The East India Company brings ultimate bling to the coin world with a 3.6 kg gold coin adorned with almost 6.500 diamonds The death of Queen Elizabeth II still resonates, understandable given her 70-year reign. It's almost unimaginable to realise the vast majority of the world's seven billion people were born after she took the [...]
World Coin Appreciation debuts a trio of skateboard coins sporting beautiful 900 year old Chinese art Wang Ximeng was a Chinese painter from the Northern Song Dynasty, born in 1096 in Kaifeng, China, and dying just 23 years later, leaving behind a sparse body of work. However, that work left an enduring legacy in the [...]
Mint XXI's United Crypto States series of silver coins returns with a 7th issue, featuring the Statue of Liberty The United Crypto States coin series debuted in early 2022, with a Walking Liberty inspired design, and just 18-months later, is enjoying its seventh issue. The series is unusual in not having a country of issue, but [...]
World Exclusive! JVP is back with Che Guevara, a highly inventive, ten-variant look at the pop-culture icon Love him or hate him, and given his history, the latter would make more sense, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara has become one of the most iconic figures of the entire 20th century, perhaps of all time. He's a potent reminder of [...]
This is more of a test post, so bear with me. Every month or so, we usually do a round-up of all the guides that have been updated, but that often means it can be several weeks from updating to informing readers of it. Moving forward, we'll do one of these Quicklook modals on the day [...]
A journey through mankind's fascination with dragons continues with the fifth coin in a series by Numiartis Of all the legendary creatures of mythology, the dragon is the one that has inserted itself into the cultures of so many ancient civilisations around the world with ruthless efficiency. Why that is has been a question for the [...]
Parthava Coin seeks to raise awareness of our impact on the natural world with Endangered Animals: Asiatic Cheetah We've had an obvious affinity for coins that raise awareness of mankind's deplorable impact on the natural world, from way back when we first went live in 2013 (also ironically a cheetah) and through dozens of coins since. [...]
Spring Launch Special: CIT, MDM and Mint XXI take different approaches to the popular Lunar Dragon coin market The lunar market continues to be a regular fixture on the numismatic calendar, although less important than it seemed a decade ago. We stopped our annual round-ups back in 2019 after limited feedback on their usefulness, but a [...]
Art Mint's impeccable Mandala Art series draws cultural inspiration from the Indian subcontinent for its ninth issue We've made no secret of our admiration for Art Mint's long-running 'Mandala Art' series, and it's been great to see the series increase in detail over the years as modern minting technology has moved forward. Early issues had intricate [...]
The 18th century world of Chinese Tangram puzzles come to numismatics with Art Mint's playable silver coin Consisting of seven flat polygonal pieces, tangram is what is called a 'dissection puzzle' - one whose pieces can be recombined in different ways to form new shapes. Popularised in late-18th century China, although perhaps having its origins as early [...]
