CIT Autumn Launch Day: A riot of colour, high-relief, the natural world, history and science. And Cowboys... Never ones to disappoint, CIT today launch their last seasonal batch of new releases for 2023, and as always, it's a varied, and very high quality mix of styles and designs for all budgets. Some of the old series [...]
Powercoin launches its latest silver coin series, Magical Creatures at Night, with the legendary Phoenix The ancient civilisations all had at least one thing in common - mythological beasts. No matter what continent that society was located on, and no matter whether they had contact with others or not, they each had rich pantheons of [...]
It was back in mid-2021 that Numiartis debuted a second series of Egyptian Symbols coins with Bastet, the cat god, featuring a black cat in full Ancient Egyptian garb on its reverse, itself following a first series that ran from 2014 to 2017. Beautifully detailed, and enhanced with CIT's proprietary Smartminting technology, it was an attractive look [...]
Wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, Lady Godiva became an icon because of the legend that she rode naked on horseback through the streets of Coventry. With her modesty only maintained through the judicious placement of her long flowing hair, she rode her horse to get remission from the oppressive taxes her husband had placed upon his [...]
CIT Summer '23: The Vexed Man, Charon the Ferryman, and the Grand Canyon showcase CIT's imagination After a quick wander through many of this talented producer's new coins from the Summer Launch, we've chosen three of them for a closer look. These aren't necessarily our absolute favourites, but they are all excellent, and more importantly, original. [...]
CIT Summer '23: Additions to classic series and exciting new designs. CIT flexes its design muscles with another outstanding launch We say this every time, and we mean it every time - CIT have launched another epic range of coins, this time for their Summer Launch 2023. As always, it's a wildly varied mix of [...]
Powercoin's Camouflage of Nature moves from prey to predator with a leopard in hiding coin The first coin in this series, Camouflage of Nature', debuted last September, and was easily one of the best designs released in 2022. A striking merging of geometry and nature, it took an iconic image and perfectly translated it to a numismatic [...]
After employing mosaics and jigsaw puzzles to impart texture to fine art, Powercoin are back with embroidery for their latest coin One of the more innovative producers of modern collectible coins operating today, Rome-based Powercoin have issued some clever coins over the last decade. Chief amongst them are their popular textured fine art coins, more [...]
Albrecht Dürer's now iconic 'Rhinoceros' has appeared on coins a few times over the last decade, most notably with Art Mint's excellent antiqued issue from late 2021. One of the most famous artists to come out of the Northern Renaissance, Dürer was especially noted for his woodcuts, which often make the transition to coins really well. Scottsdale Mint's [...]
Parthava Coin seeks to raise awareness of our impact on the natural world with Endangered Animals: Asiatic Cheetah We've had an obvious affinity for coins that raise awareness of mankind's deplorable impact on the natural world, from way back when we first went live in 2013 (also ironically a cheetah) and through dozens of coins since. [...]
