In 2017 to celebrate Disney Pixar Cars first released in 2006, the New Zealand Mint released a very special Limited Issue Lightning McQueen $2 Two Dollar Silver Proof Coin struck in solid fine .999 Silver weighing one ounce of pure Silver.
The reverse of the coin features the hotshot, rookie race car Lightning McQueen, against an engraved background of the Radiator Springs countryside while the obverse depicts Ian Rank Broadley's portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .
These legal tender coins have been struck to proof quality using specially prepared dies and highly polished blanks.