Popeye joins the shaped coin market, along with new Kung Fu Panda, Pennywise, and Ghostbusters releases With this week's release of LPM's new Popeye coin, we thought we'd round-up a few other pop-culture themed, shaped character coins for your perusal. There are quite a few producers getting in on the act these days, and their popularity seems [...]
It was only a couple of weeks ago that we looked at the new Beavis and Butt-head coins from Australian producer, The Coin Company, and obviously, we loved them. Issued in celebration of the hit animations 30th anniversary, they hit the target perfectly, in our view. We made a reference to the best character in it, Beavis as Cornholio, [...]
" I am the Great Cornholio, I need T.P. for my bunghole". Beavis & Butthead Do Numismatics... South Park, Family Guy, Archer, and Rick & Morty, are all proof it isn't just kids that can have some fun with animated TV shows. Crude, crass, and often very cutting with current affairs, and societal issues, they're brilliantly [...]
The world of film, music, and television is as popular on coins as ever. Here's the latest round-up of new releases Our latest regular look at popular culture coins, a seemingly endless task in the current market, encompasses all the usual suspects - Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc. - as well as a rarer entrant into the [...]
A new addition to the increasingly popular shaped coin market is, rather unsurprisingly, sporting a pop-culture design. Continuing the 40th anniversary celebrations of Steven Spielberg's massive hit, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Australian producer The Coin Company, has today released a two-ounce coloured coin, featuring the head of the title character. Unlike many of these coins, this one seems [...]
What's new in the world of television, film and popular culture coins? A July round-up of the latest releases Another round-up of popular culture coins, the usual names are in attendance, both producers, and licences. The NZ Mint has added to its Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Chibi franchises, while adding the awesome Rick [...]
It's movie and TV coin time with our early November round-up of the new releases Our fifth round-up of movie and TV coins has a couple of surprises, but is generally more of the same. In general, it's more Chibi, more shaped coins, and more 007, so our decision to round these coins up rather than [...]
Shrek is one of the latest movie franchises to make its mark on the coin world, There are currently two producers issuing coins for it, one of which is APMEX with its bullion range, and the other The Coin Company in Australia. The latter have specialised in shaped coins and the new one here is the fourth [...]
Movie and TV coins for mid October - Potter, Batman, 007, Green Lantern, and a good doggie Regular media licenced coin roundup number four, we'll continue to do these as while they're quite time-consuming to put together, they are quicker than individual articles would be. Besides, the genre as a whole is quite repetitive, so it [...]
Movie, TV and Popular Culture coin roundup for early September - Batman, Monsters Inc, and head bangers This is our third, roughly fortnightly round-up of coins in the popular culture genre. This has turned out to be an excellent way to corral the ever-increasing number of such coins, which are popular, so worthy of coverage, but time [...]
