The Roman Goddess Juno is showcased on new silver coins from the Mint of Poland, and the Mint of Gdańsk Juno, the ancient Roman goddess, holds a prominent place in mythology and religion. She's often depicted as the queen of the gods, the wife and sister of Jupiter, and the mother of Mars and Vulcan. With her [...]
Coins Today launches half-ounce versions of four of its stackable designs, and a kilo of the Aztec Shield We've made no secret of our admiration for the stackable silver offerings from South Korean producer, Coins Today, which are both broad in style, and exceptionally well struck. Veering from science and technology, to historical artifacts, there's pretty [...]
The East India Company marks the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party with a new proof coin range The Boston Tea Party, that took place on December 16, 1773, was a protest organized by the Sons of Liberty, a group of American colonists, against the British government's imposition of a tax on tea. Disguised as [...]
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 [...]
AllCollect glorifies the Great Commanders with a silver coin series, launching with the Spartan legend, Leonidas Born into the warrior culture of ancient Sparta, Leonidas embodied the virtues of courage, discipline, and unwavering loyalty to his people. He was famed for leading his army of 300 warriors in the pivotal 488 BCE Battle of Thermopylae against [...]
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 seventh in the Royal Mint's 'British Monarchs' series adds the Charles II portrait by legendary engraver John Roettiers Release number seven in the Royal Mint's 21-coin, 5-year 'British Monarchs Collection', welcomes Charles II, joining Charles I and III in appearing on a coin in the series, although the latter in just obverse effigy form. A [...]
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 [...]
Continuing one of the few non-pop culture series the NZ Mint currently releases, Queen Cleopatra is the third in the 'Women of History' series of one-ounce silver coins. The series is casting a wide net, starting with the early 20th century Polish-French physicist, Marie Curie, then jumping back in time to feature the British warrior queen, Boudicca. With [...]
