Last years beautiful silver bullion representation of St Michael's sword is joined by an even more stunning Sword of St. Gabriel To say we were impressed by the Sword of St. Michael last year would've been a bit of an understatement. It was a fully dimensional, beautifully detailed depiction of a sword, covered with a feathered [...]
The legend of Lady Godiva, and the origin of the 'Peeping Tom', are brought to life on a new high-relief silver coin for Chad Lady Godiva returns to the coin world with a new issue from South Korean producer, Coins Today. This is a full coin, issued for the Republic of Chad, not one of this [...]
Numiscollect's 'Archaeology & Symbolism' series returns to Buddhism with a three variant Manjushri Mandala coin Continuing to power into double figures with an eleventh release, Dutch producer Numiscollect's Archaeology and Symbolism has always been one of the more impressive series around today. These three-ounce silver coins journey around the world reproducing cultural artifacts from a [...]
T&S Coin follows Sparta with another great legend of the Ancient Greek world - the Trojan War It was only last December that we covered the Sparta release from T&S Coin and came away impressed by it. Today, we're looking at the newly released second issue themed around Ancient Greek history and mythology, Troy, more specifically, [...]
Excalibur, the sword of Arthurian legend, launches a new silver coin series from the Carpathian Mint One of the world's most popular stories from history is the Arthurian legend. Telling the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in Camelot, it's now firmly rooted in the cultural memory of British people, [...]
Pop-culture coins remain as popular as ever in numismatic circles. Here's a look at a small mix of recent issues from different mints. It's been a while since we did one of our pop-culture coin round-ups, mainly because we try to give things a break now and then for the sake of variety, and also because [...]
Art Mint hits a decade with its iconic Mandala Art series, and there's a stunning 10th anniversary special edition coin to celebrate After a decade of impressing us with the elegance of the designs, Art Mints superb Mandala Art series gets two releases for 2024, one is the expected tenth cultural issue, and a special one to [...]
Coin's Today adds strikingly original new silver coins featuring Iberian ceramic tiles and art carved into a book Coins Today continues its march to cover some truly unique subjects in its various silver ranges, with this new pair. No stackable bullion this time, but one is an undenominated piece, and the other a full coin, issued [...]
Beauty and the Beast, that classic tale of deep love over superficiality, is brought to life on T&S Coin's latest silver coin Last year, T&S Coin debuted a beautifully designed 'Behind the Mask' coin, built around the idea that evil may hide in plain sight behind a beautiful facade. Their latest coin flips that on [...]
A giant of the literary and film worlds, irrespective of genre, J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ sequence has topped bestseller lists around the world for decades, They made the move to the big screen in 2003, with an epic trilogy helmed by Peter Jackson, which amassed 17 Oscars (including a staggeringly 11 out of 11 [...]
