The newest silver release is a coin featuring one of the most thought-provoking religious orders in history – the Knights Templar. This imposing group only existed for around 200 years, and collapsed over 700 years ago, but they remain to this day a part of the popular consciousness, especially for conspiracy theorists, and in Hollywood.

The coin design pushes in to the mystery and religious nature of the Knights Templar, rather than the military, like in Mint XXI’s latest take, and we see a member of the order being knighted while a priest, and fellow knights look on. Moments like this are what forged the men in this group to the zealotry necessary to terrify their enemy on the battlefields of the Holy Land. The colouring is restrained and well-placed, and the signature gilded highlights equally so. A neat, different take on an iconic historical group.

A hugely popular theme in modern numismatics is without question, Ancient Egypt. The land of the pyramids, and one of the most varied and eclectic pantheons of gods in the ancient world, make for a fertile breeding ground for ideas. One of the many deities in that pantheon is one we rarely see on a coin, and that is Maat, the goddess of truth and justice, who also regulates the stars and seasons. Her ideological opposite was Isfet, who stood for chaos and violence, the next coin, perhaps.

As the designers at T&S are wont to do, the female deity is depicted semi-naked, and quite beautiful. She wears the traditional Egyptian headdress we know so well from the innumerable hieroglyphs that adorn the old temples, this time adorned with the ostrich feather (the Feather of Truth) she’s associated with. She is winged, and carries her traditional sceptre in one hand, and ankh in the other. The setting is quintessentially Egyptian, replete with temple structures and the Nile river, upon which the boat she kneels in floats.

A fine composition, it does a good job of showcasing one of the myriad of deities created by this very imaginative ancient civilisation. The first issue in this Echoes of Egypt series was Thoth, which we covered at the time.

Memento Mori translates from the Latin as ‘Remember to die’, and has been a popular fixture in art and literature for centuries, especially in Western Europe, where many of the visual elements appeared in art. It links mortality and time, particularly the idea that no matter who you are, time is a resource that can’t be bought, and is finite in nature to every living thing.

As you see so often with Memento Mori art, the skull dominates, here combined with the personification of death, and an hourglass quantifying the passage of a person’s life. To the left of the skull are colourful flowers, signifying the vibrancy of life, while to the right, a tree devoid of foliage, harking to an absence of it. Like almost all of T&S Coin’s output, this one is packed to the rim with fine details, and while this isn’t an original take on the concept, I do think it’s one of the best at encapsulating it.

The first of the two gold ranges here is also the very latest release from them at the time of writing. This time it’s a three-size re-issue of the second in the ‘Power of Love’ silver coin series, Caesar and Cleopatra, which we covered back in late 2024. We’ve already seen a similar transition for Amenhotep and Nefertiti, the first in that range, and it also came in three sizes.

Those sizes remain the same for Caz and Cleo, with a one-ounce having a tiny mintage of just 50 pieces, a quarter-ounce with 100, and a tenth-ounce at 200. All are sold separately, as we’re guessing with the gold price where it is today, the cost of a boxed set would be prohibitive. T&S has also kept the practice, pioneered by the NZ Mint for its Star Wars Classic range, of having the smaller coins take a crop of the full image, rather than trying to cram the design from a 37 mm coin onto a 16 mm one. We’re big fans of that here, as it gives the smaller, and more affordable coins a distinct flavour of their own. Issued for Liberia, this seems to maintain the standard that this producer has kept to transitioning its high-relief silver coins to gold.

With 2026 being the 250th anniversary of the United States, and there being the inevitable flood of items celebrating the milestone, expect to see a whole raft of new coins to mark the occasion. T&S have jumped in with a single two-ounce silver coin, that literally screams USA at the observer, packing in a whole swathe of American iconography, yet managing to keep it all cohesive.

The focal point is a gilded eagle in flight, a bird synonymous with the country. Behind it, taking the place of the sky, is a coloured Stars and Stripes. The border in the top quarter is filled with the thirteen stars that represent the founding colonies, with the bottom occupied by the Liberty Bell, from which two olive branches arc away. The area below the eagle is filled with iconic American architecture, including Mount Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty, and the Empire State Building. All told, a clever encompassing of the United States on a 45 mm diameter disc of metal, and one of the best we’ve seen on the subject.

Again, this release sees T&S Coin dip into their past releases for inspiration, bringing the super Ganesha silver coin from last January to their selection of gold coins. Like the Caesar and Cleopatra coin we’ve already talked about, the design remains basically the same, but eschewing the high-relief, colour and gilding.

Just two formats on offer this time, with the quarter-ounce coin absent. The one-ounce coin has an intricately patterned background on both faces, which looks beautiful, and really suits the theme. Unlike the Caesar coin, the smaller gold keeps the full artwork, except for that background pattern, and it works fine here, as it’s basically a single element anyway.