It was a decade ago that the hit television series Peaky Blinders had its debut, and PiK Coins celebrates in silver A wonderful television series, Peaky Blinders told the story of a criminal gang fighting for control of the streets of early 20th century Birmingham. Headlined by a brilliant Cillian Murphy, and with an outstanding [...]
The 2,600 year old Lydian Stater, possibly the world's first government issued coin, is reproduced for WCA's latest issue Introduced into the Lydian Empire by King Alyattes in the latter part of the 7th century BCE, the Lydian Stater is considered by most numismatic historians to be the first example of a state-issued coin in history, [...]
Precious Metal Collector's taps into the Christian religion with an exquisite Jesus cross silver coin One of the most well-known and historically significant stories of the last two millennia, the tale of the crucifixion of Jesus, and the resurrection, has shaped the world's most popular religion to this day. Also a significant figure in Islam, [...]
Fortuna, the Roman goddess of good luck and prosperity, is brought to life on a beautiful new silver coin from T&S It appears from our first looks at their debut releases, that T&S Coin have hit the ground running. We've looked at the 'Behind the Mask' release, and the 'Samson' coin, and found both to be [...]
Mint XXI's epic 36-coin Greek Mythology series releases its fifth wave with Hephaestus, Themis, and the Centaur After the launch of four phases from when Mint XXI launched its ambitious new 36 coin 'Greek Mythology' in late 2022, we now get our fifth. Each phase is a mix of the three weights that make up [...]
Precious Metal Collectors are back after a hiatus with a new copper-cored coin, Eight Dragon Buddha It's been a few months since we covered a new release from Singaporean producer, Precious Metal Collectors, but they're back with a new coin in their signature copper/silver hybrid range. The company has been very successful since it debuted a [...]
Now on its ninth incarnation, CIT's beautiful 'Evolution of Life' series of coins takes us on a journey through prehistory, depicting some of the amazing animals that have journeyed upon this planet over the last 500 million years. It does so in smartminted high-relief, using rose-gold gilded fossils still embedded within (antiqued silver) rock,The 2023 issue features the [...]
Probably our favourite lunar series of recent years, CIT's fully dimensional range has great design, a quirky attitude, and superb quality. For 2024, the lunar calendar has the dragon as its figurehead, the only mythological creature of the 12, and likely the most popular, if coin sales are any indicator. The dragon is brilliant, even including the [...]
The ancient hooligan, Hercules, strangles a bull for the seventh task of twelve in Niue's silver coin series This series of twelve coins produced by Coin Shoppe in Canada, and Magikos Coins in Poland, is struck by the Mint of Poland, and follows their classic format of two ounces of silver, high-relief, rimless, and antique finished. [...]
The biblical tale of Samson and the lion is the subject of a striking new silver coin We had a look at a new coin by Ukrainian coin designer Yuri Tikhonovsky, and issued by T & S Coin last week called 'Behind the Mask' and came away suitably impressed. It wasn't the only coin released last week, [...]
