Carved Skull coins are back with St Aloysius Gonzaga, a work by artist Zane Wylie A popular coin on its debut last year, the first Carved Skull coin carried a highly unusual subject for a numismatic. Carved human skulls date back literally thousands of years and have been a constant component of [...]
Gustav Klimt represents Motherhood in Art on the Mint of Poland's latest silver coin The Mint of Poland has debuted a new fine silver coin and master artist Gustav Klimt has found his striking artwork being used again. A popular subject for art-themed coins over the last couple of years, Klimt's often [...]
The classic numismatic icon of Ancient Greece is modernised for new antiqued silver coin As iconic in its day as any modern design is now, the Ancient Greek Tetradrachm (literally 'four drachmae') was introduced in the sixth century BCE and replaced the older didrachms with their heraldic style. Carrying the head of [...]
Moneda Nueva is back in the lunar market with a high-relief Year of the Dog coin Producer of probably our favourite lunar snake coin, Moneda Nueva didn't follow it up in following years but are now back with a new entrant into what is the most varied theme in modern numismatics. Issued [...]
Cameroon and the Mint of Poland debut a fascinating new silver coin series 'Carved Skulls and Bones' A pernennial image in culture from Neolithic times right up to the modern world, the human skull has been used to represent everything from love to dread. The recent discovery of carved human skulls in [...]
Moneda Nueva launches a superb Roswell UFO anniversary silver coin. Or is it a weather balloon.... Just a few days after we covered Art Mints's new Roswell 70th anniversary coin (already sold out at the mint), comes a second, bigger silver coin covering this enigmatic landmark event in conspiracy lore. This time the [...]
200 Years of the New York Stock Exchange marked on silver coin from Cameroon Love it or hate it, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is one of the worlds most influential financial organisations and is now commemorating being in existence for two centuries. By market capitalization it's the world's largest stock [...]
Early every year, the numismatic industry gets together to release details of most of the years new coins. In amongst the crowd at the World Money Fair in Berlin sits the Mint of Poland, not only one of the most prolific mints around, but one of the most innovative as well. They mint everything from a [...]
In the annals of literary history, 1516 will go down as a year to forget. The deaths of two of the worlds greatest writers just a day apart saw to that. On the 23 April, William Shakespeare died in his early fifties, and on the 22nd, the writer of ground-breaking novel Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes [...]
The Big Five is a term coined by big-game hunters to describe the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot, although it's now widely used by tourist/wildlife guides as well. Comprised of the African lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, African leopard, and the Rhinoceros, all members can only be found in certain countries [...]
