The second of Germania Mint's own series in their coloured cast 2oz silver bar program, one used by many other producers to bring designs to market, was Gods, closely following the now complete Goddesses series of six designs. Gods is also a six-bar range, and we suspect one that was due to complete last year, and also [...]
Let's have a catchup of new pop-culture coin and foil releases from the masters of them, Agoro by the New Zealand Mint They've been busy little beavers down in New Zealand, where Agoro, the collectible department of the New Zealand Mint, is based, and it's been a while since we had a look, so combined [...]
The Royal Kraków Mint's series of cast two-ounce silver bars, under the Germania Mint program, continues to grow with the addition of the third of the bars in their African Big Five series. The two previous issues featured the lion and the elephant, and for this third release, it's another big cat - the leopard. These bars [...]
The Cretaceous extinction event that ended the reign of the dinosaurs is fertile inspiration for Numiscollect's latest silver coin Mass extinctions are short geological periods in which a large percentage of the Earth's biodiversity disappears, even down to microbial life. Our world has experienced at least five such events, the third of which, occurring at [...]
The Mint of Poland's long-running 'Treasures of World Painting' series of silver coin travels to a darker place with 'Dark Edition'. The series of square coins reproduces famous works of art, not just the iconic ones, but some of the more esoteric ones as well. Dark Edition kicks off with esoteric, and a piece of art that [...]
The Royal Mint continues in its quest to distil all of British history and culture down to its 50 pence coin range with the addition of a new coin featuring the most famous work of Australian-British author Pamela Lyndon Travers, 'Mary Poppins'. As always with the Royal Mint, this is all about the literary origins, and has [...]
Launched way back in 2003, to much acclaim, the Austrian Mint's innovative Niobium series was quite unlike anything else out there at the time. A silver ring, inset into which is a disc made of a metal called niobium. This is quite unusual in that it can be coloured using anodised oxidation, rather than requiring the application [...]
The signs of the zodiac, and goddesses from around the world feature on a new 5oz silver coin from Coins Australia, and the Perth Mint The signs of the zodiac are one of those perennial themes in the modern coin world, with one or two series in progress at any one time, but most of them [...]
Numiscollect continues to showcase the planets ecosystems with a numismatic look at the vibrant world of the coral reef The natural wonders of our planet have been a fertile breeding ground for some fine coins over recent years featuring geological wonders, amazing creatures, and the surrounding solar system. One of those has been Numiscollect's 'Our [...]
Powercoin debuts 'Other Life', a coin following the tranformation of a digital wireframe tiger, to its powerful reality With science pushing further and further into the natural world, and the merging of the two coming closer and closer to reality, it's of little surprise that imagery linking the two is becoming more commonplace. It isn't [...]
