The Royal Mint's iconic Una & the Lion coin makes the leap to bullion with the first 'Great Engravers' bars William Wyon's gorgeous 1839 work 'Una & the Lion' has long been a classic of the numismatic world. Unique at the time for depicting a reigning monarch, in this case Queen Victoria, as a fictional character, [...]
The Dragon series from Numiartis returns with a trip to the New World and the Aztec Empire Back with the third entrant, the Dragon series from Numiartis and the Mint of Poland returns and heads over the Atlantic to the New World for inspiration. You don't often associate the Aztecs with dragons, but Quetzalcoatl was actually [...]
CIT Winter Launch: Ravana, the Hindu 'Big Bad', is the fourth in their dimensional deities series of gilded coins The fourth of CIT's dimensional deities coins is now upon us and in a break from past tradition, goes with one of the baddies in ancient lore. Ravana is an important presence in the rather large Hindu [...]
Royal Australian Mint launches a beautiful new 'Coat of Arms' bullion coin series in gold and silver The Royal Australian Mint is really starting to flex its muscles in the bullion coin market, after a few years of growing their presence with a succession of impressive designs. Their Lunar Range, Great White Shark, Dolphin Series, and [...]
One of the pioneers of shaped, non-geometric dimensional coins, CIT have issued some striking examples over the last few years. As they've become more comfortable with the process, we're starting to see coins of this style at the more affordable end of the market. Where better to go next than a perennial staple of CIT's annual lin-up, [...]
The Fool is the debut release in Niue's new Tarot Card inspired silver coin series Despite spending much of its time in the movie and TV franchise world, the New Zealand Mint does release a few unrelated series each year, often with unusual subjects. This time, they've focused on the mystical (and nonsensical) world of Tarot. [...]
That perennial favourite of the bullion coin world, the Royal Mint's Britannia, now has a baby brother in its cheapest form. The silver coin, recently upgraded with a new picosecond laser finish, rarely dips below an ounce in weight. Given the low price of silver and the diminishing returns of smaller fractionals, it's hardly surprising, but as [...]
Mint XXI pays tribute to the Japanese celestial sun goddess, Amaterasu, with an elegant new coin The next coin we're looking at from Mint XXI's World Money Fair release run is probably our favourite. The second in a series called 'Divine Faces of the Sun' it showcases the japanese Shinto goddess of the sun, Amaterasu. This [...]
We had a look at Mint XXI's excellent 'Shaolin Tiger' coin last week, but unusually for them, we had line renders rather than actual coin images. That's now been rectified and we've updated the article to include them. As you can see from the close-up picture above, it's everything we hoped. Check out the revised article at [...]
It's a baguette! Its silver, and gilded, but it's a baguette! Mon dieu!!! We know dimensional coins are an increasingly popular thing in coin circles these days. We know that food-based subjects on coins are not uncommon either. What would you get if you combined the two? Well, if you're French, you get a baguette shaped coin!An [...]
