With multiple releases in their Disney range this year, the New Zealand Mint's Classic Disney range remains the flagship and the most anticipated. We seem to be entering a period where there are many Disney anniversaries coming up and this time around it's 75 years since the release of the classic movie Dumbo. The fifth coin [...]
The French mint, the Monnaie de Paris have produced some beautiful coins over the years, a favourite of ours being the superb From Clovis to Republic series, along with plenty of others. Like most of the big national issuers of coins such as the Royal Mint, The US Mint and the Central Bank of Russia, the [...]
Pobjoy continue their relationship using the ultra-strong metal Titanium with the release of a new set of three coins under the theme Ocean Zones. Each of the three coins depicts life under the sea in one of three depths. The Daylight coin features creatures that live at or near the surface of the oceans, the Twilight [...]
With artwork inspired from a highly regarded 19th century wood engraving specialist called Gustave Doré, the Scottsdale Mints ‘Biblical Stories’ coin series is one of the most ambitious around at the moment. Known for his work illustrating the writer Dante's seminal novels, and for a huge collection of woodcuts depicting scenes from the Bible, Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré [...]
Journeys of Discovery from the New Zealand Mint launched in June last year and has quickly built up to five coins in number with the launch of David Livingstone. Featuring some of the greatest explorers in history, the first coin depicted the epic explorer of Asia, Marco Polo. The second coin featured one of the discoverers [...]
Always having multiple subscription series on the go at any one time, no mint uses this way of selling coins as much as the Royal Canadian Mint does. It's a decent idea as long as the collector wants the whole set. The mint gets a good indicator of what collectors are looking for as subscriptions tend [...]
After the launch of a wide range of Superman v Batman: Dawn of Justice movie coins a few days ago, the Royal Canadian Mint have now released the rest of their months output. There's a mix of single coins which we'll look at below, and the launch of several new subscription sets which we'll feature tomorrow. [...]
Without question, one of the biggest trends in the latter half of last year was the surge in popularity of coins featuring ancient mythology. More specifically, gods. Even more specifically, Odin. Kicked off in style with the superb Legends of Asgard 3 oz max-relief coin from Choice Mint, it was swiftly followed by a nine-coin series [...]
The first release of 2016 from the Narodowy Bank Polski (NBP) is here and it's a fine debut for the new year. The NBP doesn't really do flashy coins, rarely even going for colour or gilding, but it does produce some fine product for Poland, heaping much care on the design and quality of its coins, [...]
A blistering hot day in Tahoua, a region in the west of the African country Niger, and a seven-year-old Tuareg boy tracking a stray goat looks up at the sky and witnesses a flaming ball fall from the sky and impact the ground. It is the afternoon of 21 August 1991, and the Taizerzait meteorite had [...]
