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Star Treks iconic Delta symbol in silver celebrates franchises 50th anniversary The Perth Mint are certainly ramping up and diversifying their range of Star Trek coins as we trundle through the ultra-iconic tv shows 50th anniversary year. After what we thought was a mildly disappointing first series of ten coins depicting five of the different captains and their vessels, the quality of design has [...]
Picking up the Star Trek license last year, the Perth Mint jumped straight in with a ten-coin series of Captain:Vessel sets released throughout the year. Comprised of five pairs of coloured silver coins, one for each of the live-action Star Trek series that have been produced over the franchise history, they employed some extravagent packaging to appeal to fans. A solitary Spock release to commemorate the pasing of actor Leonard Nimoy [...]
It doesn't matter if you're a fan or not, when you think classic science-fiction, you think of Star Trek. Debuting back in 1966 and continuing for three seasons, the original Star Trek series has rightly taken its place as one of the finest, and most groundbreaking sci-fi series of all time. It was to be a further decade before Trek returned to screens, and since then there have been twelve movies [...]
As we've seen over the last few months, the Perth Mint like to have a good mix of coins in its release runs and May is no exception. There's a bit of gold this month, a mirrored version of last years Kimberley Sunrise 2oz coin, this time in standard instead of rose gold, and the usual Australian Sovereign, so nothing truly new. Silver can be split into two distinct camps, proof [...]
The Perth Mint's Captain : Vessel range of Star Trek coins has reached the end with a pair celebrating the last Trek series since , Star Trek Voyager. The range launched to great fanfare with the iconic Captain Kirk and USS Enterprise from the original 1960's series and then jumped to the 1980's with the most popular version of Star Trek, The Next Generation. Deep Space 9 followed on shortly after, and [...]
The Perth Mint's Captain : Vessel range of Star Trek coins reaches the penultimate stage with a pair celebrating the last of the Next Generation inspired series, Star Trek Voyager. The range launched to great fanfare with the iconic Captain Kirk and USS Enterprise from the original 1960's series and then jumped to the 1980's with the most popular version of Star Trek, The Next Generation. Deep Space 9 followed on shortly [...]
The Perth Mint's Captain : Vessel range of Star Trek coins carries on and reaches the midway point with the third release, Deep Space 9. The range kicked off in style with the iconic Captain Kirk and USS Enterprise from the original 1960's series and then moved forward to the 1980's with the most popular version of Star Trek, The Next Generation.
The Perth Mint's new Star Trek series of silver coins continues apace with the second pair of five in the Captain : Vessel range being released. The range kicked off in style with the iconic Captain Kirk and USS Enterprise from the original 1960's series and now they've moved forward to the 1980's with the most popular version of Star Trek, The Next Generation.
It's been a long time coming, but finally one of the world's greatest TV/movie franchises has entered the modern numismatic world. The Perth Mint have snapped up the licence to Star Trek and the first two coins have their world début today. A licence doesn't get any richer than this, so we'd expect to see a plethora of new releases over the next couple of years mining the depth of characters, places, objects [...]
Numiscollect continues its trek through Lost Civilisations with a stop-over at the MesoAmerican Mayan Empire The third release in Numiscollect's interesting 'Lost Civilisations' series has debuted, and after Phoenicia, and Babylon, we've leap-frogged the Atlantic Ocean to land in South/Central America, for a look at the ancient Mayan culture. To say that Mayan civilisation was long-lived is a bit of an understatement, having roots that were set down earlier than 2,000 [...]
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 we're back with a little round-up of the last months issues in the giant Star [...]
NZ Mint expands its impressive miniature range to the Star Wars Universe with Darth Vader After a run of Star Trek, DC Comics and Disney characters, the New Zealand Mint has finally jumped into the Star Wars Universe for its range of cast silver miniatures. Not our usual thing here, we've seen a few of these in hand now and they are quite superb in detail and quality. It [...]
STAR WARS: An overview of the New Zealand Mint range from 2016 to date It was in 2016 that the New Zealand Mint announced it had obtained the licence to produce coins based on the Star Wars film universe. It had already been issuing coins for Disney, and Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm meant it was only a small step from there to Star Wars. As a universe rich with [...]
Imperial Art, the ancient architecture coin series, is back with the Greek Acropolis starring Back after a years hiatus, the Mint of Poland's impressive Imperial Art art-architectural coin series has returned. Beginning in 2014, the series debuted with a look at the Mesopotamian world through views of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Ishtar Gate. The following year saw the series journey to the land of [...]
Star Wars in back in ultra high relief coin form for 2019 with the ultra-iconic Millennium Falcon One of the most recognisable ships in the whole of science fiction, the Millennium Falcon isn't even an ultra-powerful warship or a deep space explorer - it's just a battered old freighter used by a smuggler, yet has gone on to garner an iconic status likely equalled only by the [...]
