Mythical Creatures, Coins Today's shaped silver series, continues with the three-headed fido, Cerberus The shaped two-ounce silver range, Mythical Beast's, continues with the addition of a third release in the series. Cerberus, the three-headed dog with a serpents tail, that in Greek mythology, guarded the entrance to the underworld to prevent the dead from leaving. Also [...]
Two fine producers, the Lithuanian Mint, and Le Grand Mint, team up for a high-relief depiction of the four seasons Spring, summer, autumn and winter - the four seasons that make up the cycle of our planet - have long been a popular trope in the artistic world, and numismatics are no different. The latest offering [...]
T & S Coin returns to its Treasure Island pirate theme with an otherwordly Black Diamond design A perpetual favourite in modern culture, pirates, particularly the ships the most famous of them used to ply their trade, also have become a regular part of the numismatic calendar. One of the most inventive of them has been T [...]
CIT's first big launch of 2025 impresses, with geology, nature, fantasy, and the cataclysm of Pompeii, adorning new coins One of the most anticipated launch tranches on the numismatic calendar, CIT's Winter Launch for the World Money Fair in Berlin, is now upon us. We expect a wide selection of different styles and themes, and [...]
Cast silver weapons coins reach new lengths with MDM's five-ounce silver trident straight from Neptune's hand We've seen some fine cast silver weapons of late, emanating from South Korean producer, Coins Today, and now German producer, MDM Wholesale is joining in with one of their own. There are some significant differences, however, with MDM's offering being [...]
It finally happened! Scottsdale Mint concludes its epic ten-year, sixty coin journey through Gustave Dore's biblical woodcuts The day has finally arrived! Scottsdale Mint has issued the final two coins in what has been an epic range of coins. Launched in 2015, Biblical Series was touted as a sixty-coin, decade long program, and I must admit, [...]
Another newish release in Germania Mint's 2oz coloured cast bar program is this beautiful bar adorned with the art of Polish experimental photographer, Maciej Mańkowski. This artist uses daggeography, which, through the mix of oxidising and colouration, gives an intensely shiny backdrop to the image. The bar is called Butterfly I, and is a beautiful, really showing off [...]
The latest release from Asturmint as part of the Germania Mint's 2oz coloured cast bar program is this superb debut issue in The Outer Space series. Called The Astronaut, it depicts a futuristic human astronaut on an alien planet, another planet filling the sky because of its proximity. Terrific artwork, which bodes well for a series with [...]
A Norse maiden, a naval captain, a lucky pussy, and an undead pope, means it can only be Mint of MK One of the most innovative and quirky producers out there, Mint of MK is also quite prolific, regularly releasing a coin every week or so, rather than in tranches. They keep us busy here, and [...]
Numiscollect's innovative Dot Art & Pointillism series has just launched its sixth coin, and it continues to surprise with its wide range of subjects. Pointillism was developed by Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat and Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Signac, both Frenchmen working in Paris in the mid-1880’s, from principles discovered by French chemist, Michel Eugène Chevreul. It involves the creation [...]
