CIT's new Pope Francis coin showcases groundbreaking Big Gold Minting Something we always look forward to, a new coin from Liechtenstein-based producer Coin Invest Trust has debuted and while at first glance it's an unadventurous one, it's actually one of the most important launches we'll see this year. To [...]
The mysterious Flying Dutchmen is Numiscollects third Ghost Ships silver coin Carrying on the fantasy ship theme from yesterdays eight-coin set, Numiscollect have launched the third in its Ghost Ship series. First appearing back in 2013, Numiscollect skipped the following year but have settled on an annual release schedule [...]
Smartminting goes double-sided with Powercoin's Eternal Sculptures debut The second and final of Powercoins two new CIT-produced designs is also out today and it's another impressive coin. The first to debut SmartMinting on both sides of the coin, it is again a fine demonstration of this new minting technology [...]
Powercoin harnesses the industry best for its new Guido Fawkes coin After the debut recently of Coin Invest Trust's (CIT) new Skull No1 coin, it became clear that SmartMinting is no gimmick. Clearly able to provide hitherto unobtainable levels of detailed relief on a struck item, we naturally assumed [...]
Here's a quick look at a coin we missed on release and the sequel to last years superb Temple of Heaven coin. One of the best art-architectural coins on the market, that 100g antique-silver coin was deservedly popular. Keeping the same ultra-high level of relief, made possible by a four-layer technique, this second entrant in the [...]
We've already covered the Brexit coins from CIT in previous posts, so we're not going to reiterate here. Suffice to say that the line art images released at launch, as above, don't do justice to the actual coin. Now real life images are available we thought it worth posting them as the coins have been extremely [...]
One of the early coins to feature the gods of the old Viking mythology was the debut pair in a new series entitle Norse Gods. Struck in two ounces of antiqued fine silver, the nine-coin set wrapped up in under a year and seemed to be well liked. The Royal Canadian Mint even sold the set [...]
One of this sites favourite series, Dutch coin producer Numiscollect's History of the Crusades is a hugely appealing historical series of antique sterling silver coins. It debuted back in 2009 and has stayed true to its roots ever since. The design of these coins has always been a highlight. A sculpt of the main character on [...]
Let's get the easy stuff out of the way first. Coin Invest Trust (CIT) have followed up their surprise hit Brexit coin with a pair of gold versions carrying the same design. One is a 0.5g minigold coin, an increasingly popular format thanks in no small part to this Liechtenstein-based coin producer. It's cleanly struck with [...]
The big event happened yesterday. After weeks of campaigning between those that wanted Britain to leave the European Union and those that wanted to remain part of it, the vote ended with the leave campaign victorious. A decision either inspired or stupid depending on the point of view, the campaigning reached new lows of fear-mongering, lies [...]
