A culture and two legendary people from ancient and medieval history are the stars of three new coins from three different producers History, whether it be the great civilisations, epic battles, or pivotal individuals, has always been a choice subject for modern numismatics, which goes some way to explaining why we've covered so many of [...]
Powercoin combine the work of Gustav Klimt with one of WW2's most iconic photographs for their latest silver coin On 14 August 1945, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt was in New York's Times Square for Victory over Japan Day, the day that President Truman announced to the American people the surrender of Japan, and the end of [...]
Renaissance genius, Leonardo da Vinci, and his amazing works, are the subject of Mint XXI's latest silver coin for Cameroon Mint XXI has released its latest seasonal batch of coins, always eagerly awaited, and the first one we're looking at is the spiritual successor to a fine coin they released back in 2019. That one [...]
Germania Mint's two-ounce coloured cast bar program has been a hit, there's little doubt of that, but the popularity is built on the back of quality imagery, and the range of producers now taking part has meant that remains at a high standard. However, like in some coin formats, there's a heavy leaning on the world of myths [...]
The coloured cast bar tsunami continues with the completion of 7 Deadly Sins, an owl, a bull, Chicago, and a surprise London feline There seems to be quite a bit of interest in the coloured cast-bar market at the moment, kicked off by Germania Mint's program, one we also published a Bullion Profile for, so here [...]
PiK Coins takes a gamble on its new three-ounce Roulette silver coin proving a big hit Meaning 'little wheel' in French, Roulette originated in 18th-century France, and was derived from an earlier Italian game called Biribi. The roulette wheel is segmented with numbered catchments, and a ball is introduced while the wheel is spinning. It eventually [...]
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes story gets the numismatic treatment with Spectres new 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band' Very possibly the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes sprang from the imagination of British author Arthur Conan Doyle. First appearing in 1887, he was quite an unusual character for the time, using [...]
Art Mint's look at '7 Groundbreaking Ancient Civilisations' continues with a journey to the Indus Valley cultures In November last year, Art Mint debuted a superb new coin showcasing the ancient Mesopotamian Sumerian civilisation, the first in a series of seven silver coins depicting some of the great cultures that pushed human society forwards. The [...]
Artificial Intelligence returns to Numiscollect for a second series, and this time it's aliens Just a couple of months ago, we covered Numiscollect's first steps into AI-generated coin art with a humorous range of ten anthropomorphic cats and dogs coins. Depicting our favourite pets in human jobs, the ten coins had a mintage of just 199 [...]
Art Mint takes us through the four elements and their elementals with its new silver coin series, starting with the gnomes of Earth Earth, air, fire and water, the four elements that have entered the popular consciousness as the building blocks of the natural world. Dating back to the Hellenistic period, it was the Greek [...]
