PiK Coins returns to the world of classic gangsters with the legendary outlaw lovers, Bonnie & Clyde We all know about the coin market's near-obsession with the ancient world as a theme for new releases, but we're constantly surprised, and not a little dismayed, at just how much of history is relatively neglected in comparison. There's [...]
Mint XXI launches its latest series, a 4-year, 3-weight, 36-coin dive into the vibrant world of Greek mythology It's fair to say the ancient world has been comprehensively mined for inspiration in the coin world, and with a standard of quality that's sky-high. Such luminaries as CIT, Mint of Poland, Mint XXI, Numiscollect, and more, [...]
Germania Beast's returns with the giant wolf from Norse mythology, Fenrir, in the latest coin spanning design Back after a very successful debut last year, Germania Beasts continues with another of the iconic creatures populating the old Northern European myths and legends. It was the dragon Fafnir, that became an integral part of the composer, [...]
Coins Today takes a detour from the past to the future with its latest space telescope inspired silver bullion stacker We've all been utterly enthralled by images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope since its deployment in 1990. It wasn't the first of its kind, but it was the most adventurous of them, and remains active [...]
Germania Week: Arminius, the destroyer of three Roman Legions, is the third of Germania Mint's 'Warrior's' coin series As overwhelmingly efficient and successful as it was, the Roman Army was not beyond getting a bloody nose now and then. Hannibal's victory at the Battle of Cannae (216 BCE) almost led to the collapse of Rome, and [...]
Last year, World Coin Appreciation debuted the first in its new series with the title, 'Mysteries of the World Latitude 30 North'. It's unusually specific, and clever, showcasing some of the great ancient cultures that have existed along, or near, the 30th Parallel North. There are quite a few, and the first issue was a very striking mask [...]
Innovative Persona Mask bullion stacker from South Korean producer, Coins Today, is joined by a second issue, a Guy Fawkes mask Coins Today's impressively varied range of stacker bullion continues to expand with the addition of the second in its 'Mask' range. Launching early-January this year, followed by a gilded variant in February, the Persona [...]
The Bank of China's iconic Panda coin is forty years old, and Powercoin issues 'Paladin Panda' to commemorate the occasion Putting in a first appearance way back in 1982, the Bank of China's now iconic Gold Panda bullion coin was joined a year later by a silver sibling. Excepting a single year, the coin has carried [...]
Hokusai's iconic 'Great Wave Off Kanagawa' artwork returns to coins with PMC's mighty Bi-Metal Max, copper-cored format Easily one of the most famous works of art in the world, The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Japanese woodcut artist, Hokusai, has become an icon, not just of the art world, but of modern culture in general. It's of [...]
Situated about 40 km south of the Turkish city of Izmir, Ephesus was an Ancient Greek city state, built from the 10th century BC by Greek colonists. One of the twelve cities that formed the Classic Greek Ionian League, Ephesus was particularly famous from the late 6th century BC, because of its impressive Temple of Artemis, now considered [...]
