The Perth Mint has added two more coins to its officially licensed Stranger Things range, a 2026 pairing that pushes the series toward its most accessible price points yet. One is a half ounce coloured silver coin built around the show’s central conflict; the other is a gold plated base metal piece that lands at just AUD 33. Both are struck as legal tender for Tuvalu and both were designed by the Mint’s Sean Rogers.
These are not the start of anything. The Mint’s licensed Stranger Things program launched in late 2025, riding the show’s final season, and opened with heavier metal, a 2oz antiqued silver coin showing the villain Vecna in the Upside Down, followed by Season 1 and Season 2 rectangular silver coins and an “Upside Down” release. The two new coins are the affordable end of that same run rather than a fresh debut.
Eleven and Vecna, in coloured silver
The dearer of the pair is the Eleven and Vecna half ounce silver coin, struck from 0.500 troy ounces of 99.99% silver and finished entirely in colour. Its reverse sets the show’s two opposing forces side by side, Eleven and Vecna, hands outstretched as they channel their powers against one another across a divided field of twisted vines that stand in for the Upside Down.
The design rewards anyone who watched closely. Eleven’s surfer boy pizza box glasses are there, as is the stained glass rose from the window of the Creel House, along with the Stranger Things logo and the inscription “your suffering is almost at an end”, a line that belongs to Vecna, and that lands a little differently now that the story has actually ended. The Perth Mint’s ‘P’ mintmark sits in the field.
At 32.60 mm and capped at a mintage of 2,500, this is the collector’s piece of the two. It retails for AUD 143 and ships in a black wooden case with red accents, a themed shipper, and a numbered certificate of authenticity. At time of writing the coin is on backorder, with the Mint cautioning that dispatch on orders containing it may run up to four weeks behind.
Welcome to Hawkins, the accessible half
The companion piece is the Welcome to Hawkins coin, and it is built to a very different brief. This is a one ounce gold plated aluminium bronze base metal coin, the entry point for the whole series, carrying a coloured reverse of the town itself: Hawkins under a dark sky, a lightning bolt overhead, and the red silhouette of the Mind Flayer looming behind the “WELCOME TO HAWKINS” sign.
The economics are the point here. At a mintage of 5,000 and a price of AUD 33, it is the coin that fans rather than numismatists are most likely to reach for, and the cheapest way into a series that started with two ounce silver. It comes in a themed fold out case and illustrated sleeve rather than a wooden box.
Where the pair sits in the run
The timing of the whole program has been deliberate. Stranger Things debuted in July 2016 and ran across nearly a decade; its fifth and final season rolled out over late 2025, with the finale streaming on New Year’s Eve. The Mint launched its coins into that window and has kept feeding the run since, and these two extend it into formats, a sub ounce coloured silver and a base metal pocket money coin, that the earlier, heavier issues left open.
Both share the standard modern issue underpinnings: a 2026 date, Tuvalu legal tender status, and the Jody Clark effigy of King Charles III on the obverse. Neither is a numismatic event in the traditional sense. Both are, straightforwardly, licensed collectables aimed at a fan base that numbers in the tens of millions.
What it means for collectors
For Stranger Things fans, the choice is simple and inexpensive: the AUD 33 Hawkins coin is the easiest keepsake on offer, and the silver Eleven and Vecna piece is the one to chase if the colour work and the 2,500 piece cap matter. For collectors, the more interesting question is breadth. A licensed series that now spans two ounce antiqued silver, rectangular season coins, an Upside Down issue and these two accessible additions is a deep one, and depth cuts both ways, giving completists plenty to chase while diluting the scarcity that usually drives secondary market interest. For now, the backorder on the silver coin is the only real read on demand, and it’s a quiet one.
