Spectres brings Hannibal Barca, the Roman Empire's greatest nemesis, to life in a high-relief silver coin It isn't many people that make their names fighting a behemoth, but Hannibal Barca, the renowned Carthaginian general, is remembered as one of history's greatest military strategists, particularly for his audacious and innovative tactics during the Second Punic War (218-201 [...]
MK's 9 Dragons collection of high-relief silver coins continues with its third issue - The Black Dragon MK continue their journey along the path of 9 Dragons with the launch of the third in the series to date. Last month saw the debut of the collection, starting with the Winged Dragon, and the Scaled Dragon. [...]
It's a snake. It lives in Australia. Those two facts should give you pause for thought, as it's highly likely a nip from it will have you meeting your maker. That is indeed the case, and the Tiger Snake (the name is a clue!), sports a venom consisting of, not just neurotoxins, but also coagulants, haemolysins, [...]
Singapore-based producer, Precious metal Collectors, has a heavy presence in the fine art coin genre, and by heavy presence, we don't just mean in the number of releases. Utilising their Bi-Metal minting technique, whereby silver is placed over a solid copper core, the end result was coins in the kilo weight class, but containing only 1–5 ounces [...]
The Perth Mints anticipated Lunar Series III bullion coin series returns with the most popular entry of them all - the dragon Back with a fifth release on their third journey through the twelve animals in the lunar calendar, the Perth Mint has today launched the much anticipated 2024 Dragon coin in their Lunar Series [...]
Mint XXI Autumn Launch: History's great female warriors, expansive empires and solar deities are showcased in silver After taking our first look over CIT's latest batch of release as part of their Autumn Launch, we're now doing the same for Mint XXI, a producer we have no problem putting on the same level of excellence. Mint [...]
CIT Autumn Launch Day: The Armillary Sphere, the Dragonfly, and the Eiffel Tower demonstrate CIT's technical and artistic ability in modern numismatics We've taken to picking out three noteworthy coins from CIT's quarterly seasonal releases to look at one launch day, and that's the case again for the last of the 2023 events - Autumn. [...]
CIT Autumn Launch Day: A riot of colour, high-relief, the natural world, history and science. And Cowboys... Never ones to disappoint, CIT today launch their last seasonal batch of new releases for 2023, and as always, it's a varied, and very high quality mix of styles and designs for all budgets. Some of the old series [...]
Carpathian Mint kicks off two new silver coin series with Rebel Time, and Seven Seals of the Apocalypse After a quiet few months, the Carpathian Mint is back with not one, but two new releases, both of which start off a new series. Each of them keeps the classic high-relief, antique-finished silver coin format, beloved [...]
Coins Today's stackable lineup gains a kilo jousting shield, and a bas-relief from Milan Cathedral South Korean producer, Coin's Today, has a quite amazing range of stackable silver bullion designs, pushing the concept past limits previously not considered. They've done so with an equally wide and eclectic range of subjects, from genres like science, history, [...]
