A great looking piece of artwork, this one has an edgy look and the Batman image blended in with the comic art panels is very well done. The image of the character on the aforementioned obverse is also very nicely done, and the whole thing should be very appealing to fans of the character. Packaging is first class, as it has been on almost all of these NZ Mint foil issues. Customised inside and out, the box is well up to the job, and the acrylic frame the foil is sealed in makes display very easy.

The 1g gold foil follows the traditional banknote format in appearance, and has a more classically orientated visual style than the silver release. It carries over the high quality packaging and customised obverse of its cheaper brethren, but seems aimed at a slightly less contemporary audience.

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).

The NZ Mint embraced the concept, and we now have almost 150 of these spread over multiple pop-culture franchises, and it all started with Batman. From 2023, 10% of each coins 2,000 mintage has been changed to a fully gilded version, but they are randomly placed in the boxes, so you won’t know if you got one until it has been opened.

Chibi coins based around the various films in the DC universe.

Chibi released for the film, The Batman.

These are like the normal Chibi coins, but tip the scales at double the weight. There are no gilded variants, and the mintage is much lower.