CIT Winter Launch: Cernunnos The Horned God adorns the latest in the Isle of Mans striking Celtic Cross series Another favourite of ours, the Celtic Cross shaped mythology series takes one of the most popular genres in modern numismatics in a different visual direction. The shape of the coin is the most obvious diversion, and [...]
CIT Winter Launch Day: Leonardo da Vinci's 'Vitruvian Man' meets the high-tech world of x-rays A unique piece, not part of a current series, 'The Vitruvian man' is a striking look at one of the most recognisable works of art in human history. Painted by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490, it's been brought into sharp [...]
CIT Winter Launch Day: CIT's spooky 'Trapped' series continues its story and it has a vampire in it... Right, I'm going to straight up say that this is one of my favourite coin series from CIT. Strikingly original, and a clever demonstration of how fine detail can be realised using smartminting, there's nothing quite like [...]
CIT Winter Launch Day: Real Heroes - Firefighter remembers the sacrifice of 9/11 and more Following on from last years superb Fighter Pilot coin, the launch issue of the new 'Real Heroes' series, CIT delve into the civilian world with a celebration of the work of firefighters and a commemoration of an event that cost [...]
CIT bring a fine selection of new releases and enhanced variations to existing coins with their Autumn Launch programme Coroney has certainly changed the way some mints and producers are releasing their coins now,and we particularly like the way CIT have dealt with the disruption. Usually issuing for the major shows, they've now taken control of [...]
CIT's gorgeous Evolution of Life: Sinoraptor coin joins the ammonite with a reincarnation in one-kilo form via AllCollect Although this is the opening line of this article, regular readers will already know we're going to love this one! Coins featuring prehistoric life have always been a firm favourite. Fantastic subjects with a strong visual impact [...]
The Legend of Scylla and Charybdis follows Pandora’s Box in Powercoin’s distinctive silver coin series Pandora's Box is one of those mythical objects that has become a common reference in moden culture, so its choice as the first subject in Powercoins new silver coin series last April, was a clever one. A stunning coin, [...]
CIT’s Summer Launch coin videos show a fine selection of different designs As promised earlier today, we've collated all the new videos for CIT's Sumemr Launch into one place. Some great releases here. If you'd like to see more images of the coins, check out our earlier post, and we will be covering these [...]
Mountains, meteorites, sharks, Islamic architecture, Steampunk, fighter pilots, dinosaurs and rollercoasters. It can only be CIT's Summer Launch. We'll be taking a better look at most of these coins in the coming weeks, but here's a roundup of the big new Summer Launch coin range from probably the best producer in the [...]
Powercoin's Fear Tales returns with the sad and poignant tale of the Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen The dark and disturbing world of fairy tales returns to numismatics with the second in Powercoins 'Fear Tales' series of two-ounce silver coins. The series debuted last November with an attractive 'Little Red Riding [...]
