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 with a character design featuring the ‘star’ of the movie, Jack Skellington.

A rectangular, 1oz 0.999 silver coin with an antique finish, it holds a coloured image of Jack at its centre, with a border framing it to look like a painting. There’s lots of custom patterns and headstones in that space, feeding the narrative. Packaging is the usual book-style box, which we’re huge fans off, but with a clear window on the cover. Mintage is set at 3,000 pieces.

A neat release that takes aim at Burton fans and pretty much hits the target. Available now for $95.00 USD

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