Mint XXI opens up the Spring season with a stunning range of coin issues. Here are the first three that caught our attention.
Mint XXI opens up the Spring season with a stunning range of coin issues. Here are the first three that caught our attention. It's going to be a busy week with many producers releasing their Spring collections, and we'll do our best to chip away at them, although it will be a shallower dive than usual. We'll have a mix on Friday, CIT on Thursday, and Mint of MK tomorrow, [...]
Big Five of Africa: Lion 2oz silver bar (2024 Royal Krakow Mint)
We've seen a huge uptick in interest for the humble cast silver bar of late, headlined by Germania Mints new Goddesses (and now Gods) ranges, and while it isn't usually our thing to cover here (we have to draw a line somewhere), these bars have much artistic merit, and fit into themes common in the coin world. It seems that two-ounces is the sweet spot, and that's the one chosen by the [...]
T&S Coin follows Sparta with another great legend of the Ancient Greek world – the Trojan War
T&S Coin follows Sparta with another great legend of the Ancient Greek world - the Trojan War It was only last December that we covered the Sparta release from T&S Coin and came away impressed by it. Today, we're looking at the newly released second issue themed around Ancient Greek history and mythology, Troy, more specifically, the version told in the Iliad, by the regarded Greek writer, Homer, in a 24 [...]
Stackable bullion continues to reach new heights of design with kilo versions of CTK’s Ganesha and Lucifer issues
Stackable bullion continues to reach new heights of design with kilo versions of CTK's Ganesha and Lucifer issues The prolific South Korean bullion producer, Coins Today, has three new issues, and while we wait for images of the all-new design, here's a gallery look at the two upgrades. This producer has generally standardised on the two-ounce format for the majority of its stackables, but increasingly, they later release one-kilogram versions. That's [...]
Excalibur, the sword of Arthurian legend, launches a new silver coin series from the Carpathian Mint
Excalibur, the sword of Arthurian legend, launches a new silver coin series from the Carpathian Mint One of the world's most popular stories from history is the Arthurian legend. Telling the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in Camelot, it's [...]
Gods: Baldur 2oz silver bar (2024 Germania Mint)
Coming out of nowhere, Germania Mint kicked off 2024 with a simple two-ounce cast silver bar. On the front of it was a beautiful coloured image of the goddess Freyja. So had debuted 'Goddesses', a new series of silver bars, and it was a huge hit, with [...]
Pop-culture coins remain as popular as ever in numismatic circles. Here’s a look at a small mix of recent issues from different mints.
Pop-culture coins remain as popular as ever in numismatic circles. Here's a look at a small mix of recent issues from different mints. It's been a while since we did one of our pop-culture coin round-ups, mainly because we try to give things a break now [...]
Ghana Leopard gold and silver bullion coins (2023 Scottsdale Mint)
One of the longer running series in Scottsdale Mint's copious range of bullion coins, the African Leopard debuted in 2017 with a silver coin, and has been issued annually ever since. In 2020, a gold variant was added to the range, also an ounce in weight, and in [...]
Art Mint hits a decade with its iconic Mandala Art series, and there’s a stunning 10th anniversary special edition coin to celebrate
Art Mint hits a decade with its iconic Mandala Art series, and there's a stunning 10th anniversary special edition coin to celebrate After a decade of impressing us with the elegance of the designs, Art Mints superb Mandala Art series gets two releases for 2024, one is [...]
Coin’s Today adds strikingly original new silver coins featuring Iberian ceramic tiles and art carved into a book
Coin's Today adds strikingly original new silver coins featuring Iberian ceramic tiles and art carved into a book Coins Today continues its march to cover some truly unique subjects in its various silver ranges, with this new pair. No stackable bullion this time, but one is [...]
The brilliantly anarchic animated series Rick & Morty gets an equally brilliant coin from the Mint of Gdańsk
The brilliantly anarchic animated series Rick & Morty gets an equally brilliant coin from the Mint of Gdańsk Animation is a true art form, and comes in many forms. The most popular of those are the many modern incarnations in popular culture from around the world. [...]
Mint of MK and The Gold Village take their quirky sense of style to the culinary coin genre with this unusual instant noodle homage
Mint of MK and The Gold Village take their quirky sense of style to the culinary coin genre with this unusual instant noodle homage Food isn't one of the commoner themes in modern numismatics, but it does attract a higher proportion of unusual ideas than most others. [...]
The ancient hooligan, Hercules, strangles a bull for the seventh task of twelve in Niue’s silver coin series
The ancient hooligan, Hercules, strangles a bull for the seventh task of twelve in Niue's silver coin series This series of twelve coins produced by Coin Shoppe in Canada, and Magikos Coins in Poland, is struck by the Mint of Poland, and follows their classic format [...]
AgAuNEWS summer holidays and what’s coming next week: UPDATED
AgAuNEWS summer holidays and what's coming next week: UPDATED Hi all. Just to let you know that we're taking a couple of weeks for a holiday. I usually end up doing a bit while I'm off, but this time it's going to be a full recharge. The [...]
CIT Summer ’23: The Vexed Man, Charon the Ferryman, and the Grand Canyon showcase CIT’s imagination<
CIT Summer '23: The Vexed Man, Charon the Ferryman, and the Grand Canyon showcase CIT's imagination After a quick wander through many of this talented producer's new coins from the Summer Launch, we've chosen three of them for a closer look. These aren't necessarily our absolute [...]
CIT Summer ’23: Additions to classic series and exciting new designs. CIT flexes its design muscles with another outstanding launch
CIT Summer '23: Additions to classic series and exciting new designs. CIT flexes its design muscles with another outstanding launch We say this every time, and we mean it every time - CIT have launched another epic range of coins, this time for their Summer [...]
New producer, MK, comes in hot ,with an epic trimetallic silver Thousand-armed Bodhisattva coin of 188 mm diameter
New producer, MK, comes in hot, with an epic trimetallic silver Thousand-armed Bodhisattva coin of 188 mm diameter We've seen some impressive examples of copper-cored coins released over the last few years, primarily from Singapore-based Precious Metal Collectors. The concept is quite simple. A large [...]
Powercoin’s Camouflage of Nature moves from prey to predator with a leopard in hiding coin
Powercoin's Camouflage of Nature moves from prey to predator with a leopard in hiding coin The first coin in this series, Camouflage of Nature', debuted last September, and was easily one of the best designs released in 2022. A striking merging of geometry and nature, it took [...]