Numiscollect’s innovative Dot Art & Pointillism series has just launched its sixth coin, and it continues to surprise with its wide range of subjects. Pointillism was developed by Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat and Neo-Impressionist painter Paul Signac, both Frenchmen working in Paris in the mid-1880’s, from principles discovered by French chemist, Michel Eugène Chevreul. It involves the creation of an image using dots of colour, rather than mixing colours to form new ones, causing the eye to see a wider gamut than is actually present. Even Vincent van Gogh was impressed by the technique.

For their coins, Numiscollect have combined the colour dots, with some fine, smartminted raised dots formed in the coin strike. They vary in size and colour to build up the image of a chameleon on a bed of leaves. Here, just the chameleon and the branch it resides on, are done in dots, which is the opposite of how it was done on the earlier ‘Whale’ design, where everything but the subject was done so, and last year’s Taj Mahal coin, where the whole thing was realised as Pointillism.

The design this year is particularly vibrant, playing into the colourful nature of the Chameleon. It’s a fine example of the type. The common obverse returns, the only difference being the absence of an issue date, which has been moved to the raised rim of the reverse. Packaging is equally bright and colourful, and this three-ounce black proof coin has a mintage of 333. Available to order now.