Powercoin's hit Micromosaic Passion series is back with a new look, and featuring the artist Frida Kahlo as the subject After a hiatus, Powercoin are revisiting their hit Micromosaic Passion series of three ounce silver coins with an all-new second series. It kicks off with renowned Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, but as the subject, not the [...]
Spring Launch Special: CIT releases a wide range of new issues, and here are three of our favourites It's Spring Launch time, and we're absolutely inundated with new coin issues from some of the industry's biggest producers, We obviously can't cover them all on release day (there are about 80 so far!), so we'll take three [...]
Powercoin debuts their new industrial proof finish with a striking silver coin inspired by the Deaths-Head Moth A surprise new release from Powercoin, IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE isn't part of a new series, but a one-off with a cool design and, we suspect, is more about the debut of the new finish used. Called 'Industrial Proof', [...]
Released last September, Powercoin's stunning Zebra coin, the first in its 'Camouflage of Nature' series, was a visually striking piece of numismatic art, and one of our favourite coins released in the whole of 2022. It was a three-ounce, proof finish coin, and you can see and read all about it in our original article HERE. As they [...]
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 [...]
