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 [...]
Clockwork Evolution returns with the slow, precise movements of the turtle going mechanical on Powercoin's latest Our biomechanical overlords are back! Powercoin's stylish Clockwork Evolution series has just debuted its third issue, following the Bee design in late 2020, and a particularly nice Ladybird design earlier this year. That latter coin was the 2021 issue, delayed [...]
After failing to cheat Death at chess, Powercoin tries a game of poker, with their second 'You Can't Cheat Death' coin The battle with Death for the right to life has left the chessboard and headed to the gaming table for a deadly hand of poker. Last February, Powercoin launched a new series of three-ounce silver [...]
Powercoin extends its Micromosaic Passion, and Cyborg Revolution series with five classic ladies and an angry doggy Along with their Micropuzzle Treasure series, Micromosaic Passion was an interesting concept whereby finely struck lines, in conjunction with high-quality colour, gave the impression the image was built up of smaller pieces. The puzzle coins were very well done, [...]
CIT's hotly anticipated Autumn Release is here, with Spartans, temples, mountains, Iron Maiden, and Sherlock Holmes Never let it be said that CIT don't cast their net wide for new coin subjects. As you can tell from the headline, this is another expansive look through history, nature, science, and the arts, using gold, silver, platinum and copper, [...]
Eternal Sculptures II's second issue is based on an amazing piece of work by Genoese artist, Francesco Queirolo After a fine five-coin run, Powercoin's 'Eternal Sculptures' series, that debuted in 2016, ended, but its popularity meant it soon returned, but using a new format. The transition from two-ounce silver, to three ounces, has brought with it [...]
The third issue in Dutch producer Numiscollect's 'Our Earth Ecosystems’ series is available to order now, and following Polar, and Rainforest issues, we move on to 'Deserts', likely something coming to a region near you in the next fifty years... The range features a look at the typical flora and fauna associated with one of the major ecosystem types [...]
