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Disney Collectible Coin Series Begins with Mickey Mouse in “Steamboat Willie”
A new collectible coin series featuring Disney’s most beloved characters has launched. The first coin features Mickey Mouse in a scene from the 1928 animated short film Steamboat Willie. The film is considered to be the debut of Mickey Mouse, who would become one of the world’s most popular cartoon characters. It is also notable for being the first cartoon with synchronized sound and the first to feature a post-produced soundtrack. In 1994, Steamboat Willie was voted the thirteenth greatest cartoon of all time and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry 1998, being deemed culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. The reverse design of the coin features a…