The first published collection of Shakespeare's plays provides inspiration for Mint XXI's 'First Folio' silver coin An author who has had more words written about them than they ever wrote, William Shakespeare is an absolute behemoth in the literary world, so we'll waste little time regurgitating his legacy. He was actually very well respected in his [...]
Mint XXI's epic 36-coin Greek Mythology series releases its fifth wave with Hephaestus, Themis, and the Centaur After the launch of four phases from when Mint XXI launched its ambitious new 36 coin 'Greek Mythology' in late 2022, we now get our fifth. Each phase is a mix of the three weights that make up [...]
Born in 1852, Catalonian, Antoni Gaudí, is one of those practitioners of his art, in this case architecture, that stands apart from almost everyone else within the same field. He did most of his work, an intoxicating blend of the natural and the spiritual, in Barcelona, combing flowing lines, bright mosaics, and soaring towers. His crowning achievement [...]
Mint XXI Summer '23: Big Brother has an eye on Lucifer Morningstar, and a dragon watches over an angelic woman Our last post of the day on Mint XXI's summer releases covers another trio of some of their finest coins. These three, while having different themes, share common features. All are composed of two-ounces of silver, [...]
Mint XXI Summer ’23: A superb portrayal of Nicolaus Copernicus and his work kicks off the Futurists of the Past series Our look at Mint XXI's summer range continues with a coin we felt deserved a closer look. The first in their new 'Futurists of the Past' series, it features a superb rendition of the [...]
AllCollect glorifies the Great Commanders with a silver coin series, launching with the Spartan legend, Leonidas Born into the warrior culture of ancient Sparta, Leonidas embodied the virtues of courage, discipline, and unwavering loyalty to his people. He was famed for leading his army of 300 warriors in the pivotal 488 BCE Battle of Thermopylae against [...]
Despite our desire for a little break from covering bullion coins, after a swathe of them hit us over the last ten days, they continue to come, so I guess here we are. Fortunately, it's yet another good one, continuing what has been a golden age for limited mintage bullion going back over the last few years. One [...]
Mint XXI issues the fourth tranche of three coins in its comprehensive look at Greek mythology through numismatics In the last quarter of 2022, Mint XXI launched its ambitious new 36 coin 'Greek Mythology' series with three issues, and have since added six more. It's now time for the fourth tranche of three coins, and we [...]
Spring Launch Special: Mint XXI debuts new ranges to its existing line-up, and these are our favourite three Our third and last post of the day for Spring Launch, and after a selective look at the new issues from CIT and MDM, we come to another favourite of ours, Mint XXI. We expect some beautiful coins [...]
Scottsdale Mint revives it's 2019 Cameroon Cheetah bullion coin, expanding the range to three formats In amongst the seemingly countless designs in our round-up of Scottsdale Mint's bullion series, we have a small section simply titled 'Solo Releases'. These are issues not in a series, and only available in a single format. In amongst them is [...]
