Always great to see a coin depicting prehistoric life and we've had some great ones over the last half decade or so. An attractive issue to debut this year was the New Zealand Mint's 'Dinosaurs' range, which launched back in February. This one featured the Tyrannosaurus Rex and was followed by the Triceratops a couple of months [...]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Giant Headed Coins. Chibi comes to Hogwarts After the hugely successful debut of the New Zealand Mint;s Chibi coins with the sell out Batman, the concept returns with a first dip into the world of Harry Potter. Choosing to kick off with the distinctive title character, it's a solid [...]
The New Zealand Mint's Star Wars bullion coin range continues apace with the first issue to reference the new 'The Mandalorian' television series. Called 'The Mandalorian Mythosaur' the coin depicts the official sigil of the bounty hunter clan. It's the first design in the series that isn't instantly recognisable as a Star Wars item, although fans will [...]
One of the better of the New Zealand Mint's many Star Wars ranges of coins and foils, the ultra high relief helmets are reproductions in silver of some of the epic movie franchises most iconic items. First to drop in 2019 was an excellent Darth Vader helmet. If you're going to launch a new series like this, then Vader's [...]
The second movie in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets premiered in 2002 and was based on the 1998 novel by J. K. Rowling. It went on to gross over $879m, beaten in 2002 only by The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. It tells the story of Potters second year at Hogwarts [...]
A phenomenon that has travelled far from its Japanese homeland, Chibi (ちび or チビ) is slang for short and is applied to various pop culture genres today. Chief amongst those are the small, chubby caricatures with their small bodies and over-sixed heads - also called super-deformed (SD). A popular style in anime and manga, and also with the Funko figures [...]
You have to go back six years for the first New Zealand Mint Disney coin. They chose the original Mickey Mouse short, Steamboat Willie, and it came in a full range of sizes up to a staggering kilo of gold. Now the subject is back for a reissue in amore limited form. There are very few changes to [...]
The latest in the New Zealand Mint's attractive 'Guards of the Empire' Star Wars themed coin series is upon us, and after looking at the various layers of cannon fodder that makes up the Empire's bulk, we get a look at the elite. The red armour clad Praetorian Guards, named after the bodyguards were the last line of defence for [...]
Launching in April, the New Zealand Mint issued the first Archangel in a new series of rectangular 1oz silver coins - Gabriel. The second is here now and features a depiction of the Archangel Michael from a stained-glass window in Hull Minster in England. A beautiful piece of art by Mary Hutchinson, Gabriel was also based on [...]
This isn't the first time the iconic Imperial battlestation, the Death Star, has appeared on a coin as part of the New Zealand Mint's extensive Star Wars range. In September 2018, the moon-sized instrument of destruction featured as the subject of a 2oz ultra-high relief silver coin, with a suitably healthy price tag. It's back as part of the mints [...]
