After a short hiatus, Germania Beasts is back with Gullinbursti - the hog from hell. We have an AgAuShoot full of images. Germania Mint has managed to craft an entire numismatic world, all based around the myths, legends, history and people of the ancient province of Germania. It's been a pleasure to see that world build up, [...]
Germania Mint's flagship Germania bullion and proof range is back for a seventh annual issue, and we have an AgAuShoot Now on its seventh incarnation, Germania Mint's most iconic bullion series, Germania (sometimes called Lady Germania) has debuted with another fine, adaptable design. As the series that really highlighted the mint, it's one of their [...]
AgAuShoot: 2024 Ragnarök: Sköll & Hati: Germania Mint kicks off a high-relief coin series themed around the Norse apocalypse Ragnarök, the Norse vision of the destruction of the entire cosmos, right down to the gods themselves, remains a common them in modern culture, often replacing the word Armageddon. It's an epic tale, and a pillar of [...]
Numiartis takes its iconic, genre-defining 'Ares' coin, and issues a limited-edition one-kilogram version A real hit on its debut back in 2017, Gods: Ares from Numiartis was arguably the coin that kicked off the frenzy of two-ounce, Mint of Poland struck, ancient mythology coins that permeated the market for several years after. Arguably a genre with [...]
AgAuSHOOT: 2022 Wild Five – Hippopotamus (Pobjoy Mint) Better late than never, as the old saying goes, here's our next photoshoot of a coin we've been loaned, this time by the fine folks at Pobjoy Mint again. Our last shoot was a Pobjoy coin, from their Queen's Beasts series, and we'd decided to finally get some [...]
AgAuSHOOT: 2021 The Queen's Beasts - The Falcon of the Plantagenets (Pobjoy Mint) We promised late last year that we'd be doing more of our AgAuShoots - photoshoots of coins we've obtained access to, either our own, or coins we've been sent on loan or to keep. We'll note what they are, although we're planning to keep [...]
AgAuSHOOT: 2021 Impact Moments: Meteorite (Germania Mint) We have done some AgAuSHOOT's in the past, but they've been few and far between, but that will change going forward. The first of our new ones is this gorgeous new coin from Germania Mint and Numizzmi. This producer actually puts out some pretty good official images (something [...]
Germania Mint detours into space with a silver medal celebration of Gagarin’s first orbit and we have our images Having built a fine range of bullion and numismatic releases around the concept of the ancient region of Germania, the Germania Mint is spreading its wings with the debut of as 'Red Star' medallion series. The theme of [...]
AgAuSHOOT: Pobjoys cool new Pegasus reverse-proof bullion coin As promised, here's our latest AgAuSHOOT and it features what could be the hottest new bullion coin of the year, the Pobjoy Mints replacement for the Isle of Man Angel coin. With the Manx government not wanting to issue more coins, [...]
For 2016, the Bank of Greece will be releasing just three silver coins, and three gold ones. All year. Now that isn't a huge amount of coins, especially when the low mintages are taken into account (just 2,000 for a national bank release is pretty low), so it's no surprise that new releases are quite sought [...]
