The New Zealand Mint continues its celebration of Warner Brothers Studios's 100th anniversary, with its second five-ounce silver coin showcasing iconic movies from the film producer's extensive catalogue. The first of them was a neat 'Singing in the Rain' coin, which exhibited a classic look, and the NZ Mint's customary high-quality presentation. This second coin, despite also weighing [...]
The New Zealand Mint expands its offerings in the pop-culture coin genre, and there's more to come It's been a while since we did a multi-coin look at the copious output emanating from the New Zealand Mint, although we have been covering quite a few in our Quicklooks of late. We know the whole pop-culture and [...]
Bullion round-up 16: Ships on the water, superheroes under it, bulls, leopards and the arcade classic Dig-Dug Welcome to our sixteenth bullion coin round-up since we started doing these, and the second in March. It's been a busy month for new issues, and the selection of designs and formats continues to impress. We'd hoped to [...]
The behemoth that is the New Zealand Mint's Chibi range continues with only the second 'Mega-Chibi' release to date. These are basically the same as the rest of the range, except bigger, tipping the scales at two-ounces, rather than one. Surprisingly, given the low-profile of the character of late, it's Aquaman, from the DC Movies subset. Like the [...]
Chibi continues in 2023 with the addition of Marvel Comics to the range, and a new randomly inserted gilded variant Chibi has been quite the phenomenon for the New Zealand Mint. Despite only launching in June 2020, there are over 110 issues to date, and they continue to launch at the rate of 4-per-month, usually. We're [...]
The New Zealand Mint has offered a comprehensive selection of movie poster and comic book cover coins over the last decade, in both traditional, and foil formats, but they're now adding that absolute behemoth of a franchise to their portfolio for the first time - Marvel Comics. Marvel's main competitor, DC Comics, has been a regular at the NZ [...]
The last of the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi, is now celebrating its 40th anniversary, and as it did with both 'A New Hope' and 'The Empire Strikes Back', the New Zealand Mint is reissuing its movie poster coin with the anniversary logo. These rectangular coins reproduce the original movie posters, and all nine of [...]
Better late than never, as they say, the December Chibi releases are now in our extensive guide to the series, bringing it up to over 100 issues so far. As well as Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars, and Black Adam from the DC Comics movie, there were a couple of Disney Frozen coins - Elsa and Anna, No [...]
It's nice and early in the new year to see the first in what will no doubt be a torrent of bullion designs from the New Zealand Mint, utilising their extensive media franchises. Disney is the first franchise to get a release, and it's one of their holiday/event issues. Mickey Mouse and Minnie are the perpetual couple in [...]
Want to guarantee a Star Wars coin sells out? Stick Grogu, Baby Yoda as it's erroneously known, on the face. The little, supporting CGI creature was the smash-hit of the massively popular The Mandalorian, Star Wars TV series. This time he's depicted eating a possibly not quite dead, squid-like soup in a comical scene, sure to please fans [...]
