Mint XXI opens up the Spring season with a stunning range of coin issues. Here are the first three that caught our attention. It's going to be a busy week with many producers releasing their Spring collections, and we'll do our best to chip away at them, although it will be a shallower dive than [...]
T&S Coin follows Sparta with another great legend of the Ancient Greek world - the Trojan War It was only last December that we covered the Sparta release from T&S Coin and came away impressed by it. Today, we're looking at the newly released second issue themed around Ancient Greek history and mythology, Troy, more specifically, [...]
Excalibur, the sword of Arthurian legend, launches a new silver coin series from the Carpathian Mint One of the world's most popular stories from history is the Arthurian legend. Telling the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in Camelot, it's now firmly rooted in the cultural memory of British people, [...]
Canada marks the centenary of the Royal Canadian Air Force, with a coin showcasing the aircraft it's used in service of its people A respected military force for its entire history, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was formed on 01 April 1924, from the CAF, itself inaugurated in 1920. However, Canadian pilots were a [...]
Myths and legends, both old and new, are the focus of new releases from the Mint of Poland Just as we did a couple of days ago with the New Zealand Mint, here, we're playing a bit of catch-up with some of the Mint of Poland's latest releases, specifically, their more ambitious designs. This mint [...]
The New Zealand Mint expands its pop-culture ranges, and ventures outside that genre with cowboys and tarot It's been a while since we did a good round-up of the New Zealand Mints coins, so here's a long overdue catch-up on a more varied selection than they've had of late, encompassing some more ambitious pop-culture coins, [...]
The Mint of Gdańsk debuts the third of its Sea Battles silver coins with Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar Polish producer, Mint of Gdańsk, is back with some new issues, and the one we'll be having a look at today is the third in their biannual 'Sea Battles' range. The series debuted in 2020 with [...]
MDM debuts a sublime, fully dimensional silver coin replica of Nefertiti's bust to celebrate a century on Berlin's Museum Island One of the most famous figures from Ancient Egypt, Nefertiti was the wife of the pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. She played a significant role in the religious revolution he initiated, moving [...]
Great Commanders are the subject of a striking new bullion coin range from Scottsdale Mint and SD Bullion History is usually defined by military prowess, and a single commander can often be the driving force behind huge changes in the regional order, sometimes even the world. Even going back thousands of years into antiquity, talented [...]
Tudor Beast's adds proof versions of the Tudor Dragon as its sixth release in a ten-coin program, with bullion to follow The spiritual successor to the Royal Mint's 'Queen's Beasts' series, Tudor Beasts is back with a sixth entrant in this ten-coin series. Designed by David Lawrence, the series is a look at the heraldic history [...]
