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Chibi time again and these two are the second and last pair for September. This time around it's the second in the Disney Princesses sub-set, 'Snow White', and the second in the Street Fighter sub-set, Ken Masters. There as neat as ever and you'll either love them or hate them. There've been over 50 of these launched to date, in not much more than a year, so anything I write you'll have [...]
Updates, tweaks, and what's coming up Hi again. A bit of a quieter day today while we do some back-end tidying up, so apologies for that, but we've done quite a few bits of tweaking and updates to profiles as well. I like to keep you up to date in case you missed something, and you thought I spent all day in a pub downing lager and curry [...]
Movie, TV and Popular Culture coin roundup for early September - Batman, Monsters Inc, and head bangers This is our third, roughly fortnightly round-up of coins in the popular culture genre. This has turned out to be an excellent way to corral the ever-increasing number of such coins, which are popular, so worthy of coverage, but time consuming for a one-man band like AgAuNEWS. We do still run Quicklooks on some stuff, [...]
The second pair of Chibi for July launches today and we see the continuation of the Lord of the Rings subset with a fifth release, and the first in a whole new subset. Gollum is the neat looking character from the Tolkien behemoth and may well turn out to be the most popular of them to date. The all-new coin is one that dips into the videogame world, joining Halo, and features [...]
2020+ CHIBI COLLECTION by the New Zealand Mint A phenomenon that has travelled far from its Japanese homeland, Chibi (ちび or チビ) is slang for 'short' and is applied to various pop culture genres today. Chief amongst those are the small, chubby caricatures with their tiny bodies and over-sized heads – also called super-deformed (SD). A popular style in anime and manga, and also with the Funko figures that [...]
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 [...]
In amongst the explosion of popular culture releases, we've seen a growth in shaped coins. That's hardly surprising given the obvious cross-over potential, and everything from Star Wars to Streetfighter II has put in an appearance. We're going to assume that they're very popular as most of them seem to sell out in short order. One such was Shrek, the first in a series covering the hit movie franchise. Second to appear [...]
THE ENDURING SOLDIERS by National Bank of Poland Not being afraid to produce long running coin series, the excellent Stanislaw August and History of Polish Coin series being evidence of that, the National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski NBP) has embarked on another epic set of silver coins. With tensions higher than normal between Poland and Russia over the Ukrainian conflict, it seems that they felt it was time [...]
2017-2018 BATTLES THAT CHANGED HISTORY by the New Zealand Mint Completely inspired by the earlier 2016 debuting series called Warriors of History, this latest range of coins from the New Zealand Mint has shifted sideways a little by portraying the battles that have made important changes to the directions of world history, often in hindsight even if not at the time, rather than the massed combatants that fought them. It's [...]
