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Lots of updates to guides and new profiles. You might have thought we'd been a little quieter than usual this week, but nothing could be further from the truth. We've always stated that articles like thematic guides, and coin series profiles, were pretty pointless if they weren't updated on a regular basis, and so we often spend a lot of time doing that, sometimes more than I'd like given how crushingly [...]
TAROT MAJOR ARCANA (2021-) by the New Zealand Mint For at least 600 years, a pack of cards called The Tarot, have been used to play games across parts of Europe, starting in Italy. However, starting in 18th century France, the cards captured the attention of occultists, and from there, the Tarot deck took on two distinct forms. Today, most interest in the cards is centred around their occult use [...]
Coin's Today launches a new range of silver sword bullion, starting with the angelic blade of the Archangel Michael Unquestionably one of our favourite bullion producers working today, South Korean producer, Coin's Today, has built up an enviable reputation with its numerous, innovative bullion offerings. While their most popular products are almost certainly the various stackable issues, some quite extraordinary in design detailing, they also have some that are meant [...]
The green tinted Celadon Porcelain is the backdrop for an extraordinary coin featuring Claude Monet's 'Water-Lily Pond' painting After the impressive debut release of a 3.6 kg, 188 mm diameter copper-cored coin last month, MK are back with what we can only describe as another extraordinary coin. This one is, however, completely different in just about every way when it comes to fabrication, and attempts to merge the artistic styles of [...]
The East India Company brings ultimate bling to the coin world with a 3.6 kg gold coin adorned with almost 6.500 diamonds The death of Queen Elizabeth II still resonates, understandable given her 70-year reign. It's almost unimaginable to realise the vast majority of the world's seven billion people were born after she took the throne. Her image has graced billions of coins, changing in appearance as she did, but [...]
Germania Mint grows its silver bullion offerings with the first of their glow-in-the-dark Runes They say that simple ideas are almost always the most effective, and the latest bullion offering from Germania Mint is a perfect example. Take a lump of silver, stamp it with a character, and if done right, you have something packed with symbolism, and just a little different. What Germania Mint has done is exactly that, [...]
A long-running series at the Narodowy Bank (National Bank of Poland), its full title is The Enduring Soldiers Accursed by the Communists, and it remembers the soldiers in Poland that continued the fight against the Communists after the Second World War. Surprisingly, few have much knowledge of this period, which was mainly clouded by the celebrations of VE Day, and the dropping of the Iron Curtain, but it was a brutal [...]
The Lithuanian Mint showcases its broad talents with a selection of coins from ancient gods to the circus A mint we've covered many times before, but still underserved a little, the Lithuanian Mint has blossomed in recent years to a serious competitor to producers like the Mint of Poland, CIT and Mint XXI, for example. Their style is highly eclectic, and they're not afraid to tap into the weirder world for [...]
The Royal Mint's celebration of British Music Legends continues with Dame Shirley Bassey, the sixth in the series With a line-up to date that has included such luminaries as Queen, Elton John, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, and The Who., the Royal Mint's 'Music Legends' series more than lives up to its name. The sixth coin in the series has now launched, and it features a female vocalist for the first [...]
Dungeons & Dragons comes to the coin world with the first issue in the Dragonlance Chronicles Is there anybody that hasn't at least heard of Dungeons and Dragons? Next year will see the 50th anniversary of the popular role-playing game, one so iconic it has penetrated almost every field of modern culture. It appears the modern coin world has resisted so far, but no more, as the Carpathian Mint, via [...]
AgAuShoot: Germania Mint to launch a new bullion coin for Malta. We have our images, and a coin to give away Having built up a world based around the ancient historical provinces of Germania using multiple interwoven series of bullion coins, it now seems Germania Mint has set its sights on enhancing its collaboration with the Mediterranean island of Malta. They've already issued a pair of excellent designs in both bullion [...]
Exclusive first look! Coin's Today mines the rich religious culture of India for its latest stackable bullion - Ganesha Back with another of their innovative stackable silver bullion releases, Coin's Today dives into the deep, and varied world of Indian mythology, more specifically, that of Hinduism. Revered as the remover of obstacles and the lord of wisdom and intellect, Lord Ganesha is easily recognizable with his elephant head and pot-belly, symbolising [...]
Allcollect goes big with its latest one-kilo silver coin highlighting mans impact on nature in the modern world It's a sad fact of life that the proliferation of humanity across the globe has had a detrimental effect on our planets other inhabitants. Sometimes through ignorance, often through corporate greed, but also from our need to feed ourselves, the natural world has borne the brunt of our progress, moreso now than ever [...]
Spring Launch Special: CIT releases a wide range of new issues, and here are three of our favourites It's Spring Launch time, and we're absolutely inundated with new coin issues from some of the industry's biggest producers, We obviously can't cover them all on release day (there are about 80 so far!), so we'll take three from three to kick off the coverage. Starting it off are three coins from the [...]
WORLD OF CRYPTIDS (2023) by Lithuanian Mint For centuries, the weird and mysterious has often been attributed to unexplainable creatures of the night. Regular coin collectors will know they’ve been a rich source of inspiration for some quite superb issues, in recent years, but most of them have been at the higher end. The Lithuanian Mint has debuted a new 12-coin series, apparently all to be issued through 2023, which will [...]
