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 [...]
WMF '23: CIT takes its mastery of clinical precision to new heights with an impeccable spinning coin The World Money Fair always brings out the best in CIT, the multi award-winning Liechtenstein-based coin producer, and previous years have seen the event used to debut the best of their offerings. This year is no different, and we're [...]
Numiscollect seek out candidates for the title of '8th Wonder of the World', with a coin featuring the Church of Saint George We're all very familiar with the Seven Wonders, including such iconic structures as the Great Pyramids of Giza, and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, but fewer know that it's actually called the Seven Wonders [...]
It's hard to keep track of what popular culture franchise is owned by what mint, especially when they began to be fragmented by region, but nevertheless, they continue to diversify. MTB-PAMP has issued several coins for the DC Comics Universe, and the latest is a neat Wonder Woman logo coin, of one-ounce silver in weight. This isn't the [...]
CIT's hotly anticipated Autumn Release is here, with Spartans, temples, mountains, Iron Maiden, and Sherlock Holmes Never let it be said that CIT don't cast their net wide for new coin subjects. As you can tell from the headline, this is another expansive look through history, nature, science, and the arts, using gold, silver, platinum and copper, [...]
The Greek god of the Sun, Helios, joins Numiscollect's superb Ancient Gods series of smartminted silver coins Helios was the Ancient Greek personification of the sun, and a deity that grew in prominence as Greek and Roman cultures began to merge in late antiquity. Like all the old gods, he also had quite a few side [...]
