The Summer Launch from CIT brings us valleys, steampunk, birds, hats, spinning tops, Santorini, and lots of Iron Maiden Eddies It's time for the eagerly anticipated Summer Launch from CIT, and yet again, they haven't disappointed. As always, there's a mix of additions to existing series, one-offs, and potential new series debuts (CIT sensibly see how [...]
Powercoin combine the work of Gustav Klimt with one of WW2's most iconic photographs for their latest silver coin On 14 August 1945, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt was in New York's Times Square for Victory over Japan Day, the day that President Truman announced to the American people the surrender of Japan, and the end of [...]
Powercoin adds to its innovative embroidered take on iconic artwork with a terrific version of Van Gogh's Starry Night After moving from their award-winning jigsaw and puzzle based takes on fine art, Italian producer Powercoin tried their hand at reproducing one of those masterpieces in a new way - using the look of embroidery. In [...]
Parthava Coin follows up a striking Jaguar debut in its 'Day and Night' wildlife series with a piercing look at an American icon - the Bald Eagle Wildlife is one of the core themes in numismatics, and has been since coins started appearing in toga pockets several millennia ago. Depictions of the creatures we inhabit [...]
A mix of rock music, wild animals, Asian culture, heroism, and a stunning look at our numismatic past, feature in CIT's Spring launch The much anticipated Spring Launch from Liechtenstein-based producer CIT hits the market this morning, and we'll be having a closer look at a few of them later today. As we always do, [...]
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 [...]
CIT wow with their first major launch of 2024, including the debut of Smartminting 4.0 with Iron Knight The first seasonal release tranche of 2024, the Winter Launch, is timed to coincide with the industry's biggest event, the World Money Fair, held in Berlin for three days from tomorrow. It's usually CIT's flagship release, and with [...]
Numiscollect continues its trek through Lost Civilisations with a stop-over at the MesoAmerican Mayan Empire The third release in Numiscollect's interesting 'Lost Civilisations' series has debuted, and after Phoenicia, and Babylon, we've leap-frogged the Atlantic Ocean to land in South/Central America, for a look at the ancient Mayan culture. To say that Mayan civilisation was long-lived [...]
Minigold's biggest cheerleader, CIT Coin Invest, expands its already wide and varied range with five new coins So what do we consider a minigold? Basically, gold coins under a gram in weight fall under this general classification, and it's become particularly associated with the 1/2 gram weight, as the majority of issues in this class tip [...]
CIT Autumn Launch Day: The Armillary Sphere, the Dragonfly, and the Eiffel Tower demonstrate CIT's technical and artistic ability in modern numismatics We've taken to picking out three noteworthy coins from CIT's quarterly seasonal releases to look at one launch day, and that's the case again for the last of the 2023 events - Autumn. [...]
