The Royal Canadian Mint has a history of issuing some extremely attractive kilo-class coins, not simply bigger versions of smaller coin designs, but one-offs meant to be seen at the typically circa-100 mm diameters common to this weight class. At 102.1 mm across, the RCM's latest chonker actually carries a design that would look equally at home on [...]
Evil can hide behind beauty, is the lesson imparted by T&S Coin's stunning new 'Behind the Mask' silver coin Formed earlier this year when Ukrainian coin designer Yuri Tikhonovsky, admired here for his outstanding portfolio, and Evaldas Stralkus, a former director at the Lithuanian Mint, joined forces, T & S Coin have hit the ground running with [...]
The LPM 'Gods of Olympus' bullion recreation of the Perth Mint originals ventures into new territory with Ares The seventh bullion version of the Perth Mint's iconic 'Gods' series of antiqued numismatics has launched, and has veered away from the original numismatic series for the first time. The bullion range has previously taken the designs from the [...]
The Lithuanian Mint showcases its broad talents with a selection of coins from ancient gods to the circus A mint we've covered many times before, but still underserved a little, the Lithuanian Mint has blossomed in recent years to a serious competitor to producers like the Mint of Poland, CIT and Mint XXI, for example. Their [...]
World of Cryptids from the Lithuanian Mint passes its midpoint, with July bringing the seventh issue in this terrific twelve-coin series. The series uses artwork produced by a talented Lithuanian artist named Laimutė Varkalaitė, and depicts mythological creatures and being from all corners of the globe. The original art portfolio of World of Cryptids is far larger than the [...]
A journey through mankind's fascination with dragons continues with the fifth coin in a series by Numiartis Of all the legendary creatures of mythology, the dragon is the one that has inserted itself into the cultures of so many ancient civilisations around the world with ruthless efficiency. Why that is has been a question for the [...]
The European Mint adds new annual issues to the five silver bullion coin series it started in 2022 In March 2022, European Mint debuted five new bullion coins, offering a variety of themes, but headlined by a focus on the national identities of countries in the British Isles, namely Ireland and Wales. Alongside those were pirate [...]
The Royal Mint launches the full Sovereign Collection to celebrate His Majesty The King’s Coronation A quick heads-up that today sees the debut of another special Sovereign, a long-running icon of the numismatic world. We see a few of these, as the Royal Mint often uses special variants to denote historic events, and it doesn't get [...]
The innovative Fender series from Swiss producer, MTB-PAMP, returns with a dual-coin set celebrating the Bassman We've covered MTB/PAMP's cool range of Fender tribute coins for a couple of years now, and they've been universally appealing, both for the coin collector looking for something a little off the wall, to the Fender fan looking for quality [...]
AgAuShoot: Germania Mint to launch a new bullion coin for Malta. We have our images, and a coin to give away Having built up a world based around the ancient historical provinces of Germania using multiple interwoven series of bullion coins, it now seems Germania Mint has set its sights on enhancing its collaboration with the [...]
