Pobjoy takes up the Queen’s Beasts challenge with the first in a new bi-metallic style proof coin series
Pobjoy takes up the Queen's Beasts challenge with the first in a new bi-metallic style proof coin series One of the best proof/bullion coin series in recent years, in our view, the Royal Mints 'Queen's Beasts' ten-issue series will no doubt go down as a modern [...]
Reverie by Mucha is the latest in Powercoins hit Micropuzzle Treasures silver coin series
Reverie by Mucha is the latest in Powercoins hit Micropuzzle Treasures silver coin series Powercoins hugely popular Micropuzzle Treasure art-themed series is back with a third installment, and it's an artist I don't remember seeing on a coin before, Alfons Mucha. A member of the Art Nouveau [...]
Geralt of Rivia – The Witcher – is the world’s first silver statue legal-tender coin, and it’s a beauty
Geralt of Rivia - The Witcher - is the world's first silver statue legal-tender coin, and it's a beauty We've seen a small increase in the number of miniatures/statuettes over the last few years, mainly with a range from the New Zealand Mint related to its various [...]
Smash hit Great Engravers coin series returns with William Wyons stunning Three Graces design
Smash hit Great Engravers coin series returns with William Wyons stunning Three Graces design: UPDATE A massive hit for the Royal Mint in 2019, 'Great Engravers' is a premium range of coins celebrating the work of the earlier Royal Mint master engravers. The debut coin [...]
The Royal Mint’s iconic Una & the Lion coin makes the leap to bullion with the first ‘Great Engravers’ bars
The Royal Mint's iconic Una & the Lion coin makes the leap to bullion with the first 'Great Engravers' bars William Wyon's gorgeous 1839 work 'Una & the Lion' has long been a classic of the numismatic world. Unique at the time for depicting a reigning [...]
The Dragon series from Numiartis returns with a trip to the New World and the Aztec Empire
The Dragon series from Numiartis returns with a trip to the New World and the Aztec Empire Back with the third entrant, the Dragon series from Numiartis and the Mint of Poland returns and heads over the Atlantic to the New World for inspiration. You don't [...]
CIT Winter Launch: Ravana, the Hindu ‘Big Bad’, is the fourth in their dimensional deities series of gilded coins
CIT Winter Launch: Ravana, the Hindu 'Big Bad', is the fourth in their dimensional deities series of gilded coins The fourth of CIT's dimensional deities coins is now upon us and in a break from past tradition, goes with one of the baddies in ancient lore. [...]
‘Icons of Innovation’ bullion coin series from APMEX launches with the ‘father of modern science’, Galileo
'Icons of Innovation' bullion coin series from APMEX launches with the 'father of modern science', Galileo It isn't just the fictional world of H.P. Lovecraft thats getting the bullion coin treatment at APMEX as the US-based mega-'dealer has also launched a very pretty new coin series [...]
YouTube Highlight – Numiscollect release videos of their new WMF21 releases
Numiscollect released four fine new releases for the 2021 virtual Berlin World Money Fair and we've covered them in other articles. They've released videos of three of them, which you can see below. An excellent and varied selection. Previous articles are at; Growing Up: The Lion Whale Dot Art Titans: [...]
Royal Australian Mint launches a beautiful new ‘Coat of Arms’ bullion coin series in gold and silver
Royal Australian Mint launches a beautiful new 'Coat of Arms' bullion coin series in gold and silver The Royal Australian Mint is really starting to flex its muscles in the bullion coin market, after a few years of growing their presence with a succession of impressive [...]
The Mr. Men celebrate 50 years with a new three-design coin range from the Royal Mint
The Mr. Men celebrate 50 years with a new three-design coin range from the Royal Mint Over 28 countries, the Mr. Men series of childrens books has sold over 100 million books since the first was published in 1971. Mr. Men expanded to Little Miss in [...]
APMEX tiptoes through the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft with its first Cthulhu bullion coin release
APMEX tiptoes through the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft with its first Cthulhu bullion coin release The tortured mind of Howard Phillips Lovecraft brought forth one of the most vivid and unusual fictional universes in the history of literature. The Cthulhu Mythos spans billions of [...]
Sekhmet, daughter of Ra and the warrior goddess of healing is the third Gods of Anger coin
Sekhmet, daughter of Ra and the warrior goddess of healing is the third Gods of Anger coin Always a relatively early issue on the annual calendar, the Mint of Poland and Pela Coins have launched the third of their striking 'Gods of Anger' coins looking at the [...]
Numiscollect @ WMF: The life cycle of the lion is explored in the first Growing Up, bi-finish coin
Numiscollect @ WMF: The life cycle of the lion is explored in the first Growing Up, bi-finish coin That most magnificent of cats, the Lion, is the subject of Numiscollect's first foray into the life cycle of some of the world's truly impressive animals. It appears [...]
The Fool is the debut release in Niue’s new Tarot Card inspired silver coin series
The Fool is the debut release in Niue's new Tarot Card inspired silver coin series Despite spending much of its time in the movie and TV franchise world, the New Zealand Mint does release a few unrelated series each year, often with unusual subjects. This time, [...]
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse series wraps up with Death, the rider of the Pale Horse
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse series wraps up with Death, the rider of the Pale Horse In our view, easily one of the best series of mythologically-themed coins oi the last few years, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is now wrapping up with the fourth and [...]