Hokusai's iconic Japanese woodcut print 'Great Wave off Kanagawa' is the latest copper/silver micropuzzle coin We're big fans of Powercoin's Micropuzzle Treasure series, which employed Smartminting to recreate an unfinished puzzle of a piece of art. Now four coins old, it was joined by a similar series from Numiartis that has seen two releases to date. [...]
Royal Mint debuts the second of three trilogies of 50p coins celebrating the classic childrens books 'Winnie the Pooh' Last year, the Royal Mint debuted what was the first three coins in a nine-coin, three year program dedicated to the world of literary pair A.A. Milne and E.H. Shephard. The former the writer, the latter the [...]
PMC leverages its innovative 'Bi-Metal Max' minting technique to showcase Vincent van Gogh's legendary 'Starry Night' It goes without saying that Vincent van Gogh is one of the worlds greatest painters. Widely admired for his eclectic style and use of colour, his body of works has few peers. Singapore-based Precious Metal Collectors have already dipped a [...]
Numiartis has showcased four Greek gods in its groundbreaking series and now the big daddy, 'Zeus' steals the limelight It was with the debut of the first in the Gods series from Numiartis back in 2017, that collectors took notice of a new wave of ancient lythology coins from the Mint of Poland. That stunning [...]
Combining the popular astronomy and mythology genres, Mint XXI's excellent 'Planets & Gods' series sees two new issues, bringing the range up to seven in total. This three-ounce antiqued silver coin series puts a high-relief depiction of the ancient god that gave its name to a planet, overlaid onto a coloured image of the planet itself.A cool concept [...]
The Witcher goes gold. All-new companion series to the chunky silver coins debuts with 'The Last Wish' WIth Peter Jackson's epic Lord of the Rings movie trilogy having resurrected fantasy as a viable genre, and Game of Thrones having done the same for television, it's of little surprise that the big media companies starting casting a [...]
A round up of issues from Russia for the first half of 2021 - War, Religion and History As promised, here's the second of our round-ups of coin releases from the major Eastern European Mints for the first half of 2021. We've already covered Slovakia, and probably one of the Baltic states will be next. These [...]
Shaped coin celebration of guitar legend Fender's 75th anniversary wraps with the iconic Telecaster In what looks to be an extremely popular franchise for MTB/PAMP, Fender guitar coins have brought us a neat and unusual homage to one of the music worlds most iconic brands. It started with the release of various silver guitar picks, which [...]
Powercoin's Micropuzzle Treasures returns with a vibrant work by Belarusian modern impressionist painter, Leonid Afremov Back with a second release this year, although this is a 2022 dated coin, Powercoin's much admired 'Micropuzzle Treasures' ditches the usual classics for a modern impressionist painter. Leonid Afremov was a Belarusian artist whoe migrated to Cancun in Mexico via [...]
As promised, here's the third coin in a row to feature the three-headed pooch, Cerberus, the guardian of the entrance to the underworld in Greek mythology. The Czech Mint coin was a simple proof coin that's part of their 'Mythical Beasts' series, and the second one was actually a Hades coin that happened to have [...]
