Category: Gifts

Rituals, memories and keepsakes

Once of the best gifts you can make for a young kid is a shoebox, painted or wrapped in a fun way, with their name and photo on it. The name and photo are important to show them this box is theirs, that they own it. It is important, too, that you put the box somewhere they can get to it. The most important thing to do, though, is the ritual of putting inside the box birthday cards, Christmas cards, Easter cards, photos and other items they will one day cherish far more than when they first received them.
This ritual of keeping the cards and other items helps them understand they mean something and that through the memories they are making something.

2024 Kiwi 5oz Silver Proof Coin

We are grateful to offer this 2024 Kiwi 5oz Silver Proof Coin from the New Zealand Post Office.

Roroa in the Rotoiti Nature Recovery Project (RNRP) are protected by the work of the Department of Conservation and a group of volunteers named the Friends of Rotoiti (FOR). It’s an excellent example of a successful collaboration involving the government and a local community. The work that FOR does to protect roroa includes controlling rats, stoats, possums and feral cats by setting traps and monitoring for pest presence. It also monitors kiwi and other native animals such as kākā, lizards and robin populations in the RNRP territory. 

Highlights

  • 5oz silver coin with black proof and gold plating finish 
  • Minted from 0.999 silver
  • Designed by Stevan Stojanovic, Ōtaki, New Zealand 
  • Low worldwide limited mintage of 250
  • Part of NZ Post’s annual kiwi coin programme. 

Design

With gold plating and a black proof finish, this coin depicts a roroa kiwi on the shores of lake rotoiti, created by coin designer and sculptor Stevan Stojanovic.

This annual coin issue celebrates Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique kiwi bird.

New coins from the Royal Australian Mint

Most newsXpress stores carry coins from the Mint, but not all.

Supply of new releases is tightly controlled by the Mint. We rarely get the quantity we want. This is why we limit what each shopper can buy.

Please don’t call newsXpress shops or email them asking if they stock. The best way to find out is their local Facebook page – where their website will be listed if they have one.

Corporately, we sell coins at www.mintcoinshop.com.au. We impose limits there and cancel sales where people try and game the system.