Back in 2013, a coin featuring a white marble insert and depicting a werewolf made its debut, initiating a new series of 2 oz antique-finish coins called Mythological Creatures. The coin was widely liked and a sequel inevitable. Back in early February we took a first look at this second coin featuring a vampire and while it closely followed the design ethos from the first coin, there were some concerns from readers about the representation of the vampire character. The tone of the prototype veered towards the teen-look Twilight television series and that was neither a classic interpretation, or a scary one.
Fortunately, it looks like the artist has made some changes which manage to keep all the excellent parts of the original design, the original composition being quite excellent, and just completely changing the tone of the character itself. The coin is transformed and now a far more aggressive looking design, and one more fitting for the series. The swapping out of the white marble for black has given better definition to the bat and the whole is now a much more impressive affair than the one shown at the Berlin World Money Fair.
Designed by Numiartis and produced by Coin Invest Trust, the coin is available to pre-order now from Numiartis partner, Intercoins-Berlin for €249.00. It ships in September. A 2 0z antique-finish coin issued for Palau, it comes in some fine packaging.
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2013 WEREWOLF COIN
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Excellent….(in my best burns impression).
I am hoping they will keep the same lovely wood case for this one, too?
My understanding is that it does. Much improved coin, I was really surprised at the changes, but looking back on our first report of it, we did get mostly negative feedback on the design. Good to see a producer make that extra effort. Hope the Mummy is next…:)
Glad to see they made the design change both to the vampire & using black marble.
Did not like the preliminary design at all, the reVAMPed one is definitely more fitting.
Vastly better I agree. Would’ve been a shame to see the series fade because of an inappropriate design, but no problems now I think.
Well the genre their staying with so far has been creatures that have transformed from “HUMANs”, with more of an ancient lore and the use of marble inserts which I like.
My hope is that they just stay with that human theme and not get into all the other “animal” related creatures like the Perth mint produced. Even though, in my opinion the Perth’s set was a nicely done series.
I guess the Mummy and maybe Frankenstein would also fit as “human” creatures of ancient lore as well.
Personally, I would love to see a “raggedly wrapped Mummy” crawling out of a marble sarcophagus and maybe “Frankenstein” in a horrifying rage with a marble bolt thru his neck !
For the next mythical creature i would hope, also, they stay away (for the moment at least) from the obvious and well-used ones like the dragon.
And please – designers- no cutesy creatures like a mermaid or pegasus or God forbid…. a unicorn.
But at the same time i’d rather it not become a Hammer studios series, either.
My personal hope for the next one would be Medusa or the Minotaur.
I agree Ian, I hope they keep the series with the “Horror” theme.
I also agree, Medusa would be an excellent choice.
Couldn’t agree more. Either of those could have a whole lot of detail in them and these are clearly designed and struck to the standard necessary to pull that off. Maybe make the polished mirror from the Medusa myth as the marble insert. Lots of marbles can take a very high polish.