It seems PAMP/MTB are continuing to stake out their claim to the more unusually shaped coins after a 2020 that saw PEZ, Giants of the Galapagos Islands, and Hunters of the Sky/Deep. We've already had Sweethearts and Fender guitar picks, so it's of little surprise to see the Galapagos series style appear with a new subject for [...]
Once one of the hottest series in the coin world, driven by the phenomenal success of the debut Red-back Spider coin, Deadly & Dangerous is still going strong after 15 years. It isn't slowing down, with this week seeing the 16th coin in the series making an appearance. A one-ounce, proof with colour series issued for Tuvalu, each [...]
CIT Winter Launch: Legendary gold disc of an Incan Sun God springs back to life in miniature form There's still a relative dearth of coins featuring the old Mesoamerican cultures, which is a shame, because everything from their legends and iconography, to their architecture, is striking and fascinating. Numiscollect did an excellent Aztec Calendar coin a [...]
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 [...]
CIT have long had a presence in the lucky coin genre, its annual four-leaf clover adorned 'Ounce of Luck' remaining popular. This year, they've decided to mix things up a bit with new effort leveraging the abilities of the enhanced Samrtminting to enable very high relief. A Ladybird (or Ladybug in some place in the world), is [...]
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 [...]
We're obviously swamped with new releases at the moment, so quite a few will be on our Quicklooks, just to try and 'surf the wave'. That doesn't mean only the lesser coins will be covered this way, as you can see here. Woodland Spirits is in one of CIT's less ambitious formats, a simple 1oz coloured silver [...]
CIT Winter Launch Day: Tiffany Art is back in style with a new focus on the great cities, starting with Paris One of the all-time giants of the modern numismatic world, Tiffany Art recently wrapped up its long journey through the world's architectural styles, but it's already back with a new style and a new focus. [...]
CIT Winter Launch Day: The joys of the open road adorn CIT's third celebration of transport An annual series starting in 2019 with a lovely nautical anchor design, followed in 2020 with a cool radial-engined aeroplane propeller, now comes to the automobile world with 'Open Roads - Open Hearts'. A black proof range, replete with [...]
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 [...]
