Agoro continues to broaden its range of film and television coins and expand its most popular ranges. Here's some of the new issues. Kings of the pop-culture franchise coin, Agoro, the name for the collectible coin part of the New Zealand Mint, continue to increase their portfolio of issues across multiple licences, and even add new [...]
MDM dips into its wide pop-culture range with Transformers coins, and a Harry Potter high-relief silver behemoth Pop-culture coins remain extremely popular, attracting a wide variety of franchises, and coming to fruition in an equally wide variety of styles. It's often a testing ground for new design types, and innovation abounds, if not always successfully. [...]
It's another stonking week for new coin issues, showcasing imagination and minting tech (Week 44, 2024) With the Beijing International Coin Exposition kicking off today, we've seen the usual increased activity in its run-up, and some superb new issues as a result. Quite a few of the issues in our Week 44 collection are hot off the [...]
Our latest weekly look at some of the best new coin issues from different producers (Week 43, 2024) It's our fourth weekly look at some new coins, and some slightly older ones we haven't covered to date, and yet again, the market hasn't disappointed. It's another varied selection, covering many wildly different themes, and in wildly [...]
Agoro to auction a one-off, life-size cast silver reproduction inspired by The Dark Knight's cowl to aid Save The Children We do like something unique here at AgAuNEWS, and Agoro certainly haven't disappointed with their latest creation. Long known for their extensive range of popular culture releases, from such franchises as Star Wars, Harry Potter and Marvel [...]
Sherlock Holmes ‘A Study in Scarlet’ reveals itself on a new pair of silver coins from Mint of Gdansk A literary legend, British author Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, has captured the imagination of readers since he first appeared in 1887. Over the next four decades, a total of 4 novels, and 56 short [...]
The third in the Agoro’s ‘Star Trek Vehicles’ range of one-ounce silver coins is out now, and after the original Starship Enterprise, and Deep Space 9, we're seeing possibly the most popular vessel in all of Star Trek canon, the USS Enterprise D. This ship debuted in the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation back [...]
Agoro continues the trading coin concept with Harry Potters 'Wizarding World' taking up the reins after Star Wars, Marvel and DC The New Zealand Mint, now called Agoro, debuted their .mint Trading Coins concept with Star Wars back in August 2023, with a 51-coin Star Wars release. The concept is simple enough, taking the age-old [...]
As we reported just yesterday, the New Zealand Mint has rebranded their collectible coin division as Agoro, and the first new issue to take advantage of that is in what we'd argue has been their flagship series for a decade - Star Wars. We've often been a little critical of the mint's poster/comic cover ranges for their [...]
Star Trek's iconic NCC 1701 USS Enterprise is reproduced as a silver coin from Samoa by MDM Wholesale Seemingly appearing every couple of years, the ultra-iconic USS Enterprise (NCC 1701) appears as a shaped coin, with varying degrees of success. The first attempt was by the Royal Canadian Mint, who released a ten-ounce depiction that [...]
