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January, 2024

Star Trek returns to the New Zealand Mint with a pair of shaped silver USS Enterprise coins

By |2024-01-19T14:31:18+00:00January 19th, 2024|Categories: Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Star Trek returns to the New Zealand Mint with a pair of shaped silver USS Enterprise coins With Star Trek back on the agenda at the New Zealand Mint, we're expecting to see an increased variety and volume of new coins as the year progresses. I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if the next in the mints ambitious Trading Coin range turns out to be for this franchise, [...]

July, 2023

Star Trek Starfleet Command silver coin (2023 MDM Wholesale)

By |2023-07-12T20:35:35+01:00July 12th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, MDM, Samoa|

It's turned into a day of pop-culture Quicklooks, and this time we're at German producer MDM with their Star Trek Starfleet Command silver coin, due to ship this month. Despite a couple of recent cancellations, Star Trek is having a bit of a renaissance at the moment, with 'Strange New World's' garnering very positive reviews, and rightly so, in our opinion. With well over half a century of material to work with, it [...]

April, 2022

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 [...]

November, 2021

Movie & TV coin roundup for late November and there’s bullion, and Captain Kirk launches Star Trek into the Chibiverse

By |2022-04-01T14:49:20+01:00November 23rd, 2021|Categories: Film/TV roundup, Coloured, Silver, New Zealand, Niue Island, NZ Mint, NZ Post|

Movie & TV coin roundup for late November and there's bullion, and Captain Kirk launches Star Trek into the Chibiverse Round-up number six has come round sooner than we expected, or wanted, to be honest, but there's no escaping the fact the genre is on a roll at the moment. At least we have some neat bullion coins for a change, but the rest are additions to ongoing series, so an [...]

December, 2019

Star Trek coins boldly go for a neat change, with the Perth Mint’s new Holey Dollar and Delta

By |2019-12-03T19:29:40+00:00December 3rd, 2019|Categories: Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|

Star Trek coins boldly go for a neat change, with the Perth Mint's new Holey Dollar and Delta After an initial period when the Perth Mint was the only coin producer issuing Star Trek themed product, it wasn't long before the convoluted world of licenced franchising added the Royal Canadian Mint to the mix, followed last year by the New Zealand Mint (of course!), although that latter company has [...]

September, 2019

STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION (2019) by New Zealand Mint

By |2021-10-30T21:01:24+01:00September 27th, 2019|Categories: , |

2019 STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION by New Zealand Mint Another of the New Zealand Mint's many silver foil series featuring their numerous licenced media franchises, Star Trek Next Generation has itself appeared previously on a pretty neat Juan Ortiz penned 'poster' set, but the set we're looking at here is a sequel to the Star Trek Original Series character foils released a last year.Each of the five-gram, 150 x 70 mm [...]

Riker and Worf join Picard in Niue’s Star Trek Next Generation character foil set

By |2019-09-26T16:42:38+01:00September 26th, 2019|Categories: Banknote / Foil, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Riker and Worf join Picard in Niue's Star Trek Next Generation character foil set The second and third foils in the New Zealand Mints six-piece set of Star Trek: Next Generation character foils are now available. Following the debut of Captain Jean-Luc Picard just last month, Commander Riker and the Klingon Security Chief, Worf, are the subjects this time, with just Troi, Data and Geordi LaForge yet to come.At [...]

January, 2019

There’s pussies on the starboard bow, scrape em off Jim! Niue goes weird with Star Trek foil

By |2019-01-26T17:40:00+00:00January 26th, 2019|Categories: Banknote / Foil, News Nuggets, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

There's pussies on the starboard bow, scrape em off Jim! Niue goes weird with Star Trek foil We're not often surprised at new releases as most are variations on a theme, but eyebrows were definitely raised when this silver foil first put in an appearance. The New Zealand Mint have been putting out Star Trek foils at a fair pace, having already issued Original Series and Next Generation [...]

STAR TREK MOVIE POSTER PREMIUM FOILS (2018) by the New Zealand Mint

By |2021-10-30T21:29:36+01:00January 23rd, 2019|Categories: , , |

2018 STAR TREK MOVIE POSTER PREMIUM FOILS by the New Zealand Mint Quickly following on from their Star Wars Posters range of premium foils, the surprising addition of Star Trek to the mix was a welcome addition. Tracking who owns what licence these days has become increasingly difficult. Trek used to be the sole preserve of the Perth Mint, but then coins began to be issued by the Royal Canadian [...]

November, 2018

Star Trek III: The Search For Spock is the latest sci-fi movie to get the premium foil treatment

By |2018-11-18T10:33:57+00:00November 18th, 2018|Categories: Banknote / Foil, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Star Trek III: The Search For Spock is the latest sci-fi movie to get the premium foil treatment You couldn't accuse the New Zealand Mint of dabbling with silver foils as they certainly seem to have committed to the fledgling format. Their Premium Silver Foil range in particular is one that is a long way from a traditional coin, but for the subjects the mint has in its portfolio [...]

September, 2018

Star Trek Next Generation foils coming thick and fast with two more in the seven issue series now out

By |2018-09-16T22:06:30+01:00September 16th, 2018|Categories: News Nuggets, Banknote / Foil, Movies & TV, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Star Trek Next Generation foils coming thick and fast with two more in the seven issue series now out 2018 STAR TREK NEXT GEN FOIL SERIES In what has been a very rapid release schedule, the New Zealand Mint has issued the fifth and sixth foils in its Star Trek Next Generation series of seven. The first release, Encounter at Farpoint, only debuted in early August, so [...]

Juan Ortiz penned Star Trek Next Generation foil series sees releases 3 and 4

By |2018-09-06T22:00:41+01:00September 6th, 2018|Categories: News Nuggets, Banknote / Foil, Movies & TV, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Juan Ortiz penned Star Trek Next Generation foil series sees releases 3 and 4 2018 STAR TREK NEXT GEN FOIL SERIES The New Zealand Mints seven piece set of silver foils continues with a double release of two of the finest episodes in the series seven season history. The first is one of the most popular episodes of all- Best of Both Worlds. Telling the story of Captain Picards transformation [...]

August, 2018

Star Trek Next Gen foil series showcases the first great episode, The Measure of a Man

By |2018-08-22T13:09:51+01:00August 22nd, 2018|Categories: Banknote / Foil, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Star Trek Next Gen foil series showcases the first great episode, The Measure of a Man The second of Niue's Star Trek: Next Generation silver foils is out today and continues with the use of the art of Star Trek fan favourite, Juan Ortiz. Heavily stylised, almost Warhol-like in places, Ortiz manages to distill an episode down to its core elements and present them in a bold [...]

The art of Juan Ortiz adorns Niue’s latest series of Star Trek silver foils for the Next Generation

By |2018-08-05T15:25:11+01:00August 5th, 2018|Categories: Banknote / Foil, Movies & TV, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

The art of Juan Ortiz adorns Niue's latest series of Star Trek silver foils for the Next Generation Good or bad, depending on your love or hate of silver coin notes/foils, the choice of subjects on this new format has increased exponentially as we work our through 2018. The foremost champion of this market has been the New Zealand Mint. With this mints heavy involvement in the [...]

July, 2018

The iconic vessels of Star Treks Original Series warp onto Tuvalu’s latest silver coin

By |2018-07-03T23:31:39+01:00July 3rd, 2018|Categories: News Nuggets, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|

The iconic vessels of Star Treks Original Series warp onto Tuvalu's latest silver coin 2018 STAR TREK SHIPS Another release in the Perth Mints Star Trek range, this one harks back to the original sixties series and depicts three of its most iconic vessels. Struck in two ounces of fine silver, the coin is packaged in a replica Star Trek communicator. These are very cool, having been [...]

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