collaboration with CIT/BH Mayer or the Mint of Poland, of some quite beautiful coins, including the Ares coin that arguably kicked off this new renaissance, a new debut is [...]

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Una and the Lion, a rousing symbol of the Victorian British Empire is given a refresh on St Helena’s new bullion coin

By |2020-09-11T00:01:03+01:00September 11th, 2020|Categories: Culture, Bullion, Silver, East India Company, St Helena|

Una and the Lion, a rousing symbol of the Victorian British Empire is given a refresh on St Helena's new bullion coin Designed by Glyn Davies and issued by the East India Company last year, a modern refresh of that classic 19th century icon of empire, Una and the Lion, hit the market and was a hit here at AgAuNEWS. We only covered the range of three gold proof coins, but [...]

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July, 2020

PMC’s large and stunning ‘Nine Worthies’ follows up the debut Hector of Troy with Joshua & King Arthur

By |2020-07-21T10:47:54+01:00July 21st, 2020|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Silver, Niue Island, Precious Metal Collectors|

Singapore-based producer, Precious Metal Collectors (PMC) have impressed us over the last year with a very impressive range of copper-cored silver coins. What these are is pretty simple in theory. You take an amount of silver, in this case two ounces, and instead of just strking a design into it as you would a normal coin, the silver is 'wrapped around a much larger (11.5 oz) copper planchet. Basically, the silver is a relatively thick [...]

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February, 2020

Guan Yu is the first of the ‘Chinese Heroes’ in a stunning new series from the Mint of Poland

By |2020-02-12T21:08:07+00:00February 12th, 2020|Categories: History, Gilded, People, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|

Guan Yu is the first of the 'Chinese Heroes' in a stunning new series from the Mint of Poland Early indicators suggest it is possible that 2020 will see Chinese ancient history and mythology take centre stage in quite a few new coin issues. We've had a few years in which the gods and legends of the major ancient civilisations of Europe have dominated coin designs in this genre, [...]

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November, 2019

PMC wraps 2oz of silver around a large copper core for an innovative Hector: The Nine Worthies debut

By |2019-11-23T01:40:02+00:00November 23rd, 2019|Categories: Art & Literature, History, Silver, Niue Island, Precious Metal Collectors|

PMC wraps 2oz of silver around a large copper core for an innovative Hector: The Nine Worthies debut Just like their 96 Rat lunar coin that we covered earlier this month, Precious Metal Collectors (PMC) have jumped into a genre that is already packed to the rafters with new issues on a regular basis, and just like that coin, they've done so with something a bit different. There will [...]

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Exclusive! Striking Lyu Bu warlord coin follows Zhao Yun in the Mint of Polands China-only coin series bringing Ancient Chinese warriors to life

By |2019-11-06T00:58:16+00:00November 6th, 2019|Categories: History, Gilded, People, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|

Exclusive! Striking Lyu Bu warlord coin follows Zhao Yun in the Mint of Polands China-only coin series bringing Ancient Chinese warriors to life The cause of much frustration with collectors of the Mint of Poland's now iconic 2oz ancient world coins, Zhao Yun was a beautiful coin that was only distributed within China, although we noticed a few slipping out to some Western dealers after the fact. Very difficult [...]

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October, 2019

Sixteenth century classic Una & the Lion celebrates Queen Victoria’s bicentenary with new gold coin

By |2019-10-24T19:59:08+01:00October 24th, 2019|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, Gold, East India Company, St Helena|

Sixteenth century classic Una & the Lion celebrates Queen Victoria's bicentenary with new gold coin First published in 1590 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser is an English epic poem - especially epic in the sense of its length as it is one of the longest poems ever written in the English language. Spread over six books, the latter three published in [...]

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