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May, 2023

The Perth Mint goes heavy on the crime fighting in May with The Phantom, and James Bond featuring

By |2023-05-16T14:45:22+01:00May 16th, 2023|Categories: Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Perth Mint, Tuvalu|

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 to take on the role. A new Phantom coin is a rare treat for fans [...]

January, 2023

Chibi coins for December and the new NZ Mint program (2022 New Zealand Mint)

By |2023-01-11T00:07:18+00:00January 10th, 2023|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

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 change to the style, or the options, so regular collectors will know what to expect. [...]

MARVEL COMICS: A guide to the Marvel World on silver and gold coins

By |2024-04-09T12:52:13+01:00January 9th, 2023|Categories: |

MARVEL COMICS: A guide to the Marvel World on coins With the popular culture world driving new collectors into our hobby, it's fair to say the volume of new issues has grown exponentially since the first of the modern wave dropped in 2013. The superhero genre was always going to be part of that, especially since the explosive growth of the two major cinematic universes The biggest of them, indeed [...]

November, 2022

DC COMICS: A guide to the DC Universe on silver and gold coins

By |2023-11-20T20:12:58+00:00November 27th, 2022|Categories: |

DC COMICS: A guide to the DC Universe on silver and gold coins With the popular culture world driving new collectors into our hobby, it’s fair to say the volume of new issues has grown exponentially since the first of the modern wave dropped in 2013. The superhero genre was always going to be part of that, especially since the explosive growth of the two major cinematic universes One [...]

Catching up with the New Zealand Mint’s popular culture coin releases from October

By |2022-11-02T21:55:02+00:00November 2nd, 2022|Categories: Coloured, Movies & TV, Gold, Medallion, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

Catching up with the New Zealand Mint's popular culture coin releases from October An overdue look at the New Zealand Mint's copious popular-culture output is what we have here, and it's another good mix of the many franchises they have in their repertoire. Including such giants as Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Harry Potter, movie fans will likely find something that catches their eye,There are many coloured coins, and [...]

August, 2022

The Witcher: Time of Contempt continues the numismatic journey through Andrzej Sapkowski’s fantasy classic

By |2022-08-31T15:37:21+01:00August 31st, 2022|Categories: Art & Literature, Inserts, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|

The Witcher: Time of Contempt continues the numismatic journey through Andrzej Sapkowski's fantasy classic The much loved world of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski 'The Witcher' series of fantasy novels has been successfully making the transition to the numismatic world since 2019. Working their way through the two short story collections, and six main novels chronologically, Mint of Gdańsk has been issuing silver coins in both two-ounce, and one-kilo formats, offering unique designs, [...]

April, 2022

Our early April round-up of the latest film/TV coins is here. Star Wars, Marvel, DC Comics, and Star Trek

By |2022-04-05T22:09:29+01:00April 5th, 2022|Categories: Bullion, Film/TV roundup, Coloured, Movies & TV, Gold, Silver, Crown Mint, NZ Mint|

Our early April round-up of the latest film/TV coins is here. Star Wars, Marvel, DC Comics, and Star Trek Time for another of our attempts to stay on top of the ongoing tsunami of TV and film themed coin releases, and also to catch up with the prolific New Zealand Mint, who almost exclusively stick to this genre now. A tiring job, along with the companion bullion round-ups we do, but the [...]

February, 2022

A big and varied selection of the latest gold and silver bullion coins in our February 2022 roundup of new releases

By |2022-04-01T14:48:35+01:00February 22nd, 2022|Categories: APMEX, Bullion roundup, Bullion, Bullion Round, Gold, Australia, Silver, Chad, East India Company, Niue Island, NZ Mint, Royal Australian Mint|

A big and varied selection of the latest gold and silver bullion coins in our February 2022 roundup of new releases The bullion coins continue to come out, so it's time for another of our lightweight round-ups of the new releases. There are a few missing, like the new Wedge-tailed Eagle from the Perth Mint, the KOMSCO stuff, and the new Fiji Dogs, but we'll cover them separately. These articles [...]

January, 2022

Blood of Elves, the third book in The Witcher saga, hits the numismatic world with a silver coin pair

By |2022-01-20T15:31:05+00:00January 20th, 2022|Categories: Art & Literature, Inserts, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|

Blood of Elves, the third book in The Witcher saga, hits the numismatic world with a silver coin pair Working their way through the literary works of Polish fantasy author, Andrzej Sapkowski, the Mint of Gdańsk has now debuted their third pair of coins, quite obviously for the third book of the eight published in the Witcher saga, 'The Blood of Elves'. As before, there are two silver coins in the range, [...]

November, 2021

It’s movie and TV coin time with our early November round-up of the new releases

By |2022-04-01T14:50:55+01:00November 9th, 2021|Categories: Banknote / Foil, Film/TV roundup, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint, Perth Mint, Tuvalu, The Coin Company|

It's movie and TV coin time with our early November round-up of the new releases Our fifth round-up of movie and TV coins has a couple of surprises, but is generally more of the same. In general, it's more Chibi, more shaped coins, and more 007, so our decision to round these coins up rather than spend time better spent elsewhere on them is looking more and more sensible. The genre [...]

October, 2021

Movie and TV coins for mid October – Potter, Batman, 007, Green Lantern, and a good doggie

By |2021-10-15T17:16:20+01:00October 15th, 2021|Categories: Banknote / Foil, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint, Perth Mint, Tuvalu, The Coin Company|

Movie and TV coins for mid October - Potter, Batman, 007, Green Lantern, and a good doggie Regular media licenced coin roundup number four, we'll continue to do these as while they're quite time-consuming to put together, they are quicker than individual articles would be. Besides, the genre as a whole is quite repetitive, so it frees up time to focus on more original releases. We do feel the need to [...]

July, 2021

A round up of the latest in movie and television coins – Minions, Back to the Future, DC Comics, & more

By |2021-08-16T00:52:31+01:00July 9th, 2021|Categories: Banknote / Foil, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, The Coin Company|

A round up of the latest in movie and television coins - Minions, Back to the Future, DC Comics, & more A bit late with this onje today, we thought a quick round-up of the three or four new movie coins wouldn't take too long to get together, but the list continued to grow to eight before we drew it to a close. Anyway, here it is and there's a [...]

April, 2021

SUPERGIRL & NEWT SCAMANDER CHIBI (2021 NZ Mint)

By |2021-04-26T23:35:47+01:00April 26th, 2021|Categories: Quicklooks, Coloured, Movies & TV, Silver, Niue Island, NZ Mint|

The second and last pair of April Chibi coins have now debuted, and we get an addition to the most populous sub-series (DC Comics) and a whole new sub-series. We've expressed some concern at the pace of release in the past, but it seems the mint is diversifying the selection so that collectors can just collect the sub-series that interests them the most. A wise decision. The DC Comics addition is Supergirl. [...]

January, 2021

DC COVERS: ACTION COMICS #7 (2021 NZ Mint)

By |2021-01-08T12:39:11+00:00January 8th, 2021|Categories: Quicklooks, Art & Literature, Banknote / Foil, Silver, NZ Mint|

The third time Action Comics has appeared in this series, issue #7 is a strange choice. A very sought after issue because of its rarity, it continues the style of the time in having a mix of small stories inside. in this case there are seven overall, with six being essentially throwaway stories. The headliner is Superman and this is the second time the character had ever appeared on a comic cover. [...]

November, 2020

The second pair of Mint of Gdansk’s ‘The Witcher’ silver coins debut with scenes from ‘Sword of Destiny’

By |2020-11-18T12:11:11+00:00November 18th, 2020|Categories: Art & Literature, Gilded, Silver, Mint of Poland, Niue Island|

The second pair of Mint of Gdansk's 'The Witcher' silver coins debut with scenes from 'Sword of Destiny' Continuing to make a pleasant change from the many silver coins featuring the ancient world, the Mint of Gdansk's 'The Witcher' series continues its eight-issue jaunt through the hugely popular world created by Polish author, Andrzej Sapkowski. Each of the eight issues is comprised of a pair of coins, encompassing a regular 2 [...]

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