Continuing one of the few non-pop culture series the NZ Mint currently releases, Queen Cleopatra is the third in the 'Women of History' series of one-ounce silver coins. The series is casting a wide net, starting with the early 20th century Polish-French physicist, Marie Curie, then jumping back in time to feature the British warrior queen, Boudicca. With [...]
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 [...]
It's May 4th, or Star Wars Day as fans of the franchise have dubbed (May the 4th be with you, for those unaware of its origins), so like last year, we're getting a special Chibi coin to celebrate it. Last May 4th we got a special, two-ounce, gilded C3-PO coin, one of the rare two-ounce offerings, and up until [...]
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 [...]
The New Zealand Mint continues its celebration of Warner Brothers Studios's 100th anniversary, with its second five-ounce silver coin showcasing iconic movies from the film producer's extensive catalogue. The first of them was a neat 'Singing in the Rain' coin, which exhibited a classic look, and the NZ Mint's customary high-quality presentation. This second coin, despite also weighing [...]
The New Zealand Mint expands its offerings in the pop-culture coin genre, and there's more to come It's been a while since we did a multi-coin look at the copious output emanating from the New Zealand Mint, although we have been covering quite a few in our Quicklooks of late. We know the whole pop-culture and [...]
Bullion round-up 16: Ships on the water, superheroes under it, bulls, leopards and the arcade classic Dig-Dug Welcome to our sixteenth bullion coin round-up since we started doing these, and the second in March. It's been a busy month for new issues, and the selection of designs and formats continues to impress. We'd hoped to [...]
The behemoth that is the New Zealand Mint's Chibi range continues with only the second 'Mega-Chibi' release to date. These are basically the same as the rest of the range, except bigger, tipping the scales at two-ounces, rather than one. Surprisingly, given the low-profile of the character of late, it's Aquaman, from the DC Movies subset. Like the [...]
Chibi continues in 2023 with the addition of Marvel Comics to the range, and a new randomly inserted gilded variant Chibi has been quite the phenomenon for the New Zealand Mint. Despite only launching in June 2020, there are over 110 issues to date, and they continue to launch at the rate of 4-per-month, usually. We're [...]
The New Zealand Mint has offered a comprehensive selection of movie poster and comic book cover coins over the last decade, in both traditional, and foil formats, but they're now adding that absolute behemoth of a franchise to their portfolio for the first time - Marvel Comics. Marvel's main competitor, DC Comics, has been a regular at the NZ [...]
