We cover quite a bit of the New Zealand Mint’s copious output here, with their many popular culture franchises drawing in new collectors from the massive movie memorabilia market, but go back eight years, and their line-up was quite different. There were nature, literature, and history coins galore, but apart from the occasional series, like the recent 'Dinosaurs', [...]
The New Zealand Mint's impressive silver miniature range expands with a second Darth Vader statue It's been a while since we saw a new miniature from the New Zealand Mint, but here we are with a second Darth Vader statue. The mint has quite a wide variety of these, spread mainly across its DC Comics, Disney, [...]
Today sees the debut of the second issue in the New Zealand Mint's new 'Game of Thrones' range. The range kicked off last month with a coloured medallion carrying the banner of House Targaryen, the family soon to star in their own television show 'House of the Dragon. For the second release, we have a wholly more unusual [...]
The New Zealand Mint expands offering in most of its licenced coin franchises, including the debut of Game of Thrones After our catch-up of Mint of Poland releases yesterday, we're doing the same for another popular mint whose output exceeds our ability to keep up with otherwise. Popular culture coins have a huge collector market of [...]
Another quick heads-up on a Chibi coin that may sell quickly, the first in the Star Trek: Next Generation subset has just debuted, and features one of the most beloved and iconic characters in the whole franchise - Captain Jean-Luc Picard. With the character enjoying a mini-renaissance on streaming television at the moment, it's likely it'll be one of [...]
With the New Zealand Mint seemingly having given up on anything that wasn't a pop-culture franchised coin release, we were pleased to see them finally release a new series with a more general them. They've issued from fine ones over the years, including a decent dinosaur series not too long ago, but we're back into human history for their [...]
As it approaches its 80th issue, the NZ Mint's Chibi gets a special edition and it's for Star Wars May 4th Be With You Day After almost 80 issues, it's become increasingly difficult to spice up a Chibi coin article for something new, so they've joined our Quicklooks and Film Round-up articles for coverage, but the [...]
As you know, we've started to confine our coverage of new Chibi coins to our TV/Film round-up articles, and to the huge Coin Series Profile we have, but we like to give a heads-up when a new subset drops, and today is the day for that. As usual, this pair of coins is the second to launch this month, [...]
The NZ Mint dominates our latest TV/Film coin round-up with a Star Wars Battle Scenes series, Lord of the Rings, and Pinocchio Our second round-up of film and television themed coins this month, as the flood of issues continues unabated. The New Zealand Mint is here in numbers, of course, along with APMEX and the Crown [...]
Our early April round-up of the latest film/TV coins is here. Star Wars, Marvel, DC Comics, and Star Trek Time for another of our attempts to stay on top of the ongoing tsunami of TV and film themed coin releases, and also to catch up with the prolific New Zealand Mint, who almost exclusively stick to this [...]
