Major League Baseball comes to Agoro with a new coloured silver logo coin The oldest major professional sports league in the world, Major League Baseball is one of the four big leagues in US sport, along with the NFL (football), NHL (ice hockey), and the NBA (Basketball). It's made up of 30 teams (1 in [...]
The third in the Agoro’s ‘Star Trek Vehicles’ range of one-ounce silver coins is out now, and after the original Starship Enterprise, and Deep Space 9, we're seeing possibly the most popular vessel in all of Star Trek canon, the USS Enterprise D. This ship debuted in the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation back [...]
Agoro continues the trading coin concept with Harry Potters 'Wizarding World' taking up the reins after Star Wars, Marvel and DC The New Zealand Mint, now called Agoro, debuted their .mint Trading Coins concept with Star Wars back in August 2023, with a 51-coin Star Wars release. The concept is simple enough, taking the age-old [...]
As we reported just yesterday, the New Zealand Mint has rebranded their collectible coin division as Agoro, and the first new issue to take advantage of that is in what we'd argue has been their flagship series for a decade - Star Wars. We've often been a little critical of the mint's poster/comic cover ranges for their [...]
Launching today is the second in the New Zealand Mint's 'Star Trek Vehicles' range of one-ounce silver coins. The obvious stand-out here is the coin's unusual shape, almost like a sci-fi datachip, for example. The rest of the spec is quite standard, however, being a proof strike with colour on the reverse face. The first coin featured [...]
Despite a lack of new movies in recent years, the Harry Potter juggernaut continues on, with a new HBO Max reboot due in 2026, and new coins appearing regularly. Our giant Thematic Guide to Harry Potter coins is one of our biggest, and continues to grow, with several producers still releasing a wide range of very varied [...]
Another new series of Harry Potter coins has joined the New Zealand Mint's copious range, and it's in their popular one-ounce rectangular format. Joining the film posters, and the Magical Creatures, this series is titled 'Patronus'. Apparently, a Patronus is a magical guardian that a wizard can summon to ward off Dementors. Each coin will depict the character, [...]
Pop-culture coins remain as popular as ever in numismatic circles. Here's a look at a small mix of recent issues from different mints. It's been a while since we did one of our pop-culture coin round-ups, mainly because we try to give things a break now and then for the sake of variety, and also because [...]
A giant of the literary and film worlds, irrespective of genre, J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ sequence has topped bestseller lists around the world for decades, They made the move to the big screen in 2003, with an epic trilogy helmed by Peter Jackson, which amassed 17 Oscars (including a staggeringly 11 out of 11 [...]
The New Zealand Mint expands its pop-culture ranges, and ventures outside that genre with cowboys and tarot It's been a while since we did a good round-up of the New Zealand Mints coins, so here's a long overdue catch-up on a more varied selection than they've had of late, encompassing some more ambitious pop-culture coins, [...]
