The New Zealand Mint has dived right in with its new range of miniatures and has now added a pretty cool looking USS Enterprise to stand alongside the Captain Kirk statuette that was released a few months ago. Like the Kirk effort, this isn’t a coin in any way, so has been produced to be exactly what you see – a miniature replica in fine silver.

There has been an earlier attempt to pull this off. The Royal Canadian Mint coin from last November was twice the weight of this and debuted to quite a frenzy. For us however, it was a hugely disappointing replica that lost all semblance of accuracy the moment you looked at it in anything but plan view. To be fair, it was a struck item and not cast like this NZ Mint effort, and a comparison should also take into account the coin status of the Canadian issue, but as a representation of the fictional vessel, there’s simply no comparison.