Now on its ninth incarnation, CIT's beautiful 'Evolution of Life' series of coins takes us on a journey through prehistory, depicting some of the amazing animals that have journeyed upon this planet over the last 500 million years. It does so in smartminted high-relief, using rose-gold gilded fossils still embedded within (antiqued silver) rock,The 2023 issue features the [...]
Born in 1852, Catalonian, Antoni Gaudí, is one of those practitioners of his art, in this case architecture, that stands apart from almost everyone else within the same field. He did most of his work, an intoxicating blend of the natural and the spiritual, in Barcelona, combing flowing lines, bright mosaics, and soaring towers. His crowning achievement [...]
It was in 1586 the Ducat coin in the Netherlands had its debut, followed in 1659 with a silver version. The Royal Dutch Mint has produced many coins inspired by the original, including the 'Twelve Provinces' series, that ran from 2015 to 2019, and in 2020, following that with 'Dutch Castles'. What we're looking at here, is the [...]
Despite everything currently going on in this vast European country, Ukraine is still producing numismatics. The theme has, quite understandably, veered towards the current conflict, with other issues this year featuring the Armed Forces, and events, such as the criminal destruction of the Mariupol Drama Theatre. Called 'The Courage To Be', it celebrates the bravery shown [...]
The small national mints are often the source of some really outstanding coin designs, and this new coin from Slovakia is a fine example of a nature coin. Released to celebrate Vihorlat Protected Landscape Area, essentially a National Park, it features some of the flora and fauna indigenous to the region, and artist Roman Lugár, has done [...]
With a long history of nature coins, the Royal Canadian Mint has issued some beautiful designs over the years, none more so in our view, than the proof coins, free of gimmickry. What we're looking at here is a coin in the 'Great Hunters' series, featuring the apex predator, Grizzly Bear. It's a clean looking design, by [...]
All of our regular regulars can't help but be aware of the Chibi juggernaut. A Japanese concept called Super-Deformed (SD), it involves the depiction of characters with small bodies, and big heads. Other producers have also issued similar SD coins, like The Coin Company, and LPM Group, but joining that group earlier this year was the Perth [...]
Also getting a full reformatting was another Perth Mint, Chinese-themed bullion profile - Chinese Myths & Legends. This is similar in theme to the rectangular range we just looked at, but with a greater selection of subjects, not just the typical dragon, especially in solo form.The 2023 coin is called Dragon & Koi, and as you can tell [...]
There are four new Chibi coins added to the now giganormous profile of a series approaching 140 issues in just 3.5 years, and that's not including almost 25 gilded variant coins. It shows no signs of slowing down, either, with three more dropping on 19 September, and a further three in October, including a Thanos 2oz 'Mega-Chibi'. [...]
We're particularly proud of our Thematic Guides, which round-up coins, usually from multiple mints, based on the subject, rather than the series. Three of the biggest were updated last week. The first is the only single-mint one of the three, Star Wars, which compiles all the releases from the NZ Mint's licence, obtained when they got it [...]