Back in September 2015, amidst a run of new coins featuring the old Norse deities, a new nine-coin series of antiqued silver coins debuted called Norse Gods. Despite the launch being blunted somewhat by a plethora of similarly themed coins also announced in the same timeframe, so many in fact that we ran an Ancient Gods [...]
A stylish and popular series, Predator:Prey from US-based Armageddon Mint, is a four-coin series of tribal-art style silver coins depicting one of natures top predators, and a prey animal they're associated with. Overlaid onto a ying-yang symbol, the designs are quite unlike anything else out there and all the better for it. Debuting in 2014 with [...]
A personal favourite series and one that is deserving of a much wider audience, Numiscollects superb History of the Crusades coins have been launching into the market since back in 2009. Each of these sterling silver antique-finish coins depicts a major character and a scene from the particular Crusade in question. This latest coin [...]
Known as a coin producer that likes to push boundaries, Coin Invest Trust (CIT) have long experimented with unusual additions and inserts in their numerous ranges of proof silver coins. Arguably one of the most influential companies in the field, it was back in 2004 that they launched what was to become a flagship range for [...]
Launching in 2014, Predator and Prey is a striking series of coins depicting the relationship between one of North America's predatory beasts and the prey animal most associated with it. The debut coin chose the battle between the Wolf and one of its most dangerous prey animals, the Caribou. Last years coin featured a [...]
It was just two short month's ago that a new nine-coin series of antiqued silver coins debuted called Norse Gods. The launch of a pair of attractive and reasonably priced coins was blunted somewhat by the sheer number of similarly themed coins also announced in the same timeframe, so many in fact that we [...]
American coin dealer APMEX has recently been partnering up with some coin producers to get exclusive rights to some new coin series which the company calls APMEXclusive's. The first big series, and we really do mean BIG, is the Scottsdale Mint's epic 60 coin, 10 year Biblical Stories set struck in two ounces of rimless antiqued [...]
Ancient Gods Week continues dipping into the healthy new selection of numismatics featuring deities worshipped in ancient times. Fortunately in those polytheistic times, there were no shortage of gods and thus no shortage of subjects for new coins. Equally fortunately, most of them are resplendent with striking imagery and fascinating stories of their origins and adventures. [...]
Ever since the appearance of Zeus, the first of the Perth Mint's hugely popular Gods of Olympus series of 2 oz high-relief, antique silver coins that debuted back in early 2014, the gods of antiquity have been a hot topic in the numismatic world. The New Zealand Mints rectangular coins were released over the same timespan, [...]
The Cook Islands have issued the second in the World of Parrots series of 3D effect coins which like an earlier series from Coin Invest Trust depicting exotic butterflies, employs a special minting technique in which the wings raise up from the coin to give a kind of 3D effect. Not a particularly sophisticated effect, it does endow the [...]
