Mint 21 adds the third century Ancient Chinese warlord Lu Bu to its range of high-relief silver coins

By |2019-09-09T14:02:36+01:00September 9th, 2019|Categories: Culture, History, Gilded, Silver, MintXXI, Niue Island|

Mint 21 adds the third century Ancient Chinese warlord Lu Bu to its range of high-relief silver coins While the greatest volume of coins in the antiqued, high-relief ancient world coin genre are produced by the Mint of Poland, followed some way behind in numbers, although certainly not in quality, by Numiscollect, there are [...]

2020 LUNARS: It’s finally here! Perth Mint kicks off Lunar Series III with a vastly improved look

By |2019-09-03T01:39:28+01:00September 3rd, 2019|Categories: Culture, Australia, Gold, Silver, Perth Mint|

2020 LUNARS: It’s finally here! Perth Mint kicks off Lunar Series III with a vastly improved look Always the elephant in the lunar room, the Perth Mint has dominated the market for this popular numismatic genre for a healthy couple of decades. The 12-coin cycle has been undertaken successfully twice now, so it's always [...]

2020 LUNARS: Royal Mint adds to its Shengxiao series with a new style for the Year of the Rat

By |2019-09-02T17:40:41+01:00September 2nd, 2019|Categories: Culture, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

2020 LUNARS: Royal Mint adds to its Shengxiao series with a new style for the Year of the Rat Now seven years old, the Royal Mints Shēngxiào Collection has always been a slightly eccentric take on the whole Lunar Calendar style of coin. Initially employing British-Chinese artist Wuon-Gean Ho to design the [...]

World’s oldest film school is celebrated by Russia with a silver centenary coin

By |2019-08-31T16:36:27+01:00August 31st, 2019|Categories: Culture, Movies & TV, Silver, Central Bank of Russia, Russia|

World's oldest film school is celebrated by Russia with a silver centenary coin Founded back in 1919 by the film director Vladimir Gardin, the Moscow Film School is the oldest running film school in the world. Responsible for countless famous names in Russian and Soviet cinema over the next 100 years and [...]

ANA 2019: Numiscollect launches another imaginative mix of superb silver coins

By |2019-08-14T18:38:09+01:00August 14th, 2019|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, History, Banknote / Foil, Nature, Coloured, Gilded, Science, Gold, Inserts, Silver, Cook Islands, CIT Coin Invest, Mongolia, Numiscollect|

ANA 2019: Numiscollect launches another imaginative mix of superb silver coins Up there with the best of the world;s coin producers, Dutch company Numiscollect have tapped into the CIT/BH Mayer pairing, thus leveraging the expertise on offer to bring to reality some of the best coins released today. Numiscollect have a great [...]

ANA 2019: CIT launches an eclectic mix of top quality collectable coins

By |2019-08-14T22:19:53+01:00August 14th, 2019|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, History, Banknote / Foil, Nature, Coloured, Gilded, Science, Gold, Inserts, Silver, Cook Islands, CIT Coin Invest, Mongolia|

ANA 2019: CIT launches an eclectic mix of top quality collectable coins Liechtenstein coin producer CIT have long been the darlings of the coin world, with their ability to design, and then fully realise, some ambitious and stunning numismatics. Since the debut of the Tiffany series back in 2004, they, along with [...]

ANA 2019: Numiscollect debuts the ‘Wheel of Life’ on its latest Archaeology & Symbolism coin

By |2019-08-08T22:50:05+01:00August 8th, 2019|Categories: Culture, History, Gilded, Silver, Cook Islands, Mongolia, Numiscollect|

ANA 2019: Numiscollect debuts the 'Wheel of Life' on its latest Archaeology & Symbolism coin As much as we love the ancient mythology coins that have been issued over the last few years, it's always great to see something set in a similar world, but with a decidedly different focus. In 2017, [...]

Poland marks the centenary of its classic red and white horizontally striped national flag

By |2019-08-04T23:58:29+01:00August 5th, 2019|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Silver, Poland, Narodowy Bank|

Poland marks the centenary of its classic red and white horizontally striped national flag There's no more potent symbol of national identity than a flag. While in numismatics we tend towards the female personifications to fulfil that role, that doesn't mean the history of that symbol isn't a great subject for commemoration in precious [...]

MDM bring the Bhutanese legend of the Four Harmonious Friends to life on a new coin duo

By |2019-08-05T19:41:37+01:00August 4th, 2019|Categories: Art & Literature, Culture, Coloured, Gold, Bhutan, Silver, MDM|

MDM bring the Bhutanese legend of the Four Harmonious Friends to life on a new coin duo Enigmatic and mysterious, the Kingdom of Bhutan is one of those countries known to few and known about by even fewer. A strict tourist policy and a land-locked geography haven't helped, but this naturally beautiful [...]

Numiscollect’s beautiful Aztec Calendar Stone coin has a very limited trip to the gilders

By |2019-07-15T13:06:40+01:00July 15th, 2019|Categories: Culture, History, Gilded, Silver, Cook Islands, Numiscollect|

Numiscollect's beautiful Aztec Calendar Stone coin has a very limited trip to the gilders The first of their Archaeology and Symbolism series, the 2018 Aztec Calendar Stone 3oz silver coin from Numiscollect was a piece that impressed us last year with its level of detail. Aided by Smartminting, it reached out [...]

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