After a two-year hiatus, Numiscollect's Equinox and Solstice series, featuring ancient relationships to the sun, returns with the Chaco culture It was in late 2021 that Numiscollect debuted a new archaeology series, and it was a different to the usual subjects that have proliferated in modern numismatics over the last decade. Rather than the usual [...]
Artificial Intelligence returns to Numiscollect for a second series, and this time it's aliens Just a couple of months ago, we covered Numiscollect's first steps into AI-generated coin art with a humorous range of ten anthropomorphic cats and dogs coins. Depicting our favourite pets in human jobs, the ten coins had a mintage of just 199 [...]
Numiscollect's 'Growing Up' series has seen three designs so far, the lion, the stallion, and the Brown Bear. These are smartminted high-relief coins, with a black proof finish, and they feature an adult animal dominant on the reverse face, with the obverse focusing more on the young animal in its natural habitat, as well as depicting it [...]
Numiscollect employs artificial intelligence in its humorous, ten-coin look at cats and dogs replacing humans in everyday life The last couple of years has seen a revolution in the way that Generative Artificial Intelligence has permeated the internet. This isn't sentience, to be clear, with AI in its current form relatively simplistic, and limited in [...]
Numiscollect's 'Archaeology & Symbolism' series returns to Buddhism with a three variant Manjushri Mandala coin Continuing to power into double figures with an eleventh release, Dutch producer Numiscollect's Archaeology and Symbolism has always been one of the more impressive series around today. These three-ounce silver coins journey around the world reproducing cultural artifacts from a [...]
Numiscollect expands its Pointillism-style 'Dot-Art' coin series with a clever look at India's iconic Taj Mahal Developed by Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat and Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Signac, both Frenchmen working in Paris in the mid-1880’s, Pointillism was an artistic technique that built up an image using pure colours in small dots. This relied on the [...]
Numiscollect's 'Time Flies' silver coin series moves from trade and discovery, to humanities greatest love - Warfare Time Flies is a series of two-ounce silver coins from Dutch producer, Numiscollect, that takes an interesting look at the progress mankind has made through various fields of endeavours. The first coin was a neat look at discovery and [...]
Numiscollect continues its trek through Lost Civilisations with a stop-over at the MesoAmerican Mayan Empire The third release in Numiscollect's interesting 'Lost Civilisations' series has debuted, and after Phoenicia, and Babylon, we've leap-frogged the Atlantic Ocean to land in South/Central America, for a look at the ancient Mayan culture. To say that Mayan civilisation was long-lived [...]
Numiscollect dips back into the Fairy Tale world with a fourth issue - Alice in Wonderland That classic mind-bending tale of wonder in a mad world has returned to numismatics with the fourth in Numiscollect's 'Fairy Tales' series of three-ounce silver coins. Alice in Wonderland is a well known literary masterpiece, full of iconic scenes, and [...]
We've always had a soft spot for the crusades series from Dutch producer, Numiscollect. One of the first coins I ever purchased was the debut issue, and it was the subject of one of our earliest Coin Series Profiles. Initially, it comprised ten coins, following Christian Europe's attempts to retake the lands around Jerusalem, but a follow on [...]
