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December, 2024

The One Who Waits – the Grim Reaper – launches a chilling new six-coin series called ‘Figures of Death’

By |2024-12-03T00:26:51+00:00December 2nd, 2024|Categories: Coins N'More, Art & Literature, Coloured, Gilded, Silver, Cameroon|

The One Who Waits - the Grim Reaper - launches a chilling new six-coin series called 'Figures of Death' Throughout history, cultures, including the greatest civilisations, have held a fascination with death and the afterlife. Particularly famous examples are the Aztecs, whose gruesome sacrifices to the gods of war and death are the stuff of legend, and, of course, the Ancient Egyptians, whose Book of the Dead is considered one [...]

November, 2024

The Chinese contribution to mankinds scientific progress is showcased on The Coin Company’s latest five-ounce silver coin

By |2024-11-20T15:40:00+00:00November 20th, 2024|Categories: Coloured, Science, Silver, Perth Mint, Tuvalu, The Coin Company|

The Chinese contribution to mankinds scientific progress is showcased on The Coin Company's latest five-ounce silver coin The Coin Company have, with the Perth Mint, released their latest antique-finished high-relief coin, and it's another showcasing five-ounce issue showcasing Chinese history and culture. Previous issues have included the Five Auspicious Creatures, Dragon & Phoenix, and Fu Lu Shou, amongst others (we really should profile this range!), but this latest coin is [...]

Love or politics? Caesar and Cleopatra’s relationship continues to garner numismatic attention two millennia later

By |2024-11-11T13:23:32+00:00November 11th, 2024|Categories: History, Coloured, Gilded, Silver, Cameroon, T&S Coins|

Love or politics? Caesar and Cleopatra's relationship continues to garner numismatic attention two millennia later Possibly the most famous, and disruptive, relationship in history, were those between the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra VII, and the Roman generals, Julius Caesar, and Mark Anthony. Caesar was the first to succumb to her charms, bearing him a son they named Caesarian (Little Caesar), although Caesar never acknowledged the child as his own. In fact, he [...]

October, 2024

Elephants, pandas, dinosaurs, silkpunk, Slavic myths, and eagles star in a wide selection for our latest bullion coin round-up (Week 44, 2024)

By |2024-10-30T23:09:16+00:00October 30th, 2024|Categories: Bullion roundup, Bullion, Gold, Bank of China, Silver, Emporium Hamburg, Mint of Gdansk, Numistrade, Royal Canadian Mint|

Elephants, pandas, dinosaurs, silkpunk, Slavic myths, and eagles star in a wide selection for our latest bullion coin round-up (Week 44, 2024) As promised, we're back with another Wednesday collection of new bullion issues. We're going to settle on one of these every two weeks, rather than weekly, to keep the number of coins per post up, given the haphazard release schedule compared to collectible coins, of which there are many [...]

Here’s a collation of some of the new bullion coin releases from around the world (Week 42, 2024)

By |2024-10-16T16:53:15+01:00October 16th, 2024|Categories: Bullion roundup, Bullion, Gold, Silver, Chad, Niue Island, Samoa, PAMP, Royal Mint, Scottsdale Mint, United Kingdom|

Here's a collation of some of the new bullion coin releases from around the world (Week 42, 2024) We've been having some success with our weekly round-up of new coin releases on Fridays, and we used to do similar things last year with bullion coins, so I've decided to continue with similar weekly bullion collections on Wednesdays, moving forward. This should allow me to cover more in a less in-depth way, [...]

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is the story adorning the Lithuanian Mint’s apple-shaped coin

By |2024-10-14T15:25:14+01:00October 14th, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Silver, Cameroon, Lithuanian Mint|

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is the story adorning the Lithuanian Mint's apple-shaped coin The Lithuanian Mint continues to surprise with its use of some quite unique artistic styles with this very unusual new biblical coin. We all know the story of the first people, Adam and Eve, and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden after disobeying God by eating the forbidden fruit from the Tree of [...]

Here’s our latest look at some of the standout new coin issues from various producers (Week 41, 2024)

By |2024-10-11T12:53:57+01:00October 11th, 2024|Categories: News|

Here's our latest look at some of the standout new coin issues from various producers (Week 41, 2024) Our collation of releases last Friday seems to have been successful, so we're going to keep doing it moving forward. It allows me to cover interesting coins we may otherwise not have time to get around to, something that always annoys me. Besides, you really don't need us to tell you what, [...]

September, 2024

After a two-year hiatus, Numiscollect’s Equinox and Solstice series, featuring ancient relationships to the sun, returns with the Chaco culture

By |2024-09-09T19:26:55+01:00September 9th, 2024|Categories: Culture, History, Coloured, Inserts, Silver, Palau, Numiscollect|

After a two-year hiatus, Numiscollect's Equinox and Solstice series, featuring ancient relationships to the sun, returns with the Chaco culture It was in late 2021 that Numiscollect debuted a new archaeology series, and it was a different to the usual subjects that have proliferated in modern numismatics over the last decade. Rather than the usual buildings, structures, leaders, or gods, this series showcases how the ancient cultures built their structures [...]

August, 2024

Allcollect releases the fifth and final P. De Greef designed Predators coin, this time featuring the Lynx Cat

By |2024-08-29T18:26:04+01:00August 29th, 2024|Categories: Allcollect, Nature, Silver, Ivory Coast|

Allcollect releases the fifth and final P. De Greef designed Predators coin, this time featuring the Lynx Cat Over the last few years, German producer, AllCollect, have garnered a fine reputation for its range of distinctive high-relief wildlife coins. Employing the talents of artist Beni Debacker, and Belgian medal maker, P. De Greef, there has been a constant stream of sublime designs, primarily in AllCollect's various 'Big Five' ranges, but also, [...]

Mint of MK adds Bone Demons, Norse goddesses, witches, and a flat earth coin for those who like the make-believe worlds we create

By |2024-08-19T16:25:00+01:00August 19th, 2024|Categories: Culture, Coloured, Gilded, Science, Silver, Cameroon, Gabon, Mint of MK, The Gold Village|

Mint of MK adds Bone Demons, Norse goddesses, witches, and a flat earth coin for those who like the make-believe worlds we create The Mint of MK continues to expand its broad range of low mintage coins, and in an effort to keep up, we've another round-up of four of the latest ones that caught our eye the most We haven't looked at the latest Zodiac issues as we're producing a Coin [...]

July, 2024

Last year’s impressive Sword of the Archangel Michael returns with gilded, and rose gilded variants, and a new series display system

By |2024-07-12T12:21:40+01:00July 12th, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Silver, Coins Today KR|

Last year's impressive Sword of the Archangel Michael returns with gilded, and rose gilded variants, and a new series display system Released last October, the Sword of the Archangel Michael was a striking silver sword emblazoned with a famous prayer to him. Formed in 2.5 ounces of fine silver, it was a fine piece of work, followed up in May this year by a similar Sword of Saint Gabriel design. These [...]

PRESS RELEASE: U.S. Mint to partner with Warner Bros. Discovery for a new range of DC Superhero coins and medals

By |2024-07-10T11:44:59+01:00July 10th, 2024|Categories: News Nuggets|

PRESS RELEASE: U.S. Mint to partner with Warner Bros. Discovery for a new range of DC Superhero coins and medals It appears that the complicated and convoluted world of licencing is getting even more so, with the announcement this morning that the United States Mint will be offering coins and medals featuring DC Comics superheroes. Honestly, we've given up tracking who has the rights to what these days, but there's [...]

June, 2024

Harry Potter Magical Creatures: Hungarian Horntail 1oz silver coin (2024 New Zealand Mint)

By |2024-06-13T16:52:41+01:00June 13th, 2024|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint/Agoro|

Despite a lack of new movies in recent years, the Harry Potter juggernaut continues on, with a new HBO Max reboot due in 2026, and new coins appearing regularly. Our giant Thematic Guide to Harry Potter coins is one of our biggest, and continues to grow, with several producers still releasing a wide range of very varied designs. One of the biggest and most prolific, as well as the producer of the [...]

After Twelve Provinces, and Twelve Castles, the Royal Dutch Mint embarks on a silver Ducat look at Twelve Gates

By |2024-06-10T13:45:32+01:00June 10th, 2024|Categories: Architecture, History, Coloured, Silver, Koninklijke Nederlandse, Netherlands|

After Twelve Provinces, and Twelve Castles, the Royal Dutch Mint embarks on a silver Ducat look at Twelve Gates In 2015, the Royal Dutch Mint debuted its twelve-coin series of silver ducats themed around the same number of provinces that make up the Netherlands. Each one was struck in the classic ducat format of 28.25 grams of 0.873 fineness silver, to a proof finish. In a nod to historical precedent, [...]

May, 2024

Silver foil coins are back in style with a 12-piece Zodiac Series from eDonnaDesign inspired by Czech artist, Alphonse Mucha

By |2024-05-30T00:01:25+01:00May 30th, 2024|Categories: Art & Literature, Banknote / Foil, Culture, Coloured, Silver, Cameroon, eDonnaDesign|

Silver foil coins are back in style with a 12-piece Zodiac Series from eDonnaDesign inspired by Czech artist, Alphonse Mucha It was only a few years ago that we started to see a big uptick in the number of silver foils being released, and almost as suddenly, they tapered off. We have a collection of Foil Series Profiles which look at many of them, including favourites, like the Batman Villains, the [...]

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