Code of the Future silver coin series moves from A.I., FTL travel, and immortality, to the quest for time travel The fourth in the Mint of Gdańsk's 'Code of the Future' series of two-ounce silver coins is now available to pre-order. This series looks at what will be the big existential questions for humanity moving forward. [...]
Powercoin's 'Cyborg Revolution' silver coin series is back with a baby, the next stage of our enforced evolution? Last years 'Cyborg Revolution' coin, from Italian producer & dealer, Powercoin, was an intensely bright and intense depiction of a cyborg alien, come to Earth on a mission of conquest. The five-coin series, issued one per annum, [...]
A peek behind the curtains to see what's to come, with CIT's new retro-inspired Daydreamer: Future proof silver coin Robots, spaceships, flying cars, and buildings towering into the sky, have all been popular elements in science-fiction, dating back to the early 20th century, and in some forms, as far as Victorian times. Fritz Lang's seminal 1927 [...]
Precious Metal Collectors heads into space with a mixed trio of new silver coins encompassing multiple techniques We're seeing a small resurgence in interest for coins with an astronomical theme, and Precious Metal Collectors (PMC), usually focused mainly on the world's various mythologies, with a smattering of art thrown in, have jumped in with three new [...]
All hail our bug overlords! Powercoins' latest Clockwork Evolution coin is a mechanical Ladybird A neat surprise last year was the release of the first Mechanical Evolution coin by Rome-based dealer/producer, Powercoin. Tapping into that continuing cultural trend for the fusion of the biological and the mechanical, it showed us what could happen when mechanisation is [...]
The chaos on Earth disappears when you admire it from space. LPM coin, 'Blue Marble', features the iconic 1972 Apollo 17 image Apollo 17 was the final mission in the hugely successful Apollo program, which NASA initiated in 1968 to put a man on the moon. The final mission, Apollo 17, took off on 07 December [...]
The microprocessor has changed the world. Art Mint celebrates by marking the 50th anniversary of commercial availability It's incredible that something so small, could have had an impact so large, on human history. The microprocessor was first made commercially available, the Intel 4004, just fifty years ago in 1971. It brought with it an acceleration in [...]
MDM and the Royal Canadian Mint celebrate the 100-year anniversary of telephone pioneer, Alexander Graham Bell Born in 1847, Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell's name will forever be linked with his most famous invention - the telephone. His efforts in the field were driven by both his wife's, and his mother's deafness, the work he undertook [...]
Turn base metal into gold? The Mint of Poland gets an alchemist as far as silver for its latest coin Turning base metal into gold, the quest for immortality, the cure for disease - each of these were goals that the alchemists of old struggled to achieve, for obvious reasons. Alchemy, a mix of philosophy and [...]
In a first for the Swiss Mint, they're issuing a platinum coin. Struck in 13.89 grams of 0.9995 platinum, it's not only is made of the metal, it has it as its subject as well. The reverse face of the coin consists of a mix of chemical symbolism and data, including the metals atomic weight, position in the [...]
