We were pleasantly surprised recently when we saw the New Zealand Mints Valentine's themed Nightmare Before Christmas coin. Tim Burton's hugely inventive and unique film has been a perennial favourite in the movie world and the visual style is distinctive enough to transition to a coin with little problem. The mint has followed up the Valentines coin [...]
The Fool is the debut release in Niue's new Tarot Card inspired silver coin series Despite spending much of its time in the movie and TV franchise world, the New Zealand Mint does release a few unrelated series each year, often with unusual subjects. This time, they've focused on the mystical (and nonsensical) world of Tarot. [...]
The NZ Mint's Chibi tsunami continues apace with a new addition to the Harry Potter series, the seventh, and a whole new franchise to mine - Lord of the Rings. The big baddie of the Pottervers, Lord Voldemort, is the subject this time, as the mint rapidly works its way through the character lineup. We do note [...]
Smash hit Star Wars TV series 'The Mandalorian' joins the NZ Mint's expansive numismatic range The New Zealand Mint has made Star Wars about the most comprehensively covered media franchise in coin history, just in the last five or six years. Have they covered everything? Of course not, as the acquisition of the franchise by Disney [...]
Same Bat Time. Same Bat Channel. It's 1966 again and the New Zealand Mint is launching a new Batman-inspired series featuring the evolution of the Batmobile through his history. What better place to start than one of the most iconic vehicles in any genre, the Adam West Batmobile from the ultra-camp and quite mad television series.The usual simple [...]
We almost forgot this one, released on the same day as Luke Skywalker, but not available to buy until 01 February. Severus Snape is the sixth entrant in the Harry Potter Wizarding World subset and does a great job of channeling the sarcastic menace of the character as portrayed by the late, and very great, Alan Rickman. [...]
Here comes Chibi again, this time the sixth in the Star Wars subset, as opposed to the Harry Potter and DC Comics ranges. Luke Skywalker has been a long time coming, but fans of the hit science fiction franchise can now have their hero in big-headed silver form. Looks good, as they all do to be fair, [...]
A very cool set of four coins for the comic collector was released last year, featuring artwork from the Jim Lee series, Batman Hush. A well regarded story, it made for an attractive set. Following that up in 2021, the New Zealand Mint is launching Superman: Man of Steel. The format is the same, a 1 oz [...]
We don't normally bother with coins that are laser-focused on the gift market, which normally includes holidays (Christmas, Valentines etc), weddings and babies, for example, but sometimes we get to see something that effortlessly makes the jump to collectability. One such coin is this fantastic, esoteric issue from the New Zealand Mint. This mint is embedded deeper [...]
Holy investment opportunity, Batman!! The Dark Knight hits the bullion market with a new gold and silver coin With the big success of Star Wars and Disney bullion coins, the New Zealand Mint is now trying its hand at shoehorning its many Warner Brothers licences into the market as well. It's a good idea. The Perth [...]
