With domed coins being one of the huge success stories of the last couple of years, and with the skillset required to strike them well working its way around the industry, it's obvious that many of the big players that have yet to join the party will do so. The biggest mint to jump on board [...]
After the successful launch of the Mandala Art series last year by Parisian coin producer the Art Mint, it was quite obvious that the set would expand this year with another of these epic 3oz antique-finish coins. The first in the new annual series was called Mandala Art 'Kalachakra', and as you'd expect from the name, [...]
Art-architectural coins continue riding their wave of popularity, with the genre invented by CIT and it's iconic Tiffany Art range now enjoying so many good entrants it's hard to pick favourites any more. Some series have spawned some quite amazingly good designs, a perrenial favourite being the Mineral Art Taj Mahal 2oz coin. Spanish producer Moneda [...]
German coin producer MCI-Mint has added to its range of prehistoric animal coins with a new debut featuring the most well-known dinosaur in the world, Tyrannosaurus Rex. Over the last few years, MCI have expanded their range but in a different way to most other producers. Instead of releasing lots of different subjects, MCI pick a subject [...]
At long last, the New Zealand Mints widely liked Feng Shui series of coins has reached parity between the gold and silver versions. After starting as a coloured silver coin series, the popularity of the uncoloured ¼oz gold format led the mint to start releasing gold versions a couple of years later, starting back in April 2014 [...]
One of the premiere series of art-architectural themed coins, Crystal Arts from the Mint of Poland is now on its fourth release after the series debut in 2012 with 'Secrets of Liechtenstein', ironically looking at the country in which is based Coin Invest Trust (CIT), arguably the most influential coin producer in this style of coin with their [...]
One of the British Pobjoy Mint's latest releases is a rare one from the British Antarctic Territory (BAT), a zone of the Antarctic continent claimed by Britain, that only issued its first ever legal tender coin in 2008 to celebrate its 100th anniversary. The Pobjoy Mint was responsible for that, and for most of the coins [...]
Another series from the New Zealand Mint that has become a collector favourite is its silver Endangered Species range. Depicting the sadly increasing number of animals under threat around the world, the Snow Leopard is the sixth coin to be launched in the series, although because the first coin featuring the Venerable Collared Lizard was coloured and carried a [...]
A stylish and popular series, Predator:Prey from US-based Armageddon Mint, is a four-coin series of tribal-art style silver coins depicting one of natures top predators, and a prey animal they're associated with. Overlaid onto a ying-yang symbol, the designs are quite unlike anything else out there and all the better for it. Debuting in 2014 with [...]
Our latest comprehensive Coin Series Profile is now up. Quite a bit of work with lots more to add over the next few years, this superb series of 2oz silver or gold coins depicts kings of Poland between the late 10th and late 18th centuries. Struck by the Mint of Poland for the National Bank of [...]
