![]() Solo did indeed live through the freezing process and went into suspended animation. Those that did will have a more difficult decision to make.Ĭaptured by the Empire, Solo was frozen in carbonite by Darth Vader to see if a human could survive the process, one which he wanted to use on Luke Skywalker. For collectors who didn’t buy this design back in 2015, it’s the perfect time to grab one, although at $175.00 it remains a considerably more expensive way to do so. That coin was also a superb item, far better than the early images suggested and we’d expect the same again here. The Darth Vader packing is used again and we can confirm it’s first class. Issued for Niue, the effigy of QEII sits in the centre of the obverse along with the inscribed date, issuer and denomination. ![]() Depicting Han Solo frozen in carbonite from The Empire Strikes Back, it’s a fitting scene for the UHR technique. The original design was an excellent one and we don’t doubt this new variant will improve on it, but we’d like to have seen something new. This time out however, the mint has decided to reuse artwork from the Classic Star Wars coin – something bound to be a bit divisive. Han Solo is as iconic a good-guy Star Wars character as Darth Vader is for the baddies, so his choice for the second coin comes as little surprise. It didn’t take a psychic to guess that the popularity went unnoticed and that more coins in the format would follow. Darth Vader was struck in two-ounces of silver and sold out its 5,000 mintage in pretty quick order. The New Zealand Mint recently expanded its range of Star Wars themed coins away from its regular series with the release of its first ultra high relief (UHR) coin.
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