Silver Ounce 2025 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Donatello, Coin from Tuvalu - detailed information

The Tuvaluan Dollar is the currency of Tuvalu - a small nation in the Pacific Ocean. Tuvalu has never had banknotes of its own, and has been issuing coins since 1976; these circulate together with coins of the Australian Dollar, which is also legal tender in the country, and to which the Tuvaluan Dollar is pegged.

The Australian Perth Mint issues a large variety of non-circulating legal tender coins under the authority of Tuvalu. Some of these are in the silver ounce format (abbreviated as 1 oz). Strictly speaking, they are not bullion as they are priced at a premium and are targeted at collectors who appreciate them for their artistic merit and collectable value and not just for their precious metal content.

This coin is part of a Perth Mint series released to mark the 40th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons, and features Donatello.

The mint says about it:
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a band of pizza-loving brothers like no other. Exposed to mutagenic ooze as baby turtles, they were transformed into crime-fighting New York heroes expert in the art of ninjutsu.

Tech-savvy Donatello is the "brains" of the group. With a knack for inventing and building useful gadgets, weapons and even vehicles from discarded scrap, he is smart, logical, and level-headed. Despite his nerdy and sometimes reclusive nature, Donnie is a superb warrior with a fighting style that relies on strength and stamina, but also great tactical wisdom. Donatello wears a purple eye mask and mainly fights with a bo staff featuring a retractable blade.