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 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 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 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 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
AgAuShoot: 2024 Ragnarök: Sköll & Hati: Germania Mint kicks off a high-relief coin series themed around the Norse apocalypse Ragnarök, the Norse vision of the destruction of the entire cosmos, right down to the gods themselves, remains a common them in modern culture, often replacing the word Armageddon. It's an epic tale, and a pillar of [...]
Sherlock Holmes ‘A Study in Scarlet’ reveals itself on a new pair of silver coins from Mint of Gdansk A literary legend, British author Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, has captured the imagination of readers since he first appeared in 1887. Over the next four decades, a total of 4 novels, and 56 short [...]
Art Mint's look at '7 Groundbreaking Ancient Civilisations' continues with a journey to the Indus Valley cultures In November last year, Art Mint debuted a superb new coin showcasing the ancient Mesopotamian Sumerian civilisation, the first in a series of seven silver coins depicting some of the great cultures that pushed human society forwards. The [...]
