The Austrian Mint issues Quantum Physics, the 24th issue in its award-winning bi-metal niobium and silver series At one time, the Austrian Mint's annual niobium coin was one of the most popular and eagerly awaited series in modern numismatics. Despite a mintage of around 65,000 pieces, they regularly sold out in short order. While those days [...]
The magnificent Concorde supersonic aircraft is celebrated 50 years later on a new coin from The Royal Mint One of the most beautiful aircraft to ever take to the skies, certainly the most elegant airliner ever built, Concorde was a joint Anglo-French project to create a supersonic passenger jet. Remarkably, work began just 17 years [...]
Last April, Powercoin started a new series to sit alongside its retro-themed techstalgic range, except this time, featuring software rather than hardware. The series, called 'Back to the Pixel', kicked off with the now legendary Microsoft Paint, a piece of art creation software that is still in use today, and an integral component of Windows.No such luck for [...]
Ants head out for an infinite walk on Le Grand Mint's M.C. Escher inspired Möbius strip silver coin It seems like insects have staked out a solid claim to numismatics at the start of 2026 with our second one of the day, and it's another quite unusual take on the subject. We've always liked Le Grand [...]
Bee coins have always enjoyed a high standard of design, and Powercoin's first 'Bionic Genesis' issue keeps it up Powercoin's first issue of the year is also the debut issue in the Rome-based producer's latest series, called 'Bionic Genesis'. The increasingly popular theme of fusing nature and technology continues here, with Powercoin themselves having visited [...]
Silver Pours expands its gold offerings with a timely range of 1/1000th ounce minigold coins with a wide range of themes With the price of gold reaching stratospheric levels, and the average person's finances getting squeezed from seemingly every direction, the coin collector is having a tough time finding affordable gold. This week, we'll have a [...]
Mint XXI, with their Autumn Launch, bring superb additions to many silver coin series, including Celestial Beauty, and Nature Spirits We're heading into the final launch season of the year, and of the three that concentrate on four main seasonal releases (CIT, Mint XXI, MDM), it's Mint XXI that's the first out of the gate with another [...]
Mechanical butterflies, the Wild West, and the bomb to end all bombs feature on Silver Pours and Mint of MK's latest innovative coins Silver Pours have been quite prolific of late, and it's about time we had another dip into a few of the more unusual ones that they've put out since our last look. That coin [...]
It's been a while since we wrote about a Swiss Mint release, but it was hard to ignore their latest issue given how little aviation seems to feature on modern coins. Switzerland itself had a presence in early aviation, mainly around the late 1800s, and centred around balloons, leading to the formation of a military balloon corps [...]
The landmark sounds from history feature on Sounds of Legacy, a silver coin with an audio link to Armstrong's moon landing speech "One small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." With these words, astronaut Neil Armstrong opened up the next phase in human exploration by stepping from the Apollo 11 lunar lander onto [...]
