No. Sports team logos, film and television characters, video game properties and commercial brand marks are licensed intellectual property. Reproducing them on merchandise requires permission from the rights holder, and that permission is not something a coin manufacturer can grant.

This catches people out because the intent is almost always harmless. A squadron wants its unofficial mascot on a coin. A department wants a film reference the shift has joked about for years. A company wants a character its team identifies with. None of that changes who owns the character.

The risk is not theoretical. Entertainment and sports rights holders actively police merchandise, and a coin is merchandise even when it is given away rather than sold. The exposure sits with whoever commissioned it.

What usually works instead: our artists can build an original design that carries the same feeling without using the protected property. A squadron known for a particular animal gets an original rendering of that animal rather than a studio’s version of it. The in-joke survives, the legal problem does not.

Public domain imagery, historical subjects, your own organisation’s insignia and original artwork are all fine.

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