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 [...]
Numiscollect seek out candidates for the title of '8th Wonder of the World', with a coin featuring the Church of Saint George We're all very familiar with the Seven Wonders, including such iconic structures as the Great Pyramids of Giza, and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, but fewer know that it's actually called the Seven Wonders [...]
Mint XXI dives deep into the natural world for its Autumn Launch with four new coins, headlined by a stunning Rhino. One of our favourite producers, Mint XXI, has just released their new autumn collection, with over a dozen new issues. We'll cover them all in the coming weeks as we battle to get up [...]
Tina’s View, Coins Today’s innovative numismatic look at a tourist's journey around the world, debuts in Paris It's always good to see something genuinely different, and in numismatic terms at least, we reside in times when that is very much a reality. The latest emanates from South Korean producer, Coins Today, no stranger to innovation. The world's [...]
The Mint of Gdańsk has been busy. Here's a round-up of their latest coin issues, from witch trials, to nuclear war. In our continuing press to get on top of a mighty backlog of new issues, here's our latest round-up. This time around, we're looking at the recent output of the increasingly prolific Mint of Gdańsk, [...]
The Witcher: Time of Contempt continues the numismatic journey through Andrzej Sapkowski's fantasy classic The much loved world of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski 'The Witcher' series of fantasy novels has been successfully making the transition to the numismatic world since 2019. Working their way through the two short story collections, and six main novels chronologically, Mint of [...]
After last years Bitcoin homage, Mint XXI returns to the United Crypto States with a Dogecoin It's a tumultuous time for cryptocurrency, with the markets having taken a heavy battering, but it's still fighting, and still has a cultural hold, at least. Bitcoin is the big one, followed by Ethereum, but there are literally hundreds of [...]
The 'Imperial Art' historical architecture coin series continues it journey through time and place with a visit to Persia Similar in concept to CIT's seminal Tiffany Art series, Imperial Art is what we call an art-architecture coin, showcasing the aesthetic merits of some of the world's most admired forms of architecture. Imperial Art does it by showcasing [...]
Art Mint's exquisite 'Mandala' series returns with an eighth issue, drawing from the Art Nouveau movement In amongst the increasing numbers of popular culture, and bullion coins released onto the market these days, there remains a core of classically designed, elegant numismatics that rely on historical roots (like CIT's awesome Numismatic Icons series), or their sheer artistic [...]
