The 12 Guides of Christmas: Number 4 - Numismatic Icons by CIT Coin Invest The fourth of our '12 Guides of Christmas' has just been published, and it covers possibly my favourite series of coins in production today. Numismatic Icons by CIT, is a modern refresh of some of the ancient world's [...]
Minigold's biggest cheerleader, CIT Coin Invest, expands its already wide and varied range with five new coins So what do we consider a minigold? Basically, gold coins under a gram in weight fall under this general classification, and it's become particularly associated with the 1/2 gram weight, as the majority of issues in this class tip [...]
CIT Autumn Launch Day: The Armillary Sphere, the Dragonfly, and the Eiffel Tower demonstrate CIT's technical and artistic ability in modern numismatics We've taken to picking out three noteworthy coins from CIT's quarterly seasonal releases to look at one launch day, and that's the case again for the last of the 2023 events - Autumn. [...]
CIT Autumn Launch Day: A riot of colour, high-relief, the natural world, history and science. And Cowboys... Never ones to disappoint, CIT today launch their last seasonal batch of new releases for 2023, and as always, it's a varied, and very high quality mix of styles and designs for all budgets. Some of the old series [...]
Now on its ninth incarnation, CIT's beautiful 'Evolution of Life' series of coins takes us on a journey through prehistory, depicting some of the amazing animals that have journeyed upon this planet over the last 500 million years. It does so in smartminted high-relief, using rose-gold gilded fossils still embedded within (antiqued silver) rock,The 2023 issue features the [...]
Probably our favourite lunar series of recent years, CIT's fully dimensional range has great design, a quirky attitude, and superb quality. For 2024, the lunar calendar has the dragon as its figurehead, the only mythological creature of the 12, and likely the most popular, if coin sales are any indicator. The dragon is brilliant, even including the [...]
CIT Summer '23: The Vexed Man, Charon the Ferryman, and the Grand Canyon showcase CIT's imagination After a quick wander through many of this talented producer's new coins from the Summer Launch, we've chosen three of them for a closer look. These aren't necessarily our absolute favourites, but they are all excellent, and more importantly, original. [...]
CIT Summer '23: Additions to classic series and exciting new designs. CIT flexes its design muscles with another outstanding launch We say this every time, and we mean it every time - CIT have launched another epic range of coins, this time for their Summer Launch 2023. As always, it's a wildly varied mix of [...]
Spring Launch Special: CIT, MDM and Mint XXI take different approaches to the popular Lunar Dragon coin market The lunar market continues to be a regular fixture on the numismatic calendar, although less important than it seemed a decade ago. We stopped our annual round-ups back in 2019 after limited feedback on their usefulness, but a [...]
Spring Launch Special: CIT releases a wide range of new issues, and here are three of our favourites It's Spring Launch time, and we're absolutely inundated with new coin issues from some of the industry's biggest producers, We obviously can't cover them all on release day (there are about 80 so far!), so we'll take three [...]
