The Ancient Egyptian worship of the Scarab inspires Mint XXI's elegant turquoise-inset silver coin Ancient Egyptian iconography is just incredibly beautiful, so tapping into that for modern numismatics is a bit of a no-brainer. While we always seem to see the distinctive architecture, it is the small items that have given us such a fascinating [...]
Stunning 'Dantes Inferno' coin followed up by the last book in the 'Divine Comedy' trilogy, 'Paradiso' One of our highlights of 2020, Dante's Inferno by Mint XXI was a stunning five-ounce silver coin that managed to encapsulate the first of Alighieri Dante's 'Divine Comedy' trilogy, perfectly. Lashings of high-relief, packed with detail and with a terrific [...]
Mint XXI pays tribute to the Japanese celestial sun goddess, Amaterasu, with an elegant new coin The next coin we're looking at from Mint XXI's World Money Fair release run is probably our favourite. The second in a series called 'Divine Faces of the Sun' it showcases the japanese Shinto goddess of the sun, Amaterasu. This [...]
We had a look at Mint XXI's excellent 'Shaolin Tiger' coin last week, but unusually for them, we had line renders rather than actual coin images. That's now been rectified and we've updated the article to include them. As you can see from the close-up picture above, it's everything we hoped. Check out the revised article at [...]
MintXXI @ WMF: Legendary Shaolin Kung Fu animal-inspired techniques are showcased, starting with Tiger Style UPDATED Shaolin Kung Fu is about as famous a martial art as you're ever going to see. Popularised by countless Chinese movies, often with hilarious, dynamic fighting, there are few that haven't heard of this fighting ethos. Movie lovers will no doubt [...]
Our second look at Mint XXI's new releases is a peek into the famous, and expensive, world of porcelain, here exemplified by a circa-250 year old blue and white 'Dragon Vase' from the Qianlong period. We've seen something vaguely similar a few years ago from the Mint of Poland, that involved embedding a porcelain miniature vase in a [...]
MintXXI @ WMF: A dynamic Dragon & Phoenix coin kicks off Mint XXI's first batch of 2021 coins in glorious style It isn't only CIT putting out some beautiful, top-end numismatics for the World Money Fair, but other AgAuNEWS favourites like Mint XXI, Numiscollect and more. Mint XXI have impressed us greatly over the last [...]
Mint XXI returns to its 'Warriors of Ancient China' series for a second historical legend, Zhang Fei What do you get when one of the best coin producers working today dives into one of the more popular subjects? When the producer is Mint XXI and the subject is ancient myths and legends, you get a coin as [...]
The heroic orbit of the Earth by Vostok-1 is marked with a superb coin portrait of the Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin After the stunning Dante's Divine Comedy coin a couple of weeks ago, Mint 21 is already back with another superb offering from a completely different time and place. The first manned orbit of the Earth was [...]
Mint 21 stuns with a brilliant silver coin commemoration of Dante's iconic work, 'Inferno' Details of this new coin was sent to us by Mint XXI yesterday and it was one of those times when you're genuinely blown away by what we were looking at. The Italian poet, Dante Alighieri has long been a popular [...]
