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March, 2024

The Royal Mint returns to the Star Wars universe with a second four-issue series of proof coins, and all new bullion bars

By |2024-03-18T00:01:32+00:00March 18th, 2024|Categories: Bullion, Movies & TV, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint|

The Royal Mint returns to the Star Wars universe with a second four-issue series of proof coins, and all new bullion bars Last July, the Royal Mint surprised us with a new Star Wars coin collection, a franchise which had been associated with the New Zealand Mint for almost a decade. Consisting of four designs, each depicting a pair of characters, they were available in a choice of three gold, [...]

October, 2023

The New Zealand Mint’s ‘trading coin’ concept makes the jump from Star Wars to Marvel, with 51 new coins

By |2023-10-13T13:45:55+01:00October 13th, 2023|Categories: Coloured, Movies & TV, Gold, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

The New Zealand Mint's 'trading coin' concept makes the jump from Star Wars to Marvel, with 51 new coins Just a couple of months ago, we reported on a new concept issued by the New Zealand Mint. Called Mint Trading Coins, they basically take the age-old swapping idea from baseball and bubblegum cards, and applies it to silver coins. The first range featured 51 coins depicting characters from the Star [...]

September, 2023

Updated Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Marvel Comics Thematic Coin Guides

By |2023-09-04T13:46:12+01:00September 4th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

We're particularly proud of our Thematic Guides, which round-up coins, usually from multiple mints, based on the subject, rather than the series. Three of the biggest were updated last week. The first is the only single-mint one of the three, Star Wars, which compiles all the releases from the NZ Mint's licence, obtained when they got it in 2016. It's also a behemoth, and the oldest of them all. We've added Chibi, [...]

August, 2023

The NZ Mint merges coins and the trading card world with their new ‘mint.’ Star Wars randomised coin program

By |2023-08-14T09:46:34+01:00August 14th, 2023|Categories: Coloured, Movies & TV, Gold, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

The NZ Mint merges coins and the trading card world with their new 'mint.' Star Wars randomised coin program Star Wars remains a coin behemoth, and this month, the NZ Mint, who over the last decade has built up an enviable range, is trying out something new, and perhaps more than a little unusual. It's called mint., and looks to bring the trading card market to silver coins. You can read [...]

July, 2023

Star Wars comes to the home of the Empire! The Royal Mint debuts the famous droids on three coins

By |2023-07-10T19:46:59+01:00July 4th, 2023|Categories: Coloured, Movies & TV, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Star Wars comes to the home of the Empire! The Royal Mint debuts the famous droids on three coins (UPDATED) In what is very surprising news, the Royal Mint here in the UK is debuting the first in a new range of Star Wars coins. The franchise has a long association with the UK, with the original trilogy largely being filmed here, but this is the first time that original trilogy Star [...]

June, 2023

The New Zealand Mint’s expansive Star Wars range swells with the addition of another varied selection of silver coins

By |2023-06-20T18:01:51+01:00June 20th, 2023|Categories: Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

The New Zealand Mint's expansive Star Wars range swells with the addition of another varied selection of silver coins We've been a bit quieter on the New Zealand Mint's many franchised media coins of late, choosing to take a break from trying to cover everything in favour of mixing up our article choice a little, but we're back with a little round-up of the last months issues in the giant Star [...]

May, 2023

Five new Chibi coins from the New Zealand Mint, with Star Wars, DC, and Marvel characters featured

By |2023-05-26T19:53:12+01:00May 26th, 2023|Categories: News Nuggets, Site Update, NZ Mint|

Five new Chibi coins from the New Zealand Mint, with Star Wars, DC, and Marvel characters featured We've been a little behind this month on the New Zealand Mint stuff, as our contact there has moved on, and we've been setting up with the new one, so we haven't had our image pack for long. Normality should [...]

April, 2023

Star Wars Jedi Order Crest silver bullion coin (2023 New Zealand Mint)

By |2023-04-17T23:33:00+01:00April 17th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

A new Star Wars bullion joins the New Zealand Mint's copious range, and for this release we're back in their Faction Symbol series for the fourth time. This range features the symbols of the major groups in the Star Wars Universe, and follows the Mandalorian, Galactic Empire, and Rebel Alliance designs. Quite a simple series, it nevertheless evokes a strong emotion with hard-core fans, as each is strongly iconic. This time around we [...]

January, 2023

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 40th Anniversary Poster coin (2023 New Zealand Mint)

By |2023-01-13T08:35:20+00:00January 13th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Nature, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

The last of the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi, is now celebrating its 40th anniversary, and as it did with both 'A New Hope' and 'The Empire Strikes Back', the New Zealand Mint is reissuing its movie poster coin with the anniversary logo. These rectangular coins reproduce the original movie posters, and all nine of the movies and their anniversaries, are now available. The Star Wars movies enjoyed quite the [...]

November, 2022

MDM add new offerings in gold and silver to it’s extensive Harry Potter range, and the NZ Mint does likewise for Star Wars

By |2022-11-25T01:17:57+00:00November 24th, 2022|Categories: News Nuggets, Site Update|

MDM add new offerings in gold and silver to it's extensive Harry Potter range, and the NZ Mint does likewise for Star Wars It isn't just CIT and Mint XXI putting out impressive new coins for the autumn season, as German producer, MDM, have also done so with another unusual collection. We'll take a look at some of them next week, but in the meantime, we've pulled out the Harry Potter coins [...]

Star Wars and Disney bullion coin guides updated

By |2022-11-23T11:03:40+00:00November 23rd, 2022|Categories: News Nuggets, Site Update|

Star Wars and Disney bullion coin guides updated With new entrants in both the Star Wars Bullion, and Disney Bullion ranges reported on yesterday, it became clear to me that both of the guides to them were a little rough around the edges. As a result, both of them have been revamped to our new layout, still using the big 1200 pixel images we know you like, and even expanded in the [...]

May, 2022

As it approaches its 80th issue, the NZ Mint’s Chibi gets a special edition and it’s for Star Wars May 4th Be With You Day

By |2022-05-03T23:01:31+01:00May 3rd, 2022|Categories: Movies & TV, Gilded, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

As it approaches its 80th issue, the NZ Mint's Chibi gets a special edition and it's for Star Wars May 4th Be With You Day After almost 80 issues, it's become increasingly difficult to spice up a Chibi coin article for something new, so they've joined our Quicklooks and Film Round-up articles for coverage, but the arrival of a first special edition after so much activity is worth the expending of [...]

April, 2022

The NZ Mint dominates our latest TV/Film coin round-up with a Star Wars Battle Scenes series, Lord of the Rings, and Pinocchio

By |2022-04-22T19:22:42+01:00April 22nd, 2022|Categories: Bullion, Film/TV roundup, Coloured, Movies & TV, Gold, Silver, Crown Mint, NZ Mint|

The NZ Mint dominates our latest TV/Film coin round-up with a Star Wars Battle Scenes series, Lord of the Rings, and Pinocchio Our second round-up of film and television themed coins this month, as the flood of issues continues unabated. The New Zealand Mint is here in numbers, of course, along with APMEX and the Crown Mint, but it's a surprise to see Singaporean producer, Precious Metal Collectors join the ranks, [...]

Our early April round-up of the latest film/TV coins is here. Star Wars, Marvel, DC Comics, and Star Trek

By |2022-04-05T22:09:29+01:00April 5th, 2022|Categories: Bullion, Film/TV roundup, Coloured, Movies & TV, Gold, Silver, Crown Mint, NZ Mint|

Our early April round-up of the latest film/TV coins is here. Star Wars, Marvel, DC Comics, and Star Trek Time for another of our attempts to stay on top of the ongoing tsunami of TV and film themed coin releases, and also to catch up with the prolific New Zealand Mint, who almost exclusively stick to this genre now. A tiring job, along with the companion bullion round-ups we do, but the [...]

September, 2021

STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN BULLION COIN (2021 NZ Mint)

By |2021-09-20T20:22:23+01:00September 20th, 2021|Categories: Quicklooks, Movies & TV, Gold, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Star Wars bullion returns today with the new APMEXclusive release of the New Zealand Mints latest. This one is going to be super popular, we think, given it showcases the biggest character of the moment, The Mandalorian. The smash-hit Disney TV series is soon to start showing season 3, so we don't doubt that fans will start looking around for merchandise, and what better than a bit of timeless precious metal?As usual, there's [...]

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