With Star Wars now appearing at the Royal Mint as well, it's clear the franchise remains as popular as ever in the collectible coin market, despite its decline amongst moviegoers. It's hardly surprising, given the Star Wars Universe has been quite active for around 45 years now, and continues to be so, especially in television. Possibly the most [...]
Cult classic, The Matrix, plugs into gold for the first time with Neo being The One on two collectible coins The Matrix movies, a groundbreaking science fiction trilogy created by the Wachowski siblings, are some of the very best in science-fiction movie-making, especially the ground-breaking original. Set in a dystopian future, the series explores a complex [...]
Star Wars comes to the home of the Empire! The Royal Mint debuts the famous droids on three coins (UPDATED) In what is very surprising news, the Royal Mint here in the UK is debuting the first in a new range of Star Wars coins. The franchise has a long association with the UK, with the original [...]
The New Zealand Mint has done a sterling job of marking the 100th anniversary of one of the giants of Hollywood - Warner Brothers. They've done so by concentrating on the studio's output of iconic movies and television, from the earliest days, to the latest. They aren't alone in celebrating, however, and surprisingly, it's the Royal Dutch Mint [...]
Who doesn't love Looney Tunes? Widely considered the best classic animated universe ever produced, and in my view, leagues above Disney's saccharin nonsense, the pantheon of characters is just completely unique. One of the favourites has got to be the brilliant Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons. Documenting the one-sided battle of wits between a hapless coyote and [...]
The New Zealand Mint's expansive Star Wars range swells with the addition of another varied selection of silver coins We've been a bit quieter on the New Zealand Mint's many franchised media coins of late, choosing to take a break from trying to cover everything in favour of mixing up our article choice a little, but [...]
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, [...]
Bullion round-up 17: The Caribbean, Australia, Ancient Egypt, and the planet Krypton all feature on new coins Time for our seventeenth bullion coin round-up, and yet again, I completely underestimated the volume of new releases, and the time taken to collate it all. We were hoping to publish this yesterday, but, despite already covering a few [...]
Designed by Miroslav Schovanec, this 18 gram, 34 mm, 0.900 silver coin is issued to mark a centenary since Czechoslovak Radio started broadcasting on 18 May 1923. The Slovak Radio Building takes pride of place on the reverse, above which is a transmitter tower sending forth radio waves. Behind the waves is an outline map of Czechoslovakia. Impressively, [...]
The Perth Mint goes heavy on the crime fighting in May with The Phantom, and James Bond featuring May sees the Perth Mint lean heavily into its various pop-culture franchises, with its long-running James Bond range getting a boost with a new mini character coin, alongside additions to the classic 'Legacy' series, showcasing the various actors [...]
