MK Coins expands its ambitious The 9 Dragons series with the Azure and Torch dragons. Here is a gallery. We produced one of our Coin Series Profiles to this very ambitious range of dragon coins, to keep track of what has been an much faster rate of release than we originally expected. However, MK Coins [...]
MK's 9 Dragons series reaches the half-way point with the Coiled Dragon. Here are some images. We've produced one of our Coin Series Profiles to this very ambitious range of dragon coins, with the idea being we'd cover every second or third new release in a news post, with the rest going straight into the profile. [...]
The lunar calendar year is more than just 12 animals, and Double Dragon God of Wealth is a striking numismatic reminder As we rapidly approach the new lunar calendar year, we can look back at a huge range of coin issues celebrating it. The numismatic world is unusual in that it's often a year before [...]
Artisan Coin Productions brings some stylish designs to affordable territory with a range of one-gram silver coins With the increasing focus on higher end numismatics, it's easy to overlook potential problems arising from it. Even ignoring the economic woes affecting more and more people, and the subsequent shrinking of disposable income, it's hard to entice new [...]
Spectres stays in the ancient historical world, following Hannibal Barca with another Roman nemesis - Cleopatra One of the most famous women in history, Cleopatra VII, the last Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, was born in 69 BCE in Alexandria, the cultural and intellectual centre of the Hellenistic world. She belonged to the Ptolemaic dynasty, a Greek [...]
The Coin Village enters the numismatic world with a high-relief Zeus at Olympia, in three finishes Ancient mythology, along with wildlife, is a hugely popular subject in numismatic circles, and a few producers in particular, like CIT, Mint XXI, and Mint of Poland, all bring their distinct styles to the genre. Joining them today is The [...]
Spectres brings Hannibal Barca, the Roman Empire's greatest nemesis, to life in a high-relief silver coin It isn't many people that make their names fighting a behemoth, but Hannibal Barca, the renowned Carthaginian general, is remembered as one of history's greatest military strategists, particularly for his audacious and innovative tactics during the Second Punic War (218-201 [...]
MK's 9 Dragons collection of high-relief silver coins continues with its third issue - The Black Dragon MK continue their journey along the path of 9 Dragons with the launch of the third in the series to date. Last month saw the debut of the collection, starting with the Winged Dragon, and the Scaled Dragon. [...]
Singapore-based producer, Precious metal Collectors, has a heavy presence in the fine art coin genre, and by heavy presence, we don't just mean in the number of releases. Utilising their Bi-Metal minting technique, whereby silver is placed over a solid copper core, the end result was coins in the kilo weight class, but containing only 1–5 ounces [...]
South Korean alcohol legends, HiteJinro, hit the century mark, and CTK issue a silver coin to mark the occasion Some of the most iconic brands in the world are alcohol based. That's just as true in South Korea as anywhere else, and one of the biggest is HiteJinro, the world's biggest producer of the classic rice-based [...]
