Two fine producers, the Lithuanian Mint, and Le Grand Mint, team up for a high-relief depiction of the four seasons

By |2025-02-03T16:08:06+00:00February 3rd, 2025|Categories: Art & Literature, Inserts, Silver, Le Grand Mint, Liberia, Lithuanian Mint|

Two fine producers, the Lithuanian Mint, and Le Grand Mint, team up for a high-relief depiction of the four seasons Spring, summer, autumn and winter - the four seasons that make up the cycle of our planet - have long been a popular trope in the artistic world, and numismatics are no different. The latest offering [...]

Berlin WMF 25: Time and space, along with a little death, mark our second look at Mint XXI’s latest winter launch

By |2025-01-23T23:27:23+00:00January 23rd, 2025|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, Coloured, Gilded, Nature, Inserts, Science, Silver, Cameroon, Ghana, MintXXI|

Berlin WMF 25: Time and space, along with a little death, mark our second look at Mint XXI's latest winter launch After yesterday's look at three of the new coins from Mint XXI's winter release in time for the Berlin World Money Fair, we're back for another three, and this time, it's a solitary addition to [...]

Representing the Fire Elemental, the Salamander concludes Art Mint’s four issue Elementals silver coin series

By |2025-01-17T21:01:06+00:00January 17th, 2025|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Art Mint, Inserts, Silver, Cameroon|

Representing the Fire Elemental, the Salamander concludes Art Mint's four issue Elementals silver coin series Art Mint's four-coin showcase of the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, concludes with the elemental associated with fire. This pretty series is based around the ideas postulated by the 16th century Swiss physician, alchemist-philosopher, Paracelsus, created during the [...]

Egypt, one of the greatest civilisations in history, is the third subject of Art Mint’s award-winning silver coin series

By |2025-01-15T23:20:40+00:00January 15th, 2025|Categories: History, Coloured, Art Mint, Inserts, Silver, Cameroon|

Egypt, one of the greatest civilisations in history, is the third subject of Art Mint's award-winning silver coin series After an award-winning first issue in which Art Mint debuted a superb new coin showcasing the ancient Mesopotamian Sumerian civilisation, which they followed up with an equally impressive look at the Indus Valley culture. The third coin [...]

Hollywood’s anamorphic lens concept comes to numismatics with a striking new 10th anniversary ten ounce silver coin from Le Grand Mint

By |2024-12-19T15:36:09+00:00December 19th, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Inserts, Silver, Liberia, Le Grand Mint|

Hollywood's anamorphic lens concept comes to numismatics with a striking new 10th anniversary ten ounce silver coin from Le Grand Mint Our story starts, weirdly enough, on the Western Front during the First World War, when French inventor, Henri Jacques Chrétien, developed an optical system called Hypergonar, to allow tank crews to have a wider view [...]

The Air Elemental, the Sylph, adorns the third of four coins in Art Mint’s beautiful two-ounce silver coin series

By |2024-12-10T14:44:47+00:00December 10th, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Art Mint, Inserts, Silver, Cameroon|

The Air Elemental, the Sylph, adorns the third of four coins in Art Mint's beautiful two-ounce silver coin series Art Mint continues its four-coin journey through the four elements of earth, air, fire and water, with Sylph, the Air Elemental. We've covered the first two issues, Earth/Gnome, and Water/Undine, in previous articles, and Air/Sylph follows [...]

The next three planets join Mint XXI’s numismatic travels through our solar system using Earth’s geology

By |2024-10-28T12:34:38+00:00October 28th, 2024|Categories: History, Nature, Inserts, Science, Silver, Ghana, MintXXI|

The next three planets join Mint XXI's numismatic travels through our solar system using Earth's geology Mint XXI continues its voyage through our wonderful solar system with their range of coins combining a numismatic base, and a geological orb. We've already seen Earth, Mars, and Mercury, and now Jupiter, Uranus and Venus join the range. [...]

Art Mint’s ‘Four Elementals’ silver coin series continues with water, and the Undine, a nymph whose fate is tied to loyalty

By |2024-09-13T13:48:46+01:00September 13th, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Art Mint, Inserts, Silver, Cameroon|

Art Mint's 'Four Elementals' silver coin series continues with water, and the Undine, a nymph whose fate is tied to loyalty Earth, air, fire and water, the four elements that have entered the popular consciousness as the building blocks of the natural world. Dating back to the Hellenistic period, it was the Greek philosopher Empedocles [...]

After a two-year hiatus, Numiscollect’s Equinox and Solstice series, featuring ancient relationships to the sun, returns with the Chaco culture

By |2024-09-09T19:26:55+01:00September 9th, 2024|Categories: Culture, History, Coloured, Inserts, Silver, Palau, Numiscollect|

After a two-year hiatus, Numiscollect's Equinox and Solstice series, featuring ancient relationships to the sun, returns with the Chaco culture It was in late 2021 that Numiscollect debuted a new archaeology series, and it was a different to the usual subjects that have proliferated in modern numismatics over the last decade. Rather than the usual [...]

12 Zodiac Signs Capricorn: The Goat 5 oz silver coin (2025 Mint of MK)

By |2024-09-07T15:42:12+01:00September 7th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Culture, Coloured, Inserts, Silver, Mint of MK, Niue Island|

The tenth of Mint of MK's extravagant Twelve Constellations, or Twelve Zodiac Signs series is now available to order, and it's Capricorn, the goat with the fishtail. The tail originates from the Ancient Greek story of Pan, who, while trying to avoid the monstrous Typhon, began to change into an animal shape. He jumped in the water [...]

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