Star Wars Coins from NZ Mint

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The New Zealand Mint is releasing Star Wars themed silver coins.

http://www.nzmint.com/starwars

There are two types, the 1oz silver:

About the Design

New Zealand Mint is proud to launch one of cinema's most enduring and beloved franchises, Star Wars, as a legal tender coin set. These coin series will be hugely popular for both Star Wars devotees and coin-collectors alike. This first series is a limited mintage and are quite simply out of this Universe. Don't deny the Force within you, and get your set today.
Reverse Design

The first series includes eight 1oz 999 Silver coins depicting the characters of the Star Wars movies packaged in two unique four coin sets. The coins feature a full coloured image of your favourite character duos of Luke Skywalker / Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi / Yoda, R2-D2 / C-3PO, Han Solo / Chewbacca. The second set of four coins feature the dark side including Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, Death Star, and a Stormtrooper.
Obverse Design

The obverse of the coin features The Raphael Maklouf effigy of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II sovereign of the commonwealth of Niue.
Limited Mintage

Each coin in the Star Wars set is struck from 1oz of pure silver. No more than 7,500 of each coin will be issued by the New Zealand Mint. The coins are legal tender of Niue Island.
Packaging

The silver coin series will be packaged as two unique sets of four coins. One will be the Darth Vader head, and the other the Millennium Falcon ship, representing the dark side and the Rebel Alliance. Open the Darth Vader case and hear authentic movie sound effects of Darth Vader breathing. Open the Millennium Falcon case and hear authentic movie sound effects of the ship's iconic "jump to light speed".
Authenticity

Each Star Wars set comes with an individually numbered certificate of authenticity issued by New Zealand Mint

Purity
Fine Silver 999
Country of Issue
Niue
Year of Issue
2011
Denomination
$2.00
Diameter
40mm
Finish
Proof Like
Mintage
7,500
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Source: http://www.nzmint.com

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Source: http://www.nzmint.com



And the silver plated:

About the Design

New Zealand Mint is proud to launch one of cinema's most enduring and beloved franchises, Star Wars, as a legal tender coin set. These coin series will be hugely popular for both Star Wars devotees and coin-collectors alike. The first series includes ten Silver Plated base metal coins. A total of 40 coins will be released as Silver Plated base metal coins, and a unique 40 coin holder will be available to purchase shortly. Don't deny the Force within you, and make sure you secure all 40 of these out of this world coins.
Reverse Design

The first ten Silver Plated base metal coins include characters of the Star Wars movies. The coins feature a full coloured image of your favourite characters: Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, R2-D2, C-3PO, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Darth Vader, and Emperor Palpatine.
Obverse Design

The obverse of the coin features The Raphael Maklouf effigy of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II sovereign of the commonwealth of Niue.
Limited Mintage

Each coin in the Star Wars set is struck from Silver Plated base metal. No more than 50,000 of each coin will be issued by the New Zealand Mint. The coins are legal tender of Niue.
Packaging

The base metal coins will be sold an individual coins in a sealed blister pack. A 40 coin holder will be available to purchase shortly which will hold all coins in this series.

Purity
Silver Plated / Cu/Zn
Country of Issue
Niue
Year of Issue
2011
Denomination
$1
Diameter
40mm
Finish
Brilliant Uncirculated
Mintage
50,000
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They're available from November but pre-orders are taken now.

As a Star Wars fan and a silver stacker, I am salivating over these. I definitely want them, may just get the 1oz'ers though.
 
LOL. Like trading cards for grown ups.

10 years ago I would have been all over these, I'll be giving it a pass.
 
Just ordered 4 sets for total of $1800 NZ approx. Be interesting to see if Aust customs tries to get money out of me ie over $1000 threshold. And yet these are bullion coins at 99.999% silver. Any thoughts from those who regularly swap,sell between NZ and Australia?
 
If they hadn't brought out the last three (first three) films I wouldn't even think twice before getting a set of these, now...meh! I am over it.

I don't object to them but I think the first set was around $400-$500, for that price I can buy some silver rounds and some more Star Wars collector stickers and still have plenty of money left over, in fact, for that price I can buy some lunar dragons and apply the stickers on top.

Plus I don't have an album big enough to store the cases.
 
just make sure you don't buy the individual "coins sold separately" - silver plated base metal coins
 
oy.. so many conflicting emotions, as a stacker its over priced, but as a star wars nerd its too hard to pass up!!

Anyone in Canada order form NZmint before? How are the shipping costs?
 
cdnmetalmetalhead said:
oy.. so many conflicting emotions, as a stacker its over priced, but as a star wars nerd its too hard to pass up!!

Anyone in Canada order form NZmint before? How are the shipping costs?
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Try in nzmint page
But to argentina is very expensive.
Add to cart
Make a check out and change destination country to see shipping cost.
Dont need to register
 
cdnmetalmetalhead said:
oy.. so many conflicting emotions, as a stacker its over priced, but as a star wars nerd its too hard to pass up!!

Anyone in Canada order form NZmint before? How are the shipping costs?
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Ha. My son would pay twice as much for these if he had the money or new about them (perhaps a birthday idea). Me thinks that there are many Star Wars die hards the same who will pay what ever it costs. If it is a one off run and given the generations of kids sucked into the Star Wars franchise anything is possible. Have you checked out the price of the old toys still in original packaging. Can't believe mum threw them out instead of keeping them for 30years. What was she thinking???
 
My partner liked these coins, but the close-up shows "Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM" plastered on it and that put him off!
 
I just rang the NZ mint. Had previously ordered 4 sets (just short of $2000 NZ worth). Asked them to split the order in terms of mailing so that no fool at Australian customs tries to hold up the order without me paying tax for being over $1000 worth. No problems. Order split now at no extra cost.

Interestingly the NZ girl I was talking to indicated that Australians had taken up this order in the majority so far. Also that the mint promotions fellow has just got back from the US (some coin fare) and it is generating a lot of enthusiasm. The mint have been taken aback with the popularity of this first series and it would seem are about to do a take on all orders to ensure they are not being oversubscribed.

Think it might be a good set in terms of numismatic value. So as a stacker, I'm shying off from them. As a numismatic collector, I've gotten 4 sets and may get a few more. :) Got my feet in both camps!
 
Bullion Baron said:
luckylukeonline said:
Interestingly the NZ girl I was talking to indicated that Australians had taken up this order in the majority so far.
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Do you think there is some New Zealand precious metals forum where all the users are complaining about the majority of these sets being sold to foreign buyers (ala the Dragon here)?? :D

Good idea splitting the orders to avoid the tax, good thing they look after you like that.

I have been contemplating these sets... but then I look at my Transformer coins from 2009 that were supposed to do well also :mad:
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I think the Star Wars geeks far outnumber the Transformer geeks. :)
 
If you are a Star Wars nerd just buy a couple of figures. Much cheaper and you can play with them for added bonus. :)

imo, the only good reason to buy these is if you think they might go up in value.

The novelty value of having something like this passes and then you wonder why you paid so much. It was like that for me with the Mayan coins. Oohh, these are nice. Now they are just sitting doing nothing.

I'll pass.
 
hawkeye said:
If you are a Star Wars nerd just buy a couple of figures. Much cheaper and you can play with them for added bonus. :)

imo, the only good reason to buy these is if you think they might go up in value.

The novelty value of having something like this passes and then you wonder why you paid so much. It was like that for me with the Mayan coins. Oohh, these are nice. Now they are just sitting doing nothing.

I'll pass.
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I used my neighbour as a fairweather guage. He buys "toys" for resale as well as being a collector himself. Literally has container loads of gear, preserved and locked up in his warehouse. He was very excited about these starwars sets for his own private collection. That was enough for me.
 
hawkeye said:
If you are a Star Wars nerd just buy a couple of figures. Much cheaper and you can play with them for added bonus. :)

imo, the only good reason to buy these is if you think they might go up in value.

The novelty value of having something like this passes and then you wonder why you paid so much. It was like that for me with the Mayan coins. Oohh, these are nice. Now they are just sitting doing nothing.

I'll pass.
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Think there may be a difference between "Mayan coins" and "Star wars coins" in terms of their following as collectables. I see them both as little more than junk, but junk that is far more easier to pass on to one buying audience than another buying audience. :)
 
hawkeye said:
If you are a Star Wars nerd just buy a couple of figures. Much cheaper and you can play with them for added bonus. :)
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Play with them?!?!?

That is crazy talk, all my recent figures are still sealed in their original boxes, they are not toys, they are collectables!

They were way more fun when I was a kid and I mistook them for toys and played with them.
 
I'm waiting for the life sized 24ct Gold Light Saber!!
Group buy~everyone gets to play with it for a fortnight each,every year.

:)
 
hawkeye said:
The novelty value of having something like this passes and then you wonder why you paid so much. It was like that for me with the Mayan coins. Oohh, these are nice. Now they are just sitting doing nothing.
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Will gladly buy the Mayan coins off you at a fraction of the price :lol:
 
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