Treasure Island, a tale of adventure, pirates, and a parrot, inspires T&S Coin's new silver coin release One of the most famous adventure stories of all time, Treasure Island was written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in the early 1880s, and has been a staple of pop-culture ever since. As well as direct adaptations, it's [...]
NASA doesn't want the dinosaurs fate to be our own. Melbourne Coins new issue showcases the DART tech designed to safeguard Earth Scientist's mutter the word 'Chicxulub' with a mixture of fear and awe. Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid, somewhere between 10-15 km in diameter, impacted our world in the Yucatan Peninsula, just off [...]
Scottsdale Mint has been busy with additions to their Marlin, Mermaid, and Alien bullion coin programs Prolific bullion coin producer, Scottsdale Mint, has a catalogue of different series that puts most of the competition to shame. Everything from religion, through science-fiction, to, most popularly, nature, has a presence in the range. There's gold and silver, some [...]
The Royal Mint launches its eagerly anticipated 2024 Britannia proof range and it's a beautiful piece by a French artist One of the highlights of the numismatic calendar, certainly for the more classical-leaning collector, has been the Royal Mint's proof Britannia range. The series split from the bullion range in 2012, when those coins standardised [...]
A new Zodiac series, a snake-haired Medusa, a zombie samurai, and a nautical cat showcase MK and The Gold Village's imagination Mint of MK and The Gold Village continue their rapid expansion with another selection of new issues. You'd expect there to be either increased repetition, or a lowering of quality, perhaps, but it seems [...]
Numiscollect expands its Pointillism-style 'Dot-Art' coin series with a clever look at India's iconic Taj Mahal Developed by Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat and Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Signac, both Frenchmen working in Paris in the mid-1880’s, Pointillism was an artistic technique that built up an image using pure colours in small dots. This relied on the [...]
One of the longest running series we've ever covered at AgAuNEWS, Deadly and Dangerous debuted in 2006 with the Red Back Spider, a coin that went on to garner enormous interest on the secondary market. It was a striking coin, but despite interest in the series reducing somewhat, no doubt due to the huge influx of competing designs, [...]
Le Grand Mint brings its esoteric sense of style to their debut selection of 2024 issues in bullion and proof ranges Over the last few years, German producer, Le Grand Mint, has built itself a reputation for some quite unusual designs, full of detail, and quite different to almost everyone else. The silhouette 'Evolution' nature series, [...]
The Gold Village brings the South American Greater Thornbird and its spiky nest to numismatic life Found throughout South America, the Greater Thornbird is an unusual avian, freckle-breasted, around 20 cm in length, and with a loud song. It got its name from the habit of building its cone-shaped nest in amongst thorny branches, adding [...]
Art Mint brings its crisp artistic style to a beautiful, traditional Chinese Dragon art coin in a choice of two finishes Just like the last time it came around in 2012, the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Lunar Calendar has brought with it a notable uptick in the number of dragon themed coins [...]
