Benedetto Pistrucci's numismatic icon, 'St George & the Dragon' is brought to stunning life for the Royal Mint's sixth 'Great Engravers' The Royal Mint continues its Great Engravers programme with what must be one of the most recognisable designs in numismatic history. St George and the Dragon has been a staple of British coinage, including the [...]
Numiscollect's 'Time Flies' silver coin series moves from trade and discovery, to humanities greatest love - Warfare Time Flies is a series of two-ounce silver coins from Dutch producer, Numiscollect, that takes an interesting look at the progress mankind has made through various fields of endeavours. The first coin was a neat look at discovery and [...]
Korean producer, Today, adds a new stackable with an unusual quirk, and expands two coin series with new issues As we recover from the bug, and simultaneously start to chip away at a huge backlog from the World Money Fair, we're going to rely on this format to do the heavy lifting. We'll be sacrificing some [...]
CIT showcases the latest evolution of their industry-defining smartminting. Iron Knight pushes high-relief detailing to new levels. It was in 2016 that CIT, and German mint BH Mayer, debuted their jointly developed proprietary 'Smartminting' technology to the public. Its most impressive example back then was a gorgeous design called 'The Great Tea Race of 1886', one [...]
Art Mint stuns with a five-ounce version of their homage to the Gothic magnificence of Notre Dame Cathedral Our love of Art Mint's 'Mandala Art' series is well documented here, but we also have a special affinity for it. It was only my second Berlin World Money Fair, back in 2015, and this site wasn't well [...]
Powercoin launches a nostalgic look back at the tech that birthed our modern digital world, starting with the floppy disk We all have memories of the tech we grew up with, and the 70s to 90s were witness to a groundbreaking transformation from the analogue, to the digital age. It's hard to imagine just how [...]
The Royal Mint and the United States Mint debut their collaborative range of bullion and proof coins Just a quick heads up that today is the day the Royal Mint/US Mint collaborative 'Britannia and Liberty' coin is released. We did a tease of it with information about a month ago, but the full specs are listed [...]
Just a quick update on the site at the moment As some of you are aware, we attended the World Money Fair in Berlin late last week, and honestly, after three years of not attending (two down to Covid) it was terrific to meet folks again. We saw some quite spectacular issues, many not issuing until later [...]
CIT wow with their first major launch of 2024, including the debut of Smartminting 4.0 with Iron Knight The first seasonal release tranche of 2024, the Winter Launch, is timed to coincide with the industry's biggest event, the World Money Fair, held in Berlin for three days from tomorrow. It's usually CIT's flagship release, and with [...]
A stunning 'The Oreads' coin adds to Celestial Beauty, one of Mint XXI's longest running silver series Talented producer, Mint XXI, is one that has garnered a reputation for artistic excellence in the numismatic world, issuing some quite extraordinary designs over the last few years. One of their flagship series is also one of their oldest. [...]
