Mint XXI brings Three Graces from its Celestial Beauty series to more affordable levels with new proof and bullion coin variants In an unexpected step, one of the finest producers of numismatics working today, Mint XXI, has dipped a first toe into the burgeoning silver bullion market. As some others have done, like Asturmint for example, [...]
Coins & More debut their second 'Figures of Death' coin, with a stunning depiction of the Aztec lady of death, Mictēcacihuātl To say that the concept of death has been an outsize influence on many civilisations throughout history would be something of an understatement. From the earliest cultures of Mesopotamia, and across all inhabited continents, whole societies [...]
Powercoin's quirky Techstalgic silver coin series continues with the ultra-iconic music cassette player, the Walkman Powercoin, known for its range of quirky coins, has dipped once again into our technological dark age for the fourth in its unique 'Techstalgic' series. This range brings, to modern numismatics, some of the earliest steps in mass-produced consumer electronics that [...]
Despite a relatively subdued release schedule compared to the early day, Disney bullion coins are still being released, and the latest, by MTB-PAMP, signifies a new confidence in the brand. We see this in the mintages, with have risen from around 10,000, to 25,000 here. Also telling is the return of gold, absent in most new issues [...]
The big lunars continue to appear, and with the Perth Mint, Royal Mint, and Numistrade launching their new Year of the Horse coins this week, it seems fitting that the Royal Australian Mint would join them. The horse is the sixth in the mints Lunar Investment Series, one of the prettiest ranges in this genre. The horse [...]
The lunar flood continues with the Royal Mint debut of its latest Shēngxiào issue for the Year of the Horse Next up on the major lunar coin front is The Royal Mint, with today's launch of their latest Shēngxiào coin, obviously for the Year of the Horse. We've already had the Perth Mint, and Numistrade [...]
Numistrade add HMS Victory to their Nautical Ounce and the horse to the Lunar Ounce bullion and proof coin ranges We're continuing this week's catch-up of bullion coins, and lunars with another combo of the two, this time from German producer, Numistrade. They've recently debuted the tenth in their Lunar Ounce series, and we've also got [...]
The Perth Mint debuts one of the bullion calendar highlights, the seventh Lunar Series III design, the Year of the Horse. One of the absolute legends of the modern numismatic world, the Perth Mint's Lunar Series has been going since 1996, when Lunar Series I, specifically the Year of the Mouse, debuted. It wasn't until 2000, [...]
CIT and the Cook Islands, bring us coins for Yellowstone, the Italian peninsula, Machu Picchu, and the Cook Islands Here's our second look at CIT's Summer Launch of new coins, released to coincide with the ANA World's Fair of Money, which has just wrapped up. We had a look at four quite unique designs on [...]
Born into an artistic family on 20 September 1925, to a painter father, and a sculptor mother, Džemma Skulme inherited that talent, blossoming into an exceptional painter who helped define Latvian national identity. It was in the 1960s that she began to incorporate defiant symbolism into her work, during a time when Latvia was fully controlled by [...]
