The arcane mysteries of the Tarot mark Pop Coin's first range to embrace the blind box concept. Will you be lucky? For over 600 years, a pack of cards called The Tarot, have been used to play games across parts of Europe, beginning in 1430s Italy, and spreading through Europe from there. In 18th century France, [...]
An intricately detailed Shield of Achilles is Precious Metal Collector's latest gilded silver coin First described in Homer's epic tale of the Trojan War, The Iliad, the Shield of Achilles was used by the Greek hero in his fight with Hector. It's the first known example of ekphrasis in the poetry of the Ancient Greeks, a [...]
Autumn marks the final big launches of 2026, and Mint XXI kicks us off with an outstanding selection of seven coins Some of the biggest independent producers have been issuing the bulk of their coins each year in four seasonal tranches, the latest of which, and the final one of the year, are the Autumn [...]
United Crypto States celebrates the US in its anniversary year with the help of a pair of American numismatic icons United Crypto States (UCS), has expanded their range of crypto-denominated proof coins further, with the debut today of a pair of timely 250th anniversary US-centric designs. They have a common obverse design, one used over the [...]
Parthava Coin releases a larger, gilded version of CITs epic three-ounce Thunder Dragon silver coin One of the best producers working today, CIT's seasonal releases are eagerly awaited by coin collectors globally, and the Winter Launch most of all. The 2026 selection was genuinelly first class, but one coin stood out for me above the [...]
Mint of MK dives into our favourite genre, dinosaurs, with a lightweight, but relatively huge Triceratops coin It's dinosaur time again, and you know we can't resist a dino-coin, especially one like this new issue from Mint of MK. This producer has a reputation for pushing boundaries, especially when it comes to fully dimensional designs, either [...]
Launched in April 2025, Folded Dreams is one of the most original coin series of recent years, taking the ancient paper folding art of Origami, and turning it into a series of dimensional coins. The first design was shaped just like a classic paper airplane, and that was followed by a paper boat, and then a [...]
Last Friday saw the 25th anniversary of the Al Qaeda attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York. The mainland United States hadn't experienced this level of casualties in a single event, almost 3,000 people, since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and the fact it was a terrorist attack shook the [...]
Germania Mint's award-winning Maltese symbols series releases its third design, this time the Pharaoh Hound While much of Germania Mints output has their own invented denomination of a Mark, meant to give their Germania historical world a measure of cohesion, which it does do effectively, they also issue coins in conjunction with the Central Bank [...]
The Ammonite launches Numiscollect's distinctive new Fossil-3D series of palaeontology silver coins First appearing in the Devonian period and evolved from an animal called a Bactrite, Ammonites roamed the seas from around 400 million years ago, and didn’t die out until 65mya, a staggering period given the comparatively infinitessimal time mankind has been around. At every [...]
