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July, 2017

Roswell, the worlds most famous UFO conspiracy, is remembered on a domed, fluoresecent silver coin

By |2017-07-07T18:33:52+01:00July 6th, 2017|Categories: Culture, Art Mint, Silver, Niue Island|

Roswell, the worlds most famous UFO conspiracy, is remembered on a domed, fluoresecent silver coin Parisian-based coin producer Art Mint has debuted a cool, quirky silver coin today, one that commemorates 70 years since the much believed crash-landing of an alien spacecraft in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Having started a whole raft of conspiracy theories soon after, they continue to propogate and be believed [...]

April, 2017

Mint of Polands domed solar system coin series voyages out to the enigmatic Red Planet

By |2017-04-07T21:57:13+01:00April 7th, 2017|Categories: Nature, Inserts, Science, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|

Mint of Polands domed solar system coin series voyages out to the enigmatic Red Planet The second of our exclusive looks at the Mint of Poland and Pela-Coins latest releases, following the excellent Nummulites Evolution of Earth debut yesterday. Like that coin, this third launch in the domed Solar System series is running at the top of its genre and continues on with a series that has [...]

March, 2017

Royal Canadian Mint to debut a five-ounce domed silver Maple Leaf coin. MDM Exclusive.

By |2017-03-20T20:07:35+00:00March 6th, 2017|Categories: News Nuggets, Nature, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

Royal Canadian Mint to debut a five-ounce domed silver Maple Leaf coin. MDM Exclusive. UPDATE: Video has been removed by MDM. Apparently the embargo is April 4th but this look slike a coin worth waiting for. We'll update when availability changes. There's never a shortage of maple leaf coins from the Royal Canadian Mint. Over the years there have been so many variations that we've lost [...]

February, 2017

Third four-layer concave silver coin debuts the impressive domed ceiling of the US Capitol building

By |2017-02-15T19:12:07+00:00February 6th, 2017|Categories: Architecture, Gold, Silver, MDM, Samoa|

Third four-layer concave silver coin debuts the impressive domed ceiling of the US Capitol building German dealer MDM has launched the third in its impressive concave coins showcasing some of the incredible ceilings that adorn many iconic buildings around the globe. The first coin took the Temple of Heaven in the Forbidden City as its subject matter, the second the incredible domed ceiling in St. Peters [...]

December, 2016

Australian Northern Sky series of domed silver coins wraps with the constellation Cygnus

By |2016-12-05T10:02:17+00:00December 5th, 2016|Categories: Coloured, Nature, Australia, Silver, Royal Australian Mint|

Australian Southern Sky series of domed silver coins wraps with the constellation Cygnus. One of the earlier series of domed coins to hit the market, inspired as they were by the Monnaie de paris effort of 2009 celebrating the International Year of Astronomy, the 'Sky' series by the Royal Australian Mint has been extremely popular since its inception in 2013. The first trilogy was called Southern Sky [...]

November, 2016

After Captain America, Marvel’s Doctor Strange gets a domed silver coin

By |2016-11-26T14:12:39+00:00November 26th, 2016|Categories: Gilded, Movies & TV, Silver, Tuvalu|

After Captain America, Marvel's Doctor Strange gets a domed silver coin of its own. Superhero films continue unabated and it's no surprise that the numismatic worlds celebration of the new 'in' movie genre has also kept pace. With everything from DC favourites like Batman and Superman, to Marvel giants like the Avengers, Spiderman and Captain America, coin collectors, or at least movie fans, clearly like these [...]

Canadian domed coin trio showcases football and the Planet Earth

By |2016-11-05T06:30:12+00:00November 2nd, 2016|Categories: Coloured, Gold, Science, Sport, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

Canadian domed coin trio showcases football and the Planet Earth After an unusual early mid-month release last week, the Royal Canadian Mint ploughs on through yet another bumper release schedule. It appears that the gimmicky type of coin is in the ascendant there, so we're seeing plenty of new ideas and technical innovation. The first five coins we looked at including adornments, inserts in [...]

October, 2016

Berlin Cathedrals magnificent dome reproduced on Solomon Islands domed coin

By |2016-12-04T19:33:51+00:00October 10th, 2016|Categories: Architecture, Allcollect, Coloured, Silver, Solomon Islands|

Berlin Cathedrals magnificent dome reproduced on Cook Islands domed coin With domed coins enjoying a big wave of popularity, there's a growing selection of fine designs appearing on the market. Like art-architectural, and ancient mythology coins, the domed variety attracts an inordinate amount of very high quality issues, so nobody here is complaining. Astronomy and sport seem to be the most common subjects, with [...]

August, 2016

Captain America is 75 and Fiji issues a cool domed silver coin to celebrate

By |2016-11-05T06:30:38+00:00August 9th, 2016|Categories: Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Fiji|

Along with antique finish ancient gods coins, domed coins seem to have maintained an impressive quality level across the board. A broad and innovative selection has appeared over the last few years as more and more mints master the complexities of minting them. From astronomy to sport, there's hardly been a dud amongst them. The main reason we believe, is the careful choice of subject. Great ideas are crucial to the [...]

June, 2016

Basketball celebrated on the latest domed silver coin from Canada

By |2016-11-05T06:30:47+00:00June 28th, 2016|Categories: Coloured, Sport, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

The rise of the domed coin continues with the second big release in little over a week. After the new Northern Sky coin from the Royal Australian Mint (RAM) launched last week, it's the turn of fellow Commonwealth country Canada to join in with the Royal Canadian Mints(RCM) first coloured domed coin. This one goes back to the world of sport, previously dipped into with cricket, baseball, rugby, netball, and football [...]

Australia launches next Northern Sky domed silver coin featuring Ursa Major

By |2016-11-05T06:30:50+00:00June 20th, 2016|Categories: Coloured, Nature, Australia, Silver, Royal Australian Mint|

Domed coins have been a big hit over the last few years as the ability to strike them to a high standard has spread from the Monnaie de Paris to other mints. One of the first to embrace the format was the Royal Australian Mint back in 2012 with a space coin depicting the constellation Crux, with a new coin was released annually, Pavo in 2013 and Orion in 2014. Such [...]

April, 2016

Mercury is the second of the Mint of Polands domed Solar System silver coins

By |2016-11-05T06:31:04+00:00April 13th, 2016|Categories: Nature, Inserts, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|

In our view, one of the best of last years meteorite coins was the excellent Solar System:Moon coin from the Mint of Poland and they made no secret of the fact it was to be the first coin in a new series. This year sees the second in the series to be launched and it's heading sunwards to one of the most enigmatic bodies in our solar system, Mercury. Like [...]

March, 2016

MCI-Mint launch a five-ounce domed meteorite coin with origins on Mercury

By |2016-11-05T06:31:10+00:00March 22nd, 2016|Categories: Nature, Inserts, Silver, MCI Mint, Mali|

A second high-end meteorite coin this week comes from old hand MCI-Mint in Germany. Like the three-ounce coin released by Numiscollect earlier this week, this is one of the bigger releases in this genre, coming in at a full five-ounces of fine antiqued silver, not the first time MCI have gone so large having previously launched a domed coin like this with a moon meteorite theme. The big selling point [...]

January, 2016

Canada releases its first domed coin celebrating 140 years of the Library of Parliament

By |2016-11-05T12:35:50+00:00January 30th, 2016|Categories: History, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

With domed coins being one of the huge success stories of the last couple of years, and with the skillset required to strike them well working its way around the industry, it's obvious that many of the big players that have yet to join the party will do so. The biggest mint to jump on board the bandwagon is now that behemoth of the commemorative coin world, the Royal Canadian Mint. [...]

December, 2015

Deep Impact Week: Large meteorite coin launches that’s both domed and five ounces in weight

By |2016-11-05T06:31:26+00:00December 26th, 2015|Categories: Nature, Inserts, Science, Silver, MCI Mint, Mali|

Deep Impact week powers on with a fine piece combing two popular trends into a single design. The first of those trends is the increasing use of five-ounces as a weight for numismatics. The second is the hit status afforded to domed coins. With Sikhote Alin being a 5oz coin and the Mint of Polands Solar System:Moon being domed, meteorite coins have ventured into this coins domain before, but none have [...]

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