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 [...]
Spring Launch Special: CIT, MDM and Mint XXI take different approaches to the popular Lunar Dragon coin market The lunar market continues to be a regular fixture on the numismatic calendar, although less important than it seemed a decade ago. We stopped our annual round-ups back in 2019 after limited feedback on their usefulness, but a [...]
The third coin in Numiscollect's 'Growing Up' series is available now, and after the lion and the stallion, we have the impressive Brown Bear. The series features an adult animal on the reverse face, struck in smartminted high-relief, and with a black proof finish. The obverse focuses more on the young animal in its natural habitat, as well [...]
'The Vairochana Buddha coin is the latest issue in Numiscollect's journey though history's cultural artifacts One of the best coin series depicting mankind's cultural heritage, Numiscollect's 'Archaeology and Symbolism' showcases some of the fine artifacts and concepts from past centuries. To date, there have been eight releases, covering civilisations from multiple continents, and millennia. What we [...]
Part of yesterday's Spring Launch at CIT, their annual Lunar Calendar range continued with the debut of a trio of new issues, as varied in format as last year. Headlining the 'Sweet Rabbit' range is a super little fully dimensional silver coin, of an ounce in weight. These have always had a quite unique style of their own, [...]
Fine art is brought to numismatic life with an interesting multi-mint selection of artists and styles Fine art has always been a popular subject in the numismatic world. We've seen many series over the last decade alone, covering a broad range of artists, in a wide selection of styles, and that isn't even including the ancient [...]
Numiscollect's 'Growing Up' series of silver coins charting the life cycle of animals, continues with the Stallion A very pretty coin was launched by Numiscollect earlier this year, the first in its new 'Growing Up' series, which gave us a glimpse into the life-cycle of the King of the Beasts, the lion. Back with a second [...]
Evolution of Life silver coin series continues its journey through the fossil record with the early hominid, Paranthropus A favourite range of mine, CIT’s superb ‘Evolution of Life’ series of one-ounce silver coins takes the fascinating world of prehistoric life and depicts it in fossil form. The latest issue is the seventh to date and [...]
A new selection of CIT coins is coming and the first we're looking at is the latest in the mints dabble with the Lunar Calendar. Instead of an annual selection of simple coin designs that rely solely on the depiction of the relevant animal, CIT bring to market some pretty cool fully dimensional pieces. The latest of [...]
We're obviously swamped with new releases at the moment, so quite a few will be on our Quicklooks, just to try and 'surf the wave'. That doesn't mean only the lesser coins will be covered this way, as you can see here. Woodland Spirits is in one of CIT's less ambitious formats, a simple 1oz coloured silver [...]
