Emporium Hamburg's second series of Prehistoric Life bullion coins continues with one of the oceans greatest ever predators - Megalodon The subject of Prehistoric Life, and this second series, is reason enough for it to be one of my favourite bullion coin ranges, but it's pleasing to see that Emporium Hamburg have done such a terrific [...]
Powercoin taps into the ancient trading links between Egypt and India, with a cultural mix for five new coins It's a little discussed fact that Ancient Egypt had relatively well-developed links with India. Sailing via the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean, vessels plied their trade for centuries, carrying silk, precious stones, and spices from [...]
The landmark sounds from history feature on Sounds of Legacy, a silver coin with an audio link to Armstrong's moon landing speech "One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." With these words, astronaut Neil Armstrong opened up the next phase in human exploration by stepping from the Apollo 11 lunar lander onto [...]
Precious Metal Collectors celebrates the open road, a culinary classic, and the works of the great painters, with four new coins Singaporean producer, Precious Metal Collectors, have always impressed us with their signature Bi/Tri-Metal minted fine art coins, of which there are now over fifty examples. Clearly, the concept is a popular one, and having had [...]
Live Long and Prosper. The iconic Vulcan salute from Star Trek heads up the latest selection of releases from Agoro We haven't caught up with Agoro, the collectible department of the New Zealand Mint, for a while, but we've noticed they seem to be getting a bit more adventurous of late, and we love that here. [...]
Coins & More debut their second 'Figures of Death' coin, with a stunning depiction of the Aztec lady of death, Mictēcacihuātl To say that the concept of death has been an outsize influence on many civilisations throughout history would be something of an understatement. From the earliest cultures of Mesopotamia, and across all inhabited continents, whole societies [...]
Powercoin's quirky Techstalgic silver coin series continues with the ultra-iconic music cassette player, the Walkman Powercoin, known for its range of quirky coins, has dipped once again into our technological dark age for the fourth in its unique 'Techstalgic' series. This range brings, to modern numismatics, some of the earliest steps in mass-produced consumer electronics that [...]
CIT and the Cook Islands, bring us coins for Yellowstone, the Italian peninsula, Machu Picchu, and the Cook Islands Here's our second look at CIT's Summer Launch of new coins, released to coincide with the ANA World's Fair of Money, which has just wrapped up. We had a look at four quite unique designs on [...]
Born into an artistic family on 20 September 1925, to a painter father, and a sculptor mother, Džemma Skulme inherited that talent, blossoming into an exceptional painter who helped define Latvian national identity. It was in the 1960s that she began to incorporate defiant symbolism into her work, during a time when Latvia was fully controlled by [...]
CIT's Summer Launch debuts and we take a first look at it with four of the amazing coin designs they've created We've covered most of Mint XXI's Summer Launch, and had a little dig into some others, but now it's the turn of the producer that has probably won more awards than another other private mint, [...]
