Silver Ounce 2025 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Raphael, 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 Raphael.

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.

The strongest and most aggressive of the Turtle brothers, Raphael tends to act first and ask questions later. Being independent and wanting to do things in his own highly combative way often puts him in conflict with the rest of the group. But as the fiercest and most impressive warrior, there’s nobody they want watching their backs more than Raphael.