New Zealand Mint expands its popular culture range with Lord of the Rings and a silver foil map of Middle Earth It's been a much quieter year on the silver foil front than 2019 was, partly from Coroney, of course, but we think the flood of them was bound to ease off anyway. The main reason is [...]
Darth Vader, Chewbacca and R2-D2 now have the Imperial Stormtrooper joing them in Chibi-land. This is a great release that suits the concept well and will no doubt be a rapid seller. A one-ounce coin with a 2,000 mintage and a $95.00 USD pricetag, it comes beautifully presented and in a custom capsule. Read more at out [...]
Reproducing some stained-glass windows created by Mary Hutchinson in 1920 for Britain's Hull Minster, the New Zealand Mints 'Archangels' series has now concluded with the release of the fourth and last coin. We've already had Gabriel, Michael and Raphael, and it falls to Uriel to round it all out.Each of these one-ounce silver coins of 36 x 53 [...]
Back in Black. Not AC/DC, but Darth Vader, his dimensional coin returning in coloured form Dropping last August as an offshoot of the New Zealand Mint's high-relief range of Star Wars coins, Darth Vaders ultra-iconic helmet was an instant hit which went on to spawn similar Boba Fett and Stormtrooper releases. These are dimensional coins, [...]
On we go with our journey through the New Zealand Mint's land of chibi, with the debut today of the third Star Wars Chibi coin, and the tenth overall in the the three series range. Probably the most popular of the three (the others are DC Comics and Harry Potter), we put that down to the iconic and [...]
Back for our weekly dive into chibi-land, this time it is the turn of DC Comics legend, Green Lantern to do the honours. A terrific little coin, complete with emerald ring, it will join Batman, Wonder Woman and The Flash in the range to date, although more are coming. A 2,000 mintage and 1oz fine silver weight [...]
After a weeks break, the New Zealand Mint's Chibi coin tsunami continues apace. This weeks issue is the eighth overall, and the third to take a dip into J.K. Rowling's inventive 'Harry Potterverse'. We get the impression that the DC Comics and Star Wars Chibi series are a bit more popular, probably because the Potter characters are [...]
The New Zealand Mint's journey through the ever-popular world of prehistoric life continues with the release of their fourth 'Dinosaurs' coin. Following Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops and a Pterodactyl (despite it not being a dinosaur...), is Stegosaurus. The mint has a knack of picking the most well known and popular species and there are plenty of others left unpicked, [...]
Our weekly dive into the New Zealand Mints super rapid release schedule of Chibi coins in the run up to Christmas, continues. This week it's the turn of Star Wars to get its second issue. Darth Vader kicked it off and Chewbacca now carries the torch for the tarnished movie franchise.It's another cool design, clearly aimed at a [...]
The New Zealand Mint's latest Chibi coin is here, and with another ten due to drop before the end of 2020, it's a place we'll obviously visiting pretty often (we like these!). Based on the Japanese big-headed 'Super-deformed; cultural style, they reinterprete characters from three of the mints big franchises - DC Comics, Harry Potter, and Star [...]
