The Perth Mint debuts one of the bullion calendar highlights, the seventh Lunar Series III design, the Year of the Horse. One of the absolute legends of the modern numismatic world, the Perth Mint's Lunar Series has been going since 1996, when Lunar Series I, specifically the Year of the Mouse, debuted. It wasn't until 2000, [...]
CIT and the Cook Islands, bring us coins for Yellowstone, the Italian peninsula, Machu Picchu, and the Cook Islands Here's our second look at CIT's Summer Launch of new coins, released to coincide with the ANA World's Fair of Money, which has just wrapped up. We had a look at four quite unique designs on [...]
Born into an artistic family on 20 September 1925, to a painter father, and a sculptor mother, Džemma Skulme inherited that talent, blossoming into an exceptional painter who helped define Latvian national identity. It was in the 1960s that she began to incorporate defiant symbolism into her work, during a time when Latvia was fully controlled by [...]
CIT's Summer Launch debuts and we take a first look at it with four of the amazing coin designs they've created We've covered most of Mint XXI's Summer Launch, and had a little dig into some others, but now it's the turn of the producer that has probably won more awards than another other private mint, [...]
Hermes Winged Staff is the third of Coins Today's 'Divine Weapons' and the Twinfang Daggers join them Coins Today are back with another new pair of silver items, and as you'd expect from this South Korean producer, they're both a long way from being standard rounds. One is a novelty item, with a military leaning, [...]
One of nature's biggest ever cats gets one of numismatics biggest coins. Smilodon debuts on MDM's hybrid metal format Double Silver Giant, a series of big copper/silver hybrid coins, is back with its sixth annual release. The first four coins were buried deep in the prehistoric past, but the 2024 coin jumped forward to the [...]
The end of dragons, the light of a god, and an eagle hits 250. Our second look at Mint XXIs Summer coin launch We had a look at three of the seven coins issued by Mint XXI for their Summer Launch last Friday, and here, we're focusing our attention on three more of them. The [...]
Mint XXI debuts its Summer Launch, with stunning Bison art, Napoleon's attempt for European dominance, and chess skills With the ANA show rapidly approaching, many of the bigger independent producers are launching their summer catalogues, and that should continue through next week. Joining the rush today, is one of the most impressive producers working today, Mint [...]
Powercoin have spent almost a decade playing around with some of the finest works of art in the world, from Michelangelo to Vincent van Gogh. Turning iconic works into mosaic, puzzles, and embroidery on their coins, they've created something quite unique in a numismatic market often over-served with fine art reproductions, and it's been popular as a result.Their [...]
Parthava Coin’s continues apace with its five-issue series of one-ounce silver foils, with the launch of the fourth in the collection. Each of these expansive foils has 35 times the surface area of the typical 40 mm silver coin, so artwork really gets a chance to shine, and with these coming in at a very similar size [...]
