The story of how the Ancient Egyptians honoured their dead is explored in the second Rites of Passage silver coin After skipping 2022, Numiscollect's 'Rites of Passage' series returns with its second issue. A fascinating subject for a coin series, the way our ancestors celebrated the death of their leaders and important people could almost [...]
Fun on the beach. A journey through our childhood memories inspires Powercoin's latest silver coin series Powercoin, the Rome-based producer, has carved itself out a great reputation for coins with more unusual styles and themes, going way back almost a decade to their nanochip adorned fine-art issues. Their latest coin, released today, is the first in [...]
Just as they did with their excellent Babylon two-ounce coin, the first in this 'Lost Civilisations' series, Numiscollect are releasing a bigger five-ounce version of the second, Phoenicia and Carthage. As before, there are no changes to the design or layout of the coin, it's simply bigger, and with a mintage of just 149 pieces, considerably rarer.An impressive series, [...]
One of the best flora coins on the market, Numiscollect's 'Flowers'series takes full advantage of smartminting to impart impressive high-relief depictions of popular flowers in silver, topped off with some fine quality colouration. The Forget-Me-Not is the fifth issue, following Pink Rose, Daisy, Poppy, and Lotus designs. The style is a simple one, with a flower, struck in [...]
King of the 0.5 gram minigold coin, CIT, recently added a 45th issue to their varied 'Golden Highlights' range. The tiny minigold format has carved out a decently sized niche in the modern numismatic market, and we think that's likely to continue if the price of gold rises again. A very affordable way to buy gold, even though [...]
Without question, one of the more unusual coin ranges of recent years, Numiscollect's 'Dot Art' series brings Pointillism to numismatics. The concept of pointillism is fundamentally simple, using coloured dots to build up an image that becomes more cohesive as you move away from it. It's very effective. Indeed, before the advent of digital, newspapers used a dot [...]
Exclusive! Parthava Coin joins the numismatic nature market with 'Jaguar', a striking first Night & Day coin The big cats have dominated nature coins for quite some time, and there have been some quite stunning designs over the last few years, ranging from realistic depictions, to cultural imagery. Possibly the most powerful of them all has [...]
CIT extend multiple ranges with new additions as part of their expansive Winter Launch. here are some of them. As is usually the case at World Money Fair time, we have more coins to cover than is humanly possible, but we'll have a good go using our multi-coin format. We really wanted to have a [...]
WMF '23: CIT keep up their exacting standards with another varied and impressive Winter Release Here's just a quick round-up of CIT's latest Winter Launch using their always excellent videos. We've already covered their very unusual Spinning Coin in a post yesterday, but as is always the case at the time of the World Money Fair, [...]
WMF '23: The epic destruction of Pompeii in 79 AD inspires Numiscollect's first Fury of Nature coin Numiscollect's latest series is simply called 'Fury of Nature', and as we're discovering to this very day (the NZ Mint's city of Auckland is currently flooded, for example), nothing shows fury like Mother Nature herself. It's a clever idea [...]
