Top World Coins debuts 'The Raven, the first silver coin of the Creatures of Nocturne series Going back to ancient times, mankind has held the night in equal measures of awe and fear. Nothing has evoked those emotions more than the creatures that come alive when the sun has set, often only noticed by the sounds [...]
The Mint of Poland celebrates Cleopatra, the work of Józef Chełmoński, and the Japanese tradition of Hanami It's been a little while since we visited the new releases from the Mint of Poland, despite quite a few of many producers coins being struck by them. I've chosen three of the latest, including an Egyptian one [...]
King Arthur's legendary blade, the sword Excalibur, launches MK's new 'Melee Weapons' series of dimensional silver coins We seem to be having a bit of a dimensional weapons day today, and after a Quicklook at Coins Today's latest offering earlier today, here we're with Mint of MK's new addition. Just a few weeks ago, they [...]
The Mint of Poland's long-running 'Treasures of World Painting' series of silver coin travels to a darker place with 'Dark Edition'. The series of square coins reproduces famous works of art, not just the iconic ones, but some of the more esoteric ones as well. Dark Edition kicks off with esoteric, and a piece of art that [...]
The cast weapon genre welcomes Mint of MK to its ranks with a silver rocket propelled grenade coin issued for Cameroon A genre that seems to growing in popularity in recent years, the 'mini-weapon' silver miniature is usually a little out of our wheelhouse, given they're generally cast, not struck, and usually not denominated. However, Coin's [...]
The Legendary Monkey King gets kitted out with Mint of MK's extraordinary, and quite huge, gilded cudgel and headband coins Sun Wukong, the legendary Monkey King, is one of the main characters in the famous 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, although his origin can be traced back centuries earlier to the Song Dynasty (10th-13th [...]
Great Greek Mythology, Mint XXI's epic 36-coin series, adds its penultimate trio of coins, including the big boss himself, Zeus Mint XXI's flagship 'Great Greek Mythology' series is rapidly heading to completion with today's launch of the 11th of twelve tranches of three coins, on its way to make a quite epic 36-coin depiction of the major [...]
Mint of MK heads into the soulful world of jazz with a striking new retro microphone style silver coin One of the most experimental and innovative producers working today, Mint of MK, is at it again with a striking debut for their latest coin series, 'Voices of Music'. Going on the evidence of this first issue, we [...]
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 [...]
Berlin WMF 25: Time and space, along with a little death, mark our second look at Mint XXI's latest winter launch After yesterday's look at three of the new coins from Mint XXI's winter release in time for the Berlin World Money Fair, we're back for another three, and this time, it's a solitary addition to [...]
