Continuing its journey around the world's most iconic buildings, CIT's outstanding 'Historical Monuments' series showcases the Taj Mahal With the World Money Fair in Berlin having concluded, it's time for us to start having a look at some of the impressive offerings that make up CIT's Winter Launch, which debuted there. What better place to [...]
Notre Dame cathedral is back at its magnificent best, and Allcollect have a stunning kilo silver coin to celebrate With the wonderful news that Notre Dame cathedral is almost fully restored back to its former glory, it's fortuitous timing that sees this gorgeous new release from Allcollect appear on the market. An iconic sight on [...]
The Great Wall of China continues to astound with CIT's topographical numismatic look at this legendary feat of construction When you think of the history of China, your mind likely wanders over to the Great Wall as its most iconic surviving structure. That history is considerably more interesting, and convoluted, than you might believe. Rather than [...]
It's always great to see the debut issue in a new series from the Czech Mint, who, like the Mint of Poland, have quite an outward looking policy when it comes to subjects. This time we have quite a rarity in that it's a three-ounce silver range, bigger than the mints usual offerings. The series of six coins [...]
The Treasurists debuts a numismatic interpretation of a panel from Lorenzo Ghiberti's almost 600 year old 'Gates of Paradise' in Florence Over the last few years, we've seen quite a renaissance when it comes to coins from Asian producers, not just in numbers, but also in the sheer breadth of subjects. Producers from Singapore, Japan, [...]
Groundbreaking French sculptor, Auguste Rodin's seminal work, 'Gates of Hell', joins Coin Today's expansive stackable silver range Widely considered to be the founder of modern sculpture, François Auguste René Rodin was born in Paris in 1840. He showed a strong artistic aptitude at an early age, and over his lifetime kept up a prodigious output, [...]
After Twelve Provinces, and Twelve Castles, the Royal Dutch Mint embarks on a silver Ducat look at Twelve Gates In 2015, the Royal Dutch Mint debuted its twelve-coin series of silver ducats themed around the same number of provinces that make up the Netherlands. Each one was struck in the classic ducat format of 28.25 [...]
Coins Today's stackable silver bullion range hits new heights of esoterica with a 13th century Armenian khachkar design Goshavank is a monastery nestled deep in the mountains of Armenia. Built on the site of a monastery destroyed in an 1188 CE earthquake, it housed a school founded by Mkhitar Gosh, who also aided in its [...]
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 [...]
Art Mint stuns with a five-ounce version of their homage to the Gothic magnificence of Notre Dame Cathedral Our love of Art Mint's 'Mandala Art' series is well documented here, but we also have a special affinity for it. It was only my second Berlin World Money Fair, back in 2015, and this site wasn't well [...]
