Chinese temple protectors, the Guardian Lions, emblazoned on new CIT silver coin duo Earlier this year, Coin Invest Trust (CIT) launched a fine-looking coin called the Laughing Buddha. Struck in two ounces of silver, smartminted and selectively gilded, it rapidly sold out at the mint. Fast forward to the just passed Beiijing [...]
CIT bring the new banknote style coin format to gold with a Tanzanian Big Five set Following on from the successful launch of their silver Skyline Dollars, Coin Invest Trust have taken the coin note concept into our other favourite precious metal – gold. Managing to stretch to the same cavernous 150 [...]
Palau's perennial Ounce of Luck coin is upgraded to high-relief with a new flagship design The four-leaf clover has been an icon of luck for ages, although nobody is sure how the superstition got started. With only around 1 clover in every 5,000 having four leaves instead of the usual three, you [...]
CIT expand their banknote style coins to epic new sizes with a Waldseemuller map naming America A relatively new concept in modern numismatics, ultra-thin banknote-style coins have grown in popularity since their debut last year. Usually 150 x 70 mm in size and weighing around five grams, the concept is a little [...]
A striking portratit of reformer Martin Luther is the latest demonstration of smartminting prowess It's become clear to collectors that the smartminting process developed by Coin Invest Trust (CIT) and B.H. Mayer has brought new levels of relief and/or detail to the numismatic world. There are a growing range of coins garnering [...]
Perennial favourite Marine Life Protection coins series wraps up with a superb two-coin finale Marine Life Protection is one of the oldest commemorative coin programmes of recent years, starting back in 1992 and thus enjoying its 25th anniversary in 2017. Coin Invest Trust have decided to call time on the series but [...]
Iconic Egyptian scarab symbolism celebrated on striking liimited box sets of silver coins from CIT A surprise release at this months ANA show was a second set of Scarab coins from Coin Invest Trust. Following on from a debut set released at the World Money Fair in Berlin back in late January, [...]
Magnificent Life series heads into the undergrowth with the iconic Cobra snake Along with Evolution of Life, Magnificent Life was a new series that debuted at the ANA show in 2015 and signalled that CIT were not going to be saving all the best stuff for the World Money Fair in Berlin [...]
Smartminting pushed hard with Mount Everest, the second 7 Summits silver coin One of the biggest modern commemorative coin programs has been Coin Invest Trust's attractive Mountains and Flora series. One of their basic series, a simple coloured sterling silver coin, it nevertheless proved popular enough to run for 61 issues between [...]
The Timbuktu-landed Chergach is the latest impact meteorite adorned coin from CIT After enjoying a flurry of releases over the last few years, the number of meteorite coins has lessened recently. It's fitting that a series that spawned the genre continues on and maintains a standard reached by few others. Coin Invest [...]
