We were pleasantly surprised recently when we saw the New Zealand Mints Valentine's themed Nightmare Before Christmas coin. Tim Burton's hugely inventive and unique film has been a perennial favourite in the movie world and the visual style is distinctive enough to transition to a coin with little problem. The mint has followed up the Valentines coin [...]
The NZ Mint's Chibi tsunami continues apace with a new addition to the Harry Potter series, the seventh, and a whole new franchise to mine - Lord of the Rings. The big baddie of the Pottervers, Lord Voldemort, is the subject this time, as the mint rapidly works its way through the character lineup. We do note [...]
Smash hit Star Wars TV series 'The Mandalorian' joins the NZ Mint's expansive numismatic range The New Zealand Mint has made Star Wars about the most comprehensively covered media franchise in coin history, just in the last five or six years. Have they covered everything? Of course not, as the acquisition of the franchise by Disney [...]
Same Bat Time. Same Bat Channel. It's 1966 again and the New Zealand Mint is launching a new Batman-inspired series featuring the evolution of the Batmobile through his history. What better place to start than one of the most iconic vehicles in any genre, the Adam West Batmobile from the ultra-camp and quite mad television series.The usual simple [...]
We almost forgot this one, released on the same day as Luke Skywalker, but not available to buy until 01 February. Severus Snape is the sixth entrant in the Harry Potter Wizarding World subset and does a great job of channeling the sarcastic menace of the character as portrayed by the late, and very great, Alan Rickman. [...]
Here comes Chibi again, this time the sixth in the Star Wars subset, as opposed to the Harry Potter and DC Comics ranges. Luke Skywalker has been a long time coming, but fans of the hit science fiction franchise can now have their hero in big-headed silver form. Looks good, as they all do to be fair, [...]
A very cool set of four coins for the comic collector was released last year, featuring artwork from the Jim Lee series, Batman Hush. A well regarded story, it made for an attractive set. Following that up in 2021, the New Zealand Mint is launching Superman: Man of Steel. The format is the same, a 1 oz [...]
Crown Mint continues their Marvel Icon dimensional silver coin series with a striking Black Panther It isn't just the NZ Mint producing dimensional masks of movie franchise characters, with the Crown Mint having issued their Marvel icons series since 2019. Following their Iron Man and Spiderman releases, they've now added Black Panther to the range, with [...]
We don't normally bother with coins that are laser-focused on the gift market, which normally includes holidays (Christmas, Valentines etc), weddings and babies, for example, but sometimes we get to see something that effortlessly makes the jump to collectability. One such coin is this fantastic, esoteric issue from the New Zealand Mint. This mint is embedded deeper [...]
Chibi is back bright and early in 2021 with the launch of the 7th in the DC Comics sub-series, Harley Quinn. Coming to fame as The Joker's main love, Harley Quinn is now one of the most popular DC characters of them all, with both a hit animated series, and the Margot Robbie headlined movie appearances. She [...]
