Powercoin debuts 'Other Life', a coin following the tranformation of a digital wireframe tiger, to its powerful reality With science pushing further and further into the natural world, and the merging of the two coming closer and closer to reality, it's of little surprise that imagery linking the two is becoming more commonplace. It isn't [...]
A terrific mix of historical themes mark out this week's round-up, and there's a Hot Wheels coin for good measure! (Week 46, 2024) Five new coins this week, headlined by a fantastic collaborative effort between Germania Mint and the Croatian National Bank. In fact, three of the five releases we're looking at here today have [...]
The esoteric coins keep coming! Legendary phones, AI, blingy eggs, and inspiring women (Week 45, 2024) Here we are again with our Friday collation of new coins, and while there are only four this time, it's certainly a varied mix. There's a new addition to Powercoin's look back at early tech, a highly unusual Artificial Intelligence design [...]
Here's our latest look at some of the standout new coin issues from various producers (Week 40 2024) As you know, we always try to cover as many new coins as we can, but the fact remains, the number of new releases every month is way more than we can handle. Moving forward on a [...]
Rome's extensive monumental history is mined for inspiration for the first in a new series of coins celebrating Italian landmarks Europe is awash with some of the finest architecture on the planet. Despite a tumultuous history of war and revolution, the continent remains a haven of truly iconic landmarks, and probably topping that list is Italy. The [...]
Powercoin combine the work of Gustav Klimt with one of WW2's most iconic photographs for their latest silver coin On 14 August 1945, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt was in New York's Times Square for Victory over Japan Day, the day that President Truman announced to the American people the surrender of Japan, and the end of [...]
Powercoin adds to its innovative embroidered take on iconic artwork with a terrific version of Van Gogh's Starry Night After moving from their award-winning jigsaw and puzzle based takes on fine art, Italian producer Powercoin tried their hand at reproducing one of those masterpieces in a new way - using the look of embroidery. In [...]
Powercoin continues its numismatic look back at retro technology with an homage to the first generation of the digital watch It was in the early 1970s that watches took their first tentative steps into the digital world, when the Hamilton Pulsar, complete with a red LED screen, debuted to much fanfare. Celebrities queued up to [...]
Powercoin launches a nostalgic look back at the tech that birthed our modern digital world, starting with the floppy disk We all have memories of the tech we grew up with, and the 70s to 90s were witness to a groundbreaking transformation from the analogue, to the digital age. It's hard to imagine just how [...]
The famous statue, the Lion of Lucerne, inspires two silver coins taking markedly different approaches to the subject Carved into a rock relief in Lucerne, Switzerland, the Lion Monument was designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen, and sculpted by Lukas Ahorn, in 1820-21. The subject was a strange and controversial one at the time, as it commemorated [...]
