Chibi continues its relentless pursuit of market domination with a pair of new issues for two of the biggest franchises that make up the broad range. The first is the 16th in the DC Comics subset, and features one of Batman's most popular adversaries, The Penguin, complete with monocle and dapper suit. The second is from [...]
"Nooo, Mr Bond, I expect you to buy!". The Royal Mint celebrates six decades of 007 with Little Nellie. Last year saw the 60th anniversary of the first of the serious James Bond movies, back in 1962 when Dr. No debuted to widespread critical acclaim, creating legions of fans that persist to this day. The [...]
Another new Star Wars series from the New Zealand Mint has debuted, this time taking the shaped, antique-finished format from the ship-shaped series, the latest of which is Bo-Katan's Gauntlet Starfighter, and applying it to an emblem. The coin features the Mandalorian Mythosaur, popularised in the hit TV show, and likely to become a more important thing moving [...]
Pik Coins returns to the true crime genre with one of the world's most notorious criminals - Pablo Escobar True crime is a huge genre in popular culture, with a wide swathe of interest in film, television, magazines, books and novels, amongst other things. Pik Coins have embraced the subject, releasing a succession of silver issues [...]
The animated classic, The Nightmare Before Christmas', released in 1993, and directed by Tim Burton, has already received some attention in numismatic circles, notably by the New Zealand Mint. Those coins garnered some impressive appreciation on the aftermarket, so clearly, the film has its fans.Fast-forward to October 2023, and the mint is back with a new, and more [...]
The Gene Wilder classic movie, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, is back on coins, with 50 golden tickets to find Now considered one of the great film classics, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which premiered in 1971, was based on the children's book by Roald Dahl, first published just seven years previously. Indeed, the [...]
The Robert Pattison headlined The Batman movie gets a three-ounce silver coin bar replete with high relief With a premiere in early 2022, the Matt Reeves helmed, Robert Pattinson starred superhero film, The Batman, launched to excellent reviews, quite something in an industry suffering from superhero fatigue. The film eschewed the usual mass of CGI, and [...]
The New Zealand Mint's 'trading coin' concept makes the jump from Star Wars to Marvel, with 51 new coins Just a couple of months ago, we reported on a new concept issued by the New Zealand Mint. Called Mint Trading Coins, they basically take the age-old swapping idea from baseball and bubblegum cards, and applies [...]
Yesterday saw the release of one of the considerably rarer, two-ounce silver Chibi coins, that the mint has dubbed Mega-Chibi. Despite the standard Chibi range now numbering over 130 releases, the number of the bigger variants is still in single figures. Thanos is the second in the Marvel subseries, following the Incredible Hulk coin, and depicts the big [...]
It was a decade ago that the hit television series Peaky Blinders had its debut, and PiK Coins celebrates in silver A wonderful television series, Peaky Blinders told the story of a criminal gang fighting for control of the streets of early 20th century Birmingham. Headlined by a brilliant Cillian Murphy, and with an outstanding [...]
