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Top Gun Turns 40: Celebrate With 1g of Pure Gold From The Perth Mint

Top Gun hit cinemas in 1986. Forty years later, it still has a firm hold on fans. The Perth Mint is marking the anniversary with a 1g gold rectangular coin. It is priced at $330 at Mint Coin Shop.

The Dark Knight Returns in 5g of Silver: A Batman Foil for Serious Fans

Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns was first published in 1986. It showed an older, retired Bruce Wayne pulled back into the cape. Many fans still rank it among the most important Batman storie...

Minnie Mouse Gets the Art Deco Treatment in 5g of Pure Silver

Minnie Mouse first appeared alongside Mickey Mouse in 1928. That puts her right in the Art Deco era. Agoro by New Zealand Mint has leaned into that link with a 5g silver collectible foil. It is pri...

The Bright Ideas Privy Mark Collection: Seven Coins, One Lightbulb, 15,000 Sets

Every Bright Ideas product tells the same story of Australian invention. The $1 and $2 Privy Mark Seven-Coin Collection tells it in the most complete way. At $159, it is the premium set in the prog...

Five $1 Coins, One Folder and a $2 Till Coin Included: The Bright Ideas Set Explained

The 2026 Bright Ideas $1 Uncirculated Collection Folder and Five-Coin Set is built for completing. Five coins. Five inventions. One folder to hold them all. It is priced at $37 at Mint Coin Shop. T...

Bright Ideas $2 Proof Coin: The Collector's Edition, Limited to 10,000

The 2026 Bright Ideas program has a coin for every budget. For collectors who want the best finish, the $2 proof coin is the one to own. It carries the same design as the uncirculated version. The ...

Five Big Australian Ideas on One $2 Coin

Some of the most useful things in the world started in Australian sheds, labs and kitchens. The 2026 Bright Ideas $2 Uncirculated Coin puts five of them on a single coin. It is a joint release from...

How a Bondi doctor gave Australia the jaffle

People have toasted bread over fires for centuries. Hinged "pie irons" were sold in America from the 1920s. But a hot sandwich had one big flaw. The moment you bit into it, the filling escaped. Mel...

From exploding black holes to your home Wi-Fi

In the early 1990s, computers that needed to talk to each other needed cables. Radio looked like the obvious replacement, but indoors it failed badly. Radio waves bounce off walls, ceilings and fur...

The Adelaide invention that made a baby's first ride home safer

By the late 1970s, cars had been part of family life for decades. Yet newborns were still riding home from hospital on a parent's lap or in a carrycot sitting loose on the back seat. In a crash, a ...