Powercoins ‘Techstalgic’ range is exactly what that name suggests – a look at past technology, especially those items that have been used on a daily basis by legions of people, attaining classic status in the process. It started with the floppy disk, and carried on with a calculator watch, like those old digital Casio’s we all wanted to own. The third issue was released yesterday, and it’s a legend – the old Nokia-style mobile phones that just seemed to go on forever.

I had one of these for a few years when I was working in the construction industry. It isn’t a myth, the thing just seemed to be indestructible. The coin is just terrific, especially in coloured form. It looks like one of the later versions of this type, reproducing the buttons, speakers, and even the pixelated screen. They missed a trick, not adding an ‘A’ to the front of ‘KOIN’, as that would’ve been an anagram of Nokia, but maybe that was a step too far. Funny though.

The obverse shows us the back of the phone with its cover off, with all the battery terminals, and SIM contacts present. On the coloured variant, these are gilded. As you can probably tell, I really like the coloured one, but both bring back fond memories of a time we had better contact with other people, but the bloody phone didn’t rule our lives.

I wasn’t sure I’d like this series as much as some of Powercoin’s other releases, but they really do tap into an earlier time, when tech served us without dominating our attention. I’m sure it’s a bit of rose-tinted glasses syndrome, and hypocritical given my love of modern tech, but the feeling remains. Available now, with just 499 of each available. Love it!

This is one of the more unusual coins to have come from the Mint of Gdańsk of late, and is a ten-ounce numismatic representation of the current trends of artificial intelligence, or at least where many speculate it will go. AI is the new buzzword, with everyone and their dog adding it in somewhere, despite its downsides, and unreliability, but that will change with time.

The coin takes it to a logical extreme – humanoid robots, androids. It’s certainly an unusually striking design, with a central figure in a meditative pose, flanked by six replacement heads. We’re getting shades of Kryten and his spare heads from Red Dwarf… The figures, and part of the background, are highlighted with lines and dots of coloured enamel, giving it that futuristic look. This isn’t a struck coin, of course, so there’s some casting involved.

It’s a clever interpretation of AI, although we can imagine quite a divisive one. We like things that are different, and this definitely fits the bill, as well as featuring a subject very much in the popular consciousness today. At ten ounces of silver, with a complex design and a mintage of just 100 pieces, it isn’t a cheap release, of course, but we can imagine it appealing to enough people to sell out that mintage.

Here we have the second in Mint XXI’s ‘The Nine Muses’ series. Apollo was the son of Zeus, and twin to Artemis, the huntress. He was also the companion of the Nine Muses, divine women who epitomised much of Apollo’s character – his patronage of music, mathematics, and poetry, for example. The Muses are described as inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts from Ancient Greek culture, and are said to be the very embodiment of literature, science and the arts.

The first coin in this series was Calliope (depicted in the featured image above), but this 2025 issue features two of the Muses. Terpsichore (with the lyre) is the muse of sacred hymns and poetry, while Euterpe, is most associated with music. Both are beautifully depicted in high-relief, and antique finished, with gilded instruments. The background is a kaleidoscope of coloured mosaic, the signature of this series. The common obverse returns, except the high-lighted instruments are those associated with the main subjects of this particular coin, also a nice touch. A great looking series.

It all started in 2019 with an apple blossom, more specifically, an apple blossom egg that’s on display in Liechtenstein’s National Museum, CIT’s homeland. One of the exquisite, and highly blingy, eggs produced around the start of the 20th century, they’re now highly prized pieces of art. At least 69 were created in total, 12 of which have been lost, and this 2025 coin is the sixth of them to feature in this coin series.

These are two-ounce silver coins, issued for Mongolia, and with a basic obverse. All the attention is on the reverse, and here they’ve employed smartminting to create a high-relief depiction of the egg, full of fine detail. The star here, however, has to be the colour. Colouring on high-relief isn’t that easy, and the difficulty ramps up when it’s finely detailed, but it looks like CIT has done an impressive job here. The gilding is a great touch, successfully replicating the extravagance of the original.

Not the only Fabergé Egg series out there, it’s easily the finest, in our view. If you’re a lover of fine art, you could find these very appealing. The first five issues sold out, and we suspect this one will join them.