Myths and legends, both old and new, are the focus of new releases from the Mint of Poland

By |2024-03-15T20:09:20+00:00March 15th, 2024|Categories: Culture, History, Coloured, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|

Myths and legends, both old and new, are the focus of new releases from the Mint of Poland Just as we did a couple of days ago with the New Zealand Mint, here, we're playing a bit of catch-up with some of the Mint of Poland's latest releases, specifically, their more ambitious designs. This mint [...]

The New Zealand Mint expands its pop-culture ranges, and ventures outside that genre with cowboys and tarot

By |2024-03-13T19:18:24+00:00March 13th, 2024|Categories: Culture, History, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

The New Zealand Mint expands its pop-culture ranges, and ventures outside that genre with cowboys and tarot It's been a while since we did a good round-up of the New Zealand Mints coins, so here's a long overdue catch-up on a more varied selection than they've had of late, encompassing some more ambitious pop-culture coins, [...]

Scottsdale Mint has been busy with additions to their Marlin, Mermaid, and Alien bullion coin programs

By |2024-03-11T19:09:55+00:00March 11th, 2024|Categories: Coloured, Gold, Nature, Science, Ruthenium / Rhodium, Silver, Cayman Islands, Ghana, Samoa, Scottsdale Mint|

Scottsdale Mint has been busy with additions to their Marlin, Mermaid, and Alien bullion coin programs Prolific bullion coin producer, Scottsdale Mint, has a catalogue of different series that puts most of the competition to shame. Everything from religion, through science-fiction, to, most popularly, nature, has a presence in the range. There's gold and silver, some [...]

A new Zodiac series, a snake-haired Medusa, a zombie samurai, and a nautical cat showcase MK and The Gold Village’s imagination

By |2024-03-07T14:18:57+00:00March 7th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Nature, Silver, Cameroon, Gabon, Mint of MK, Niue Island, The Gold Village|

A new Zodiac series, a snake-haired Medusa, a zombie samurai, and a nautical cat showcase MK and The Gold Village's imagination Mint of MK and The Gold Village continue their rapid expansion with another selection of new issues. You'd expect there to be either increased repetition, or a lowering of quality, perhaps, but it seems [...]

Numiscollect expands its Pointillism-style ‘Dot-Art’ coin series with a clever look at India’s iconic Taj Mahal

By |2024-03-06T17:20:57+00:00March 6th, 2024|Categories: Architecture, Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Palau, Numiscollect|

Numiscollect expands its Pointillism-style 'Dot-Art' coin series with a clever look at India's iconic Taj Mahal Developed by Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat and Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Signac, both Frenchmen working in Paris in the mid-1880’s, Pointillism was an artistic technique that built up an image using pure colours in small dots. This relied on the [...]

Deadly & Dangerous 19: Bluebottle proof silver coin (2024 Downies/Perth Mint)

By |2024-03-05T20:43:11+00:00March 5th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Gold, Nature, Silver, Downies, Niue Island, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|

One of the longest running series we've ever covered at AgAuNEWS, Deadly and Dangerous debuted in 2006 with the Red Back Spider, a coin that went on to garner enormous interest on the secondary market. It was a striking coin, but despite interest in the series reducing somewhat, no doubt due to the huge influx of competing designs, [...]

Le Grand Mint brings its esoteric sense of style to their debut selection of 2024 issues in bullion and proof ranges

By |2024-03-05T09:36:59+00:00March 4th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Lunar Calendar, Coloured, Gilded, Nature, Silver, Cameroon, Le Grand Mint, Liberia, Niue Island|

Le Grand Mint brings its esoteric sense of style to their debut selection of 2024 issues in bullion and proof ranges Over the last few years, German producer, Le Grand Mint, has built itself a reputation for some quite unusual designs, full of detail, and quite different to almost everyone else. The silhouette 'Evolution' nature series, [...]

The Gold Village brings the South American Greater Thornbird and its spiky nest to numismatic life

By |2024-03-01T15:00:10+00:00March 1st, 2024|Categories: Coloured, Nature, Silver, Gabon, The Gold Village|

The Gold Village brings the South American Greater Thornbird and its spiky nest to numismatic life Found throughout South America, the Greater Thornbird is an unusual avian, freckle-breasted, around 20 cm in length, and with a loud song. It got its name from the habit of building its cone-shaped nest in amongst thorny branches, adding [...]

Grand Admiral Thrawn & Poison Ivy Chibi silver coins (2024 New Zealand Mint)

By |2024-02-27T16:26:30+00:00February 27th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Our updating of various Coin Series Profiles continues today, with another pair of coins added to the New Zealand Mint's copious, and quirky range of pop-culture parodies. For those unaware, Chibi is based on the Japanese art-style called super-deformed, whereby a character is depicted with a huge, outsized head. There are now over 150 coins in this [...]

Enduring Soldiers 17: Zygmunt Szendzielarz ‘Lupaszka’ silver coin (2024 National Bank of Poland)

By |2024-02-27T12:26:09+00:00February 27th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Military, People, Silver, Narodowy Bank, Poland|

A long-running series from the National Bank of Poland, 'Enduring Soldiers Accursed by the Communists' is a celebration of the freedom fighters that gave their lives fighting the Soviet Union immediately after the end of the Second World War. Today sees the issue of the 17th coin in the series - Zygmunt Szendzielarz 'Lupaszka'. Each half-ounce sterling [...]

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