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One of the hit series from the last few years and one that helped popularise the growing market for the hard to strike domed coin format, Southern Sky was a three-coin range of 1oz domed silver coins depicting constellations visible in the southern night sky. First appearing in 2012 with the constellation Crux, a new coin was released annually, with Pavo in 2013 and Orion in 2014. After a [...]
Originators of the modern domed precious metal coin, the Monnaie de Paris kicked off what has quickly become one of the hottest trends in numismatics back in 2009, with the launch of a very cool coin to celebrate the official Year of Astronomy. Available in gold and silver, it was popular enough for the Royal Australian Mint to release their own silver three-coin series starting in 2012 and ending last year. Sport has seen [...]
The 2015 Netball World Cup, like the FIFA World Cup or the Olympics, is a tournament held every four years. This will be the fourteenth time the event has been staged and sixteen teams will compete for the title of World Champions, last won by Australia at the 2011 tournament in Singapore. This time around the location is Sydney, and as a result it's the Royal Australian Mint doing the commemorative coin honours. Like [...]
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 XXI have released six new coins this time, all of them additions to existing series, [...]
High relief, antiquing, and a little splash of blood for PMC's ten-ounce silver Ares, the Greek god of war, coin The Greek god of punch-ups, Ares, is no stranger to the coin world, and became famous in numismatic circles with the debut of a two-ounce coin from Numiartis a few years ago, that heralded a whole tsunami of similar coins struck by the Mint of Poland. He's appeared a few [...]
Precious Metal Collectors are back after a hiatus with a new copper-cored coin, Eight Dragon Buddha It's been a few months since we covered a new release from Singaporean producer, Precious Metal Collectors, but they're back with a new coin in their signature copper/silver hybrid range. The company has been very successful since it debuted a few years ago, rapidly gaining our attention with a striking, and varied selection of coins. [...]
Germania Mint wraps up a second of its world-building bullion range, as the Beech Leaf concludes Mythical Forest After recently expressing sadness at the wrapping up of Germania Mint's 'Allegories' bullion series, we're back doing the same for their pretty 'Mythical Forest' series as well. The mint has done a top job crafting out a world based around the historical region of Germania, with multiple interwoven series of bullion coins, along [...]
MARVEL COMICS: A guide to the Marvel World on coins With the popular culture world driving new collectors into our hobby, it's fair to say the volume of new issues has grown exponentially since the first of the modern wave dropped in 2013. The superhero genre was always going to be part of that, especially since the explosive growth of the two major cinematic universes The biggest of them, indeed [...]
The Mint of Gdańsk has been busy. Here's a round-up of their latest coin issues, from witch trials, to nuclear war. In our continuing press to get on top of a mighty backlog of new issues, here's our latest round-up. This time around, we're looking at the recent output of the increasingly prolific Mint of Gdańsk, who have quickly carved out a good reputation for inventive subject choice, and quality design. [...]
Albert Einstein was a giant in the scientific community, and his Theory of General Relativity was probably his greatest work. Ten years earlier, in 1905, he published a paper linking space and time, called Special Relativity. General Relativity expanded on it by incorporating gravity, saying the observed gravitational effect between masses is the result of their warping of spacetime. Einstein wasn't fallible, and this was cutting edge science, so the challenge became how [...]
Our galactic neighbourhood, the Milky Way, shines on new coins from the Czech Mint, and the Austrian Mint There’s no place like home! Our solar system sits within the Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy approximately 150-200,000 light years in diameter. It’s part of the Local Group of galaxies, which form part of the Virgo Supercluster, itself a component of the Laniakea Supercluster. Staggeringly, the Laniakea Supercluster holds over 100,000 galaxies [...]
Site updates to guides and profiles for late April and early May A quick update of our updates. There are many small ones not outlined here, but these are the main additions to our existing guides. It's important to let you know that once these profiles and guides are published, they aren't just left to languish and die, but are actively renewed on a regular basis. In some cases, like the [...]
Precious Metal Collectors heads into space with a mixed trio of new silver coins encompassing multiple techniques We're seeing a small resurgence in interest for coins with an astronomical theme, and Precious Metal Collectors (PMC), usually focused mainly on the world's various mythologies, with a smattering of art thrown in, have jumped in with three new issues, each completely different in design and format. Indeed, not only are they different in [...]
The chaos on Earth disappears when you admire it from space. LPM coin, 'Blue Marble', features the iconic 1972 Apollo 17 image Apollo 17 was the final mission in the hugely successful Apollo program, which NASA initiated in 1968 to put a man on the moon. The final mission, Apollo 17, took off on 07 December 1972, under the command of third-time astronaut, Eugene Cernan who, along with geologist, and Lunar [...]
Art Mint's elegant 'Mandala Art' series returns for a seventh release with a striking Turkish inspired design We've long admired Art Mint's flagship 'Mandala' series of coins, and it's been a pleasure to watch it grow in ambition and intricacy since it debuted in 2015. The last two issues in particular, the Gothic and the Persian, were beautiful examples of the numismatic art, and we're pleased to say that the 2021 [...]
