CIT Summer Launch: A cowboy hat and the return of the spinning top coin showcase the extreme end of smartminting’s talents

By |2024-08-08T12:58:17+01:00August 8th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Lunar Calendar, Science, Silver, Cook Islands, CIT Coin Invest, Mongolia|

CIT Summer Launch: A cowboy hat and the return of the spinning top coin showcase the extreme end of smartminting's talents The CIT Summer Launch is upon us, and around two-dozen new issues have debuted as part of it. As always an eclectic mix, we usually do a preview using the CIT videos to kick off [...]

A striking lunar snake, a clever elephant, and Gryphon, a stunning homage to classic Greek numismatics, stand out in CIT’s Spring Launch

By |2024-04-25T21:56:08+01:00April 25th, 2024|Categories: Banknote / Foil, History, Lunar Calendar, Gold, Silver, Cook Islands, CIT Coin Invest, Mongolia|

A striking lunar snake, a clever elephant, and Gryphon, a stunning homage to classic Greek numismatics, stand out in CIT's Spring Launch We posted a collation of all the videos that CIT produced for their latest Spring Launch earlier today, so if you want a complete overview of what's been released today, you can head over [...]

Le Grand Mint brings its esoteric sense of style to their debut selection of 2024 issues in bullion and proof ranges

By |2024-03-05T09:36:59+00:00March 4th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Lunar Calendar, Gilded, Nature, Silver, Cameroon, Liberia, Le Grand Mint, Niue Island|

Le Grand Mint brings its esoteric sense of style to their debut selection of 2024 issues in bullion and proof ranges Over the last few years, German producer, Le Grand Mint, has built itself a reputation for some quite unusual designs, full of detail, and quite different to almost everyone else. The silhouette 'Evolution' nature series, [...]

Art Mint brings its crisp artistic style to a beautiful, traditional Chinese Dragon art coin in a choice of two finishes

By |2024-03-01T09:17:52+00:00March 1st, 2024|Categories: Culture, Lunar Calendar, Art Mint, Gilded, Silver, Niue Island|

Art Mint brings its crisp artistic style to a beautiful, traditional Chinese Dragon art coin in a choice of two finishes Just like the last time it came around in 2012, the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Lunar Calendar has brought with it a notable uptick in the number of dragon themed coins [...]

A round-up of impressive new issues from Mint of MK and The Gold Village, with dragons, Egypt, and chess themes

By |2024-02-16T14:36:34+00:00February 16th, 2024|Categories: History, Coloured, Lunar Calendar, Sport, Silver, Cameroon, Chad, Gabon, Mint of MK, Niue Island, The Gold Village|

A round-up of impressive new issues from Mint of MK and The Gold Village, with dragons, Egypt, and chess themes We've often covered coins from Precious Metal Collectors over the last few years, representing the Singaporean take on modern numismatics as they did. However, late last year, a new producer began quickly making waves, and [...]

Artisan Coin Productions brings some stylish designs to affordable territory with a range of one-gram silver coins

By |2023-12-04T15:37:26+00:00December 1st, 2023|Categories: Artisan Coins, Lunar Calendar, Gilded, Science, Silver, Chad|

Artisan Coin Productions brings some stylish designs to affordable territory with a range of one-gram silver coins With the increasing focus on higher end numismatics, it's easy to overlook potential problems arising from it. Even ignoring the economic woes affecting more and more people, and the subsequent shrinking of disposable income, it's hard to entice new [...]

Year of the Rabbit Silver Keyring version 1/4oz bullion (2023 Coin’s Today)

By |2023-11-22T17:17:39+00:00November 22nd, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Bullion Round, Lunar Calendar, Silver, Coins Today KR|

A year ago, Coin's Today debuted their faceted, low-poly Lunar Rabbit stackable bullion round, like most of their stackables, in two-ounce form. Since then, we've seen a Lunar Dragon version hit the market, at a similar size, and with a similar style. In a surprise move, the South Korean producer has now reissued the design in [...]

The Perth Mints anticipated Lunar Series III bullion coin series returns with the most popular entry of them all – the dragon

By |2023-11-06T01:25:20+00:00November 6th, 2023|Categories: Bullion, Coloured, Lunar Calendar, Gold, Australia, Platinum, Silver, Perth Mint|

The Perth Mints anticipated Lunar Series III bullion coin series returns with the most popular entry of them all - the dragon Back with a fifth release on their third journey through the twelve animals in the lunar calendar, the Perth Mint has today launched the much anticipated 2024 Dragon coin in their Lunar Series [...]

The Royal Mint’s Shengxiao Lunar series of proof coins roars on with the launch of the 2024 dragon range in gold and silver

By |2023-09-05T11:43:08+01:00September 5th, 2023|Categories: Lunar Calendar, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

The Royal Mint's Shēngxiào Lunar series of proof coins roars on with the launch of the 2024 dragon range in gold and silver Now on its eleventh release, at least in proof form, the Royal Mint's Shēngxiào Lunar range gets its first mythical entrant, the 2024 Dragon. A very traditional looking design by William Webb adorns the [...]

Lunar Dragon dimensional, gilded silver coin (2023 CIT Coin Invest)

By |2023-08-31T21:26:37+01:00August 31st, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Lunar Calendar, Gilded, Silver, CIT Coin Invest, Mongolia|

Probably our favourite lunar series of recent years, CIT's fully dimensional range has great design, a quirky attitude, and superb quality. For 2024, the lunar calendar has the dragon as its figurehead, the only mythological creature of the 12, and likely the most popular, if coin sales are any indicator. The dragon is brilliant, even including the [...]

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