Art Mint's look at '7 Groundbreaking Ancient Civilisations' continues with a journey to the Indus Valley cultures In November last year, Art Mint debuted a superb new coin showcasing the ancient Mesopotamian Sumerian civilisation, the first in a series of seven silver coins depicting some of the great cultures that pushed human society forwards. The [...]
Asturmint continue to expand their already diverse two-ounce silver cast bar range with the sixth of the Seven Deadly Sins in that series, and the debut release in a timely new one marking 4th of July, known in the United States as Independence Day.The Seven Deadly Sins visualises each sin in female form, and with a colour palette [...]
The Royal Mint brushes off the dies for the unstruck Waterloo Medal by Benedetto Pistrucci and produces an elegant new coin Back in 2015, for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, the Royal Mint refreshed the original tooling for the unstruck Battle of Waterloo medal and produced a 250 gram, antique-finished version with a [...]
The Royal Mint employs the talents of Jody Clark for its St George and the Dragon bullion coin range, the first in a new series Able to make a case for itself as being the single most iconic image in numismatics, Benedetto Pistrucci's St George and the Dragon has adorned the British Sovereign bullion coin for [...]
The legendary Spear of Destiny comes to numismatics with an extraordinary two-ounce dimensional coin from Spectres One of the most enduring legends from biblical times is that of the Holy Lance, also known as the Spear of Destiny, or the Lance of Longinus. The lance is said to be the spear that an unnamed Roman [...]
After Twelve Provinces, and Twelve Castles, the Royal Dutch Mint embarks on a silver Ducat look at Twelve Gates In 2015, the Royal Dutch Mint debuted its twelve-coin series of silver ducats themed around the same number of provinces that make up the Netherlands. Each one was struck in the classic ducat format of 28.25 [...]
Coins Today's stackable silver bullion range hits new heights of esoterica with a 13th century Armenian khachkar design Goshavank is a monastery nestled deep in the mountains of Armenia. Built on the site of a monastery destroyed in an 1188 CE earthquake, it housed a school founded by Mkhitar Gosh, who also aided in its [...]
The tenth incarnation of MTB/PAMPs homage to famed candy, PEZ, has arrived, and it's a celebration of Independence Day, the holiday on the 4th of July that marks the official break between the United Kingdom, and its former colony in North America. It's a celebration replete with flags and colourful decoration, and that's exactly what we get [...]
A look at five more designs from CIT's very impressive Spring Launch tranche, including the latest Woodland Spirit, and the last of the Real Heroes Continuing our coverage of CIT's new debuts, we have a better look at five more of them, encompassing an original design, along with additions to two existing series, and new variants of [...]
The legend of Lady Godiva, and the origin of the 'Peeping Tom', are brought to life on a new high-relief silver coin for Chad Lady Godiva returns to the coin world with a new issue from South Korean producer, Coins Today. This is a full coin, issued for the Republic of Chad, not one of this [...]
