The iconic Ancient Egyptian Scarab is brought to life with CIT's gorgeous new dimensional silver coin There's never been a shortage of modern coins featuring the Ancient Egyptian dynastic civilisation, hardly surprising given it persevered for almost three millennia. The sheer scale of monumental construction, the wide variety of iconography and art, and the breadth of [...]
CIT's new Summer Launch is here and it's one of the best we've seen from this groundbreaking producer We really like CIT's new seasonal release programmes, roughly analagous to the pre-Covid show scene, and it always brings with it a terrific selection of some of the best minting technology can provide, along with inventive and original [...]
Powercoin's Micropuzzle Treasures returns with a vibrant work by Belarusian modern impressionist painter, Leonid Afremov Back with a second release this year, although this is a 2022 dated coin, Powercoin's much admired 'Micropuzzle Treasures' ditches the usual classics for a modern impressionist painter. Leonid Afremov was a Belarusian artist whoe migrated to Cancun in Mexico via [...]
The Cyborg Revolution is here! Powercoin land ‘The Alien’ to launch a new five issue series Oh well, a few days off turned into a few minutes as we almost immediately got a new coin to report on! As it's a cyborg, I'm taking a break from taking a break and here we are. We always [...]
The cat god Bastet ushers in the second series of Egyptian Symbols coins and we have a sneak peek With a casual launch schedule running from 2014 to 2017, Egyptian Symbols from numiartis was an attractive series of three, 3oz silver coins bringing to life some of the more famous motifs of Ancient Egyptian Culture. The [...]
The Pagoda of Many Treasures, the Dabotap, is showcased on a new three ounce smartminted silver coin Situated in Gyeongju, South Korea, at the temple of Bulguksa, is the Dabo Pagoda. Built during the United Silla period in 751, the 10 metre tall Dabotap and the temple constitute one of the most famous locations in Korea. This [...]
Numiscollect continues its numismatic journey through the Final Frontier with the Milky Way It was in November 2019 that Numiscollect debuted the first in its 'Space: The Final Frontier' series of astronomy coins. Starting out as big as they could, they went with 'The Universe' for the debut. This time around, we've dropped down to something [...]
Powercoin ties up its beautiful Eternal Sculptures series with an epic five ounce Bernini-themed special A nice surprise today sees Powercoin release one final 'tribute' piece in its extremely elegant 'Eternal Sculptures' series of fine art coins. Launched in 2016, the five-coin series showcased some of the world's greatest sculpted masterpieces in a unique way. Employing [...]
Reverie by Mucha is the latest in Powercoins hit Micropuzzle Treasures silver coin series Powercoins hugely popular Micropuzzle Treasure art-themed series is back with a third installment, and it's an artist I don't remember seeing on a coin before, Alfons Mucha. A member of the Art Nouveau movement, he has a unique style and makes a refreshing [...]
One of the pioneers of shaped, non-geometric dimensional coins, CIT have issued some striking examples over the last few years. As they've become more comfortable with the process, we're starting to see coins of this style at the more affordable end of the market. Where better to go next than a perennial staple of CIT's annual lin-up, [...]
