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 [...]
It's CIT time with a breathtaking range of releases, with Cthulhu, Raven Witch, and Nautilus flexing Smartminting muscles to the max We always look forward to the quarterly release bundles from Liechtenstein-based CIT, a producer who, in partnership with the German mint BH Mayer, are at the very cutting edge of minting technology. As we've said [...]
The numismatic world's Lord of the Rings selection expands with an impeccable issue from Mint XXI A giant of the literary and movie worlds, irrespective of genre, J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' sequence has topped bestseller lists around the world for decades, They made the move to the big screen in 2003, with an epic [...]
