Korea's Buddhist heritage is beautifully reproduced with Coins Today's latest half-kilo silver bullion bar Commissioned by pious people, votive steles in Korea were erected in courtyards and public spaces and were essentially stone tablets replete with carved scenes of Buddhist life and myth. A particularly fine example sits in Cheongju National Museum in Korea, one [...]
The fourth in the Crown Mint's Marvel Mini Hero series of shaped one-ounce coins joins Captain America, Iron Man, and Black Panther as it works its way through an ambitious 24-coin program. Like those, Thor Odinson is a very neat and well done depiction of a hugely popular character done in an almost TV animation style. It works [...]
Numiscollect's 'Growing Up' series of silver coins charting the life cycle of animals, continues with the Stallion A very pretty coin was launched by Numiscollect earlier this year, the first in its new 'Growing Up' series, which gave us a glimpse into the life-cycle of the King of the Beasts, the lion. Back with a second [...]
Art Mint's elegant 'Mandala Art' series returns for a seventh release with a striking Turkish inspired design We've long admired Art Mint's flagship 'Mandala' series of coins, and it's been a pleasure to watch it grow in ambition and intricacy since it debuted in 2015. The last two issues in particular, the Gothic and the Persian, [...]
The Royal Mint's retrospective of William Wyon continues with Gothic Crown, the third Great Engravers release After the juggernaut performance of the first two 'Great Engravers' coins, the third in the series has some giant-sized shoes to fill. William Wyon continues to provide the inspiration for the series, although this time he engraved a design [...]
Monet liked water lillies and painted hundreds of them. Numiartis picks a fine one for their latest puzzle coin Undoubtedly one of the world's great painters, Oscar-Claude Monet was the French painter that helped found, and gave the name to, the impressionist art movement. Impressionism has, as its central philosophy, the idea that art should take [...]
Histories great heroines are celebrated on a new high-relief coin series, and Chinese legend Mulan, kicks it off The Mint of Gdańsk is back with some new issues, and the first one we're looking at is the debut release in a new 2 oz, high-relief silver series called simply, 'Heroines'. As you can tell from the [...]
One of the big bullion hits this year, the first Germania Beast's coin from Germania Mint was a striking double-coin spread design featuring Fafnir, a dragon from Norse and Germanic mythology. A clever idea, beautifully realised, it rightly became a hit, with the special Germinus versions changing hands for high prices. We're just prepping a look at [...]
Exclusive preview: Coins Today is back with a new silver stacker and this time it's the Archangel Michael in battle with Satan If it wasn't plainly obvious from the unique Doggaebi Shield released in April of this year, Coins Today seems to have quite the knack when it comes to stackable silver rounds. This was further enhanced [...]
Mint XXI jumps back to Dante's 'Purgatorio' to finish up their outstanding 'Divine Comedy' trilogy of silver coins Undoubtedly one of the highlights of last year, Mint XXI's stunning Divine Comedy: Inferno, was a gorgeous interpretation of the classic Medieval Italian literary work by Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy is a three part work, so it [...]
