The Swiss Mint has launched two new coins, one in gold and one in silver, and as this isn't a hugely prolific mint, it seems an opportune time to catch up with their ouput from the first half of this year. The coins all follow a single format for silver and a single format for gold, [...]
Another of the excellent coin series issued by the Monnaie de Paris (Paris Mint) is one called UNESCO: The Banks of the Seine , a range of silver and gold coins that depict “world heritage cultural property sites”, as classified by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). For the purposes of this coin series, [...]
I think we're not alone in believing that some of the very best that the modern numismatic world has to offer are in the field of architectural coins. Ever since Coin Invest Trust kicked off the genre with its award-winning Tiffany Art coin in 2004, there have been multiple new series from various mints entering the [...]
The French mint, the Monnaie de Paris have produced some beautiful coins over the years, a favourite of ours being the superb From Clovis to Republic series, along with plenty of others. Like most of the big national issuers of coins such as the Royal Mint, The US Mint and the Central Bank of Russia, the [...]
Art-architectural coins continue riding their wave of popularity, with the genre invented by CIT and it's iconic Tiffany Art range now enjoying so many good entrants it's hard to pick favourites any more. Some series have spawned some quite amazingly good designs, a perrenial favourite being the Mineral Art Taj Mahal 2oz coin. Spanish producer Moneda [...]
One of the premiere series of art-architectural themed coins, Crystal Arts from the Mint of Poland is now on its fourth release after the series debut in 2012 with 'Secrets of Liechtenstein', ironically looking at the country in which is based Coin Invest Trust (CIT), arguably the most influential coin producer in this style of coin with their [...]
Art-architectural coins have been a big collector favourite over the last few years, so perhaps it's only fitting that we get one more in before the end of 2015, and from a series that has had only a single entrant to date. Famous Opera Crystal is tightly focused on the worlds great opera houses and debuted [...]
The fourth coin in the New Zealand Mints Forgotten Cities series of proof silver coins has launched and headed for what is probably the most impressive Roman Ruin in the world today, the spa town of Pompeii. The first coin in the series depicted Machu Picchu, followed by the ancient city of Petra, and [...]
A coin that was announced a few month's ago, the second in the Mint of Poland's Winter Palace series of art-architectural coins has recently become available. The first coin came out in 2014 and featured the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg. It seemed to be well liked, although discussion about it was muted compared [...]
One of the best of the art-architecture coins released last year was an unexpected one fom the Mint of Poland featuring something we're surprised hasn't come up before, the ancient world. Depicting one of the early powerhouse civilisations from the Middle East, Imperial Art: Mesopotamia was the first in a new annual series looking at the [...]
