From Star Wars to DC Comics, the NZ Mint takes dimensional face coins to the dark world of the Caped Crusader The NZ Mint has had great success with its Star Wars Helmets range of dimensional silver coins and has now decided to take the concept into the DC Comics Universe. For those unaware, these are what [...]
US dealer APMEX has now launched the 13th of the NZ Mints Disney bullion series with a coin that apes the style of the Mickey & Minnie in love coin, but with Donald & Daisy Duck. One for the Disney fan and a good fit with the style of the earlier releases. Just the two formats are [...]
The Empire’s Death Star returns as a huge kilogram dimensional silver coin for Niue It's fair to say that in the realms of the media franchise coin, the New Zealand Mint's 'Star Wars' range is about as extensive as it gets. Most, however, have been standard format coins of one sort or another. A recent sojourn [...]
Very much at the niche end of the New Zealand Mints copious Star Wars coin output, 'Star Wars Ships' is a series of 1 oz gold issues that, like the title suggests, feature the various legendary vessels from the Star Wars franchise. By its very nature, coins for this movie behemoth would have more appeal at the lower [...]
Tom & Jerry, the masters of mayhem, are brought to life for their 80th anniversary by the Royal Dutch Mint Never mind Disney. If you want top quality cartoon shorts, there are plenty of better ones out there from studios like Hanna Barbera, and Warner Bros. One of the first and the most loved is centred [...]
The last Chibi coin of 2020 is now amongst us and is a departure from the norm, featuring a villain from the DC Comics Universe instead of the superheroes that have populated the first five spaces in this collection. If you're going to start with a big bad, pick the biggest one, and that would be the [...]
A blistering hit, we thought Chibi would be popular when we saw the prototypes back in Berlin in January, but never to this degree. Now being released almost on a weekly basis, these $99.00 USD, 1oz silver coins have really struck a chord with collectors and sell out very quickly.Case in point is this brilliant Boba Fett coin, [...]
The Snowman is back at the Royal Mint for the third successive year with a new design by Robin Shaw Returning for a third annual appearance, Raymond Briggs iconic seasonal tale, 'The Snowman' has become a refreshing holiday coin release in a market overwhelmingly populated by Santa designs. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but a little [...]
The New Zealand Mint's Disney behemoth continues to extend its tendrils into the bullion coin market with the second annual Christmas holiday issue. Sticking with the most iconic of Disney characters, Mickey Mouse, it's another festive themed design with Mickey holding a big candy cane, with a couple of snowflakes in the background field. The design is [...]
New Zealand Mint expands its popular culture range with Lord of the Rings and a silver foil map of Middle Earth It's been a much quieter year on the silver foil front than 2019 was, partly from Coroney, of course, but we think the flood of them was bound to ease off anyway. The main reason is [...]
