It's May 4th, or Star Wars Day as fans of the franchise have dubbed (May the 4th be with you, for those unaware of its origins), so like last year, we're getting a special Chibi coin to celebrate it. Last May 4th we got a special, two-ounce, gilded C3-PO coin, one of the rare two-ounce offerings, and up until [...]
A new Star Wars bullion joins the New Zealand Mint's copious range, and for this release we're back in their Faction Symbol series for the fourth time. This range features the symbols of the major groups in the Star Wars Universe, and follows the Mandalorian, Galactic Empire, and Rebel Alliance designs. Quite a simple series, it nevertheless evokes [...]
The New Zealand Mint continues its celebration of Warner Brothers Studios's 100th anniversary, with its second five-ounce silver coin showcasing iconic movies from the film producer's extensive catalogue. The first of them was a neat 'Singing in the Rain' coin, which exhibited a classic look, and the NZ Mint's customary high-quality presentation. This second coin, despite also weighing [...]
The New Zealand Mint expands its offerings in the pop-culture coin genre, and there's more to come It's been a while since we did a multi-coin look at the copious output emanating from the New Zealand Mint, although we have been covering quite a few in our Quicklooks of late. We know the whole pop-culture and [...]
The behemoth that is the New Zealand Mint's Chibi range continues with only the second 'Mega-Chibi' release to date. These are basically the same as the rest of the range, except bigger, tipping the scales at two-ounces, rather than one. Surprisingly, given the low-profile of the character of late, it's Aquaman, from the DC Movies subset. Like the [...]
WMF '23: MDM extend their Harry Potter range with another ambitious multi-layered Quidditch silver kilo coin Despite a relative lack of recent activity, and the lacklustre showing of the offshoot 'Fantastic Beast's' movie series, Harry Potter remains a giant of a franchise, with more activity for future releases in the works. It still remains a big franchise [...]
Chibi continues in 2023 with the addition of Marvel Comics to the range, and a new randomly inserted gilded variant Chibi has been quite the phenomenon for the New Zealand Mint. Despite only launching in June 2020, there are over 110 issues to date, and they continue to launch at the rate of 4-per-month, usually. We're [...]
Rapidly ramping up box-office numbers so great it looks likely to take the all-time number one position, James Cameron's Avatar sequel, 'The Way of Water' is currently wowing cinema audiences with its cutting-edge special effects. The original Avatar movie was quite unusual. It was a fantastic success in box-office terms, but left no lasting impression on popular culture, as [...]
Bullion round-up 13: Mint of Gdańsk enters the bullion market. Pobjoy, Germania, and the South African Mint expand choice. The thirteenth bullion coin round-up, and our first of 2023, has a fine selection, a mix of old favourites and new arrivals. The big surprise is the Mint of Gdańsk dipping its toes into the bullion waters [...]
Better late than never, as they say, the December Chibi releases are now in our extensive guide to the series, bringing it up to over 100 issues so far. As well as Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars, and Black Adam from the DC Comics movie, there were a couple of Disney Frozen coins - Elsa and Anna, No [...]
