CIT Autumn Launch Day: The Armillary Sphere, the Dragonfly, and the Eiffel Tower demonstrate CIT's technical and artistic ability in modern numismatics We've taken to picking out three noteworthy coins from CIT's quarterly seasonal releases to look at one launch day, and that's the case again for the last of the 2023 events - Autumn. [...]
CIT Autumn Launch Day: A riot of colour, high-relief, the natural world, history and science. And Cowboys... Never ones to disappoint, CIT today launch their last seasonal batch of new releases for 2023, and as always, it's a varied, and very high quality mix of styles and designs for all budgets. Some of the old series [...]
CIT Summer '23: The Vexed Man, Charon the Ferryman, and the Grand Canyon showcase CIT's imagination After a quick wander through many of this talented producer's new coins from the Summer Launch, we've chosen three of them for a closer look. These aren't necessarily our absolute favourites, but they are all excellent, and more importantly, original. [...]
CIT Summer '23: Additions to classic series and exciting new designs. CIT flexes its design muscles with another outstanding launch We say this every time, and we mean it every time - CIT have launched another epic range of coins, this time for their Summer Launch 2023. As always, it's a wildly varied mix of [...]
Spring Launch Special: CIT releases a wide range of new issues, and here are three of our favourites It's Spring Launch time, and we're absolutely inundated with new coin issues from some of the industry's biggest producers, We obviously can't cover them all on release day (there are about 80 so far!), so we'll take three [...]
CIT extend multiple ranges with new additions as part of their expansive Winter Launch. here are some of them. As is usually the case at World Money Fair time, we have more coins to cover than is humanly possible, but we'll have a good go using our multi-coin format. We really wanted to have a [...]
WMF '23: The world of fine art is interpreted by the world of numismatics, and often with a unique twist. Always a staple of the modern collectible coin world, fine art seems to have grown in popularity in recent years, not just in the old style of just reproducing the original work, but in an ever [...]
The tenth issue in Numiscollect's fascinating 'Archaeology and Symbolism' series features one of the most fascinating objects from the ancient world - the Antikythera Mechanism. Described as possibly the oldest example of an analogue computer, it was designed to predict astronomical positions and eclipses, perhaps decades in advance. Work on exactly how it was designed is still the subject [...]
WMF '23: CIT keep up their exacting standards with another varied and impressive Winter Release Here's just a quick round-up of CIT's latest Winter Launch using their always excellent videos. We've already covered their very unusual Spinning Coin in a post yesterday, but as is always the case at the time of the World Money Fair, [...]
WMF '23: Art Mint maintains its reputation for graceful design with its Chinese Dragon Art coin Art Mint have always had a catalogue filled with a mix of the unusual, and the classic. The latter has been particularly well handled by their beautiful 'Mandala Art' range, now on its ninth release, and their new coin issue [...]
