British Lions rugby team is off to New Zealand and the NZ Post marks it with a new silver coin One of those sports that is hugely popular amongst Commonwealth countries, rugby continues to grow in viewership worldwide. The Rugby World Cup back in 2015 attracted numismatic interest, indeed the Monnaie de [...]
Southern Lights. Holographic technique brings NZ Posts latest proof silver coin to life The official issuer of New Zealand commemorative coins, the New Zealand Post, has just launched its latest proof silver coin and it's another one with a twist. It isn't often that the relatively overlooked southern lights, also called the [...]
New Zealands annual $5 silver coin features a native bird, the Laughing Owl Just once a year the New Zealand Post issues a $5 silver commemorative coin and like the Royal Australian Mint's Kangaroo series, they're themed into smaller chunks to give the long-running and open-ended series some kind of structure for [...]
New Zealand celebrates the Taniwha, a Maori water being, with new proof coins. In the scurry to fill out the numismatic world with the gods of Greece and Scandinavia, some interesting areas the of old mythologies have been overlooked. Case in point are the Maori legends of New Zealand, featured only by [...]
New Zealand issues its annual gold and silver Kiwi bird coins. A long running annual event, the New Zealand Post release a series of coins featuring that most unique of birds, the Kiwi. So associated with New Zealand that people from the country are called Kiwi's, it comes as no surprise [...]
The latest new coin from the New Zealand Post is now available, and it's a good one. Featuring the Honey Bee, one of the most important creatures on Earth for humans, it looks primarily at this amazing insects association with honey and the hive. Struck in fine silver, this one ounce coin is hexagonal in shape, [...]
The breakneck pace of release of the New Zealand Mints Creatures of Greek Mythology silver coin series continues apace with the sixth debut in under a year. This unusual series takes a look at the underbelly of the realms of the ancient gods with such interesting creatures as Cerberus, the Centaur, Minotaur, the Gorgon, and Cyclopes. [...]
No doubt there will be many coins featuring this years Summer Olympics, a couple have already surfaced, but the New Zealand Post have jumped in with a pair of their own and look to have done a good job. Struck in fine silver or fine gold, both with some selective colouring (more so on the silver), [...]
Every year, New Zealand issues a $5 annual coin in silver and over the last couple of years the theme has settled on some of the highly unusual birds that have lived in this fascinating country, but have passed into extinction. Back in 2014 the coin featured a huge penguin called the Kairuku, followed in 2015 [...]
For the first time ever, the New Zealand Post has released a mini-gold coin, taking advantage of the growing popularity of the little 0.5g fine gold format that's been popularised of late by producers, especially Coin Invest Trust and Treasures of Oz. Despite being only 11-15mm in diameter, the format is capable of holding a good level of detail [...]
