CIT have added the inevitable 2026 designs to their superb, dimensional Lunar silver coin range, and as always, there's a half-gram minigold, and a five-gram coin note alongside it. We've long been admirers of the innovative designs that have exemplified their Lunar Collection since 2019, and this eighth annual issue is no exception. The star of the [...]
A terrific mix of historical themes mark out this week's round-up, and there's a Hot Wheels coin for good measure! (Week 46, 2024) Five new coins this week, headlined by a fantastic collaborative effort between Germania Mint and the Croatian National Bank. In fact, three of the five releases we're looking at here today have [...]
The esoteric coins keep coming! Legendary phones, AI, blingy eggs, and inspiring women (Week 45, 2024) Here we are again with our Friday collation of new coins, and while there are only four this time, it's certainly a varied mix. There's a new addition to Powercoin's look back at early tech, a highly unusual Artificial Intelligence design [...]
Prehistoric Critterday. CIT expands its beautiful Evolution of Life silver coin series with the skeletal remains of a Terror Bird CIT's flagship prehistoric nature coin series returns with its tenth issue, and this time it's a bird, but not any old bird, as this one would do to you, what you do to a chicken [...]
CIT Summer Launch: A cowboy hat and the return of the spinning top coin showcase the extreme end of smartminting's talents The CIT Summer Launch is upon us, and around two-dozen new issues have debuted as part of it. As always an eclectic mix, we usually do a preview using the CIT videos to kick off [...]
A look at five more designs from CIT's very impressive Spring Launch tranche, including the latest Woodland Spirit, and the last of the Real Heroes Continuing our coverage of CIT's new debuts, we have a better look at five more of them, encompassing an original design, along with additions to two existing series, and new variants of [...]
Numiscollect's 'Archaeology & Symbolism' series returns to Buddhism with a three variant Manjushri Mandala coin Continuing to power into double figures with an eleventh release, Dutch producer Numiscollect's Archaeology and Symbolism has always been one of the more impressive series around today. These three-ounce silver coins journey around the world reproducing cultural artifacts from a [...]
A striking lunar snake, a clever elephant, and Gryphon, a stunning homage to classic Greek numismatics, stand out in CIT's Spring Launch We posted a collation of all the videos that CIT produced for their latest Spring Launch earlier today, so if you want a complete overview of what's been released today, you can head over [...]
Now on its ninth incarnation, CIT's beautiful 'Evolution of Life' series of coins takes us on a journey through prehistory, depicting some of the amazing animals that have journeyed upon this planet over the last 500 million years. It does so in smartminted high-relief, using rose-gold gilded fossils still embedded within (antiqued silver) rock,The 2023 issue features the [...]
Probably our favourite lunar series of recent years, CIT's fully dimensional range has great design, a quirky attitude, and superb quality. For 2024, the lunar calendar has the dragon as its figurehead, the only mythological creature of the 12, and likely the most popular, if coin sales are any indicator. The dragon is brilliant, even including the [...]
