One of the New Zealand Mint's superb 'Premium Foil' series, DC Comic Covers reproduces some of the iconic cover artwork from the last 80 years of what is now known today as DC. Some of the most popular superheroes around have been birthed in this period, and with the genre now more popular than ever, although ironically [...]
We love a good dinosaur coin as much as any coin collector, so it was great news to discover the New Zealand Mint was adding their own effort to the mix. The Tyrannosaurus Rex debuted a couple of months ago, and now it's the turn of the behemoth traditionally portrayed in life or death combat with it - [...]
Easily our favourite of the New Zealand Mint's Star Wars coins being released in 2020, 'Guards of the Empire' offers a look at the cannon fodder warriors that fight on a daily basis to maintain the Galactic Empire. We've already seen the iconic Stormtrooper and the earlier Clone Trooper, but now its the turn of the black clad [...]
Videogames have grown from the weird little hobby of the far-sighted few, to a mainstream juggernaut that drawfs the movie and music industries. It's easy to understand why. Other forms of entertainment generally involve soaking up someone elses vision, but gaming allows you to control the narrative personally, to a quite extraordinary degree in some modern titles.The history of videogames [...]
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back hits four decades in age. NZ Mint issues a range of coins and foils. For the fans, The Empire Strikes Back is widely considered the best of the Star Wars movies, for non-fans, one of the only movies in the franchise that can stand against some of the [...]
The nine movie Star Wars Skywalker Saga wraps up with the last silver poster coin from Niue Three years after the series started, the New Zealand Mint's Star Wars Movie Poster coin series wraps up its look at the nine-film saga telling the tale of the Skywalker family. Each of these one-ounce rectangular coins [...]
New Zealand Mint takes a rare break from the media world with Gabriel, their first Archangel silver coin Religion is a perennial subject in the numismatic world and has been since coins first disappeared down the back of Babylonian sofas many millennia ago. However, it isn't a subject we often see from the Antipodean [...]
Jim Lee's brilliant Batman story, 'Hush' inspires Niue's latest DC comic series silver coins When you take one of the most iconic superhero characters of all time and give him to one of the best comic artists of the modern age, you get a story like Batman: Hush. Originally published over 12 issues of [...]
Disney bullion back for the second time in 2020 with Mickey and Pluto in silver and gold The New Zealand Mint's ongoing run of Disney-themed bullion coins continues with a second release in 2020 already. Obviously these things are pretty popular, even though the mintage is far smaller than the original issues. [...]
Guards of the Empire shows off the ubiquity of the Clone Trooper army for its second issue To say there are a few Star Wars coins on release over the last few years would be an understatement, so we don't doubt that the New Zealand Mint is finding it more difficult to come up [...]
