The seven books that make up the saga have sold more than 500 million copies around the world.
JK Rowling’s books have been translated into 80 languages.
The films had a worldwide box office of $7.725 million.
The entertainment industry has left behind many feature films that have marked generations. One of them is the Harry Potter film saga, which to celebrate its 25th anniversary it was announced that the United Kingdom is preparing the feature film’s own currency.
according to a study conducted by Box Office Mojo, details that the Harry Potter universe has been one of the most important in the entertainment industry. With a box office gross of approximately US$1.34 billion as of November 2021, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2 is the highest-grossing film in JK Rowling’s teenage wizard saga.
Beyond being a winner in the cinema, she also created a reading legion among the children and young people of a generation, for which in 2019, JK Rowling was positioned as the best-paid author of the year. And the seven books that make up the saga have sold more than 500 million copies around the world, and have also been translated into 80 languages. This has been reflected in profits of more than 7.7 billion dollars.
This will be the coin of Harry Potter
The magic of Harry Potter never ends, so the UK has announced it will mint a special coin to commemorate the 25th anniversary of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’, published by JK Rowling in 1997.
This Thursday, October 20, the Royal Mint, the British organization in charge of printing coins and banknotes, announced that a series of coins will be minted in the United Kingdom, including a 50 pence in honor of this magical story that achieved fame through international level to date.
The agency mentioned that the Harry Potter coins will be a series consisting of four pieces with the following designs: the portrait of the famous wizard with round glasses, the Hogwarts Express train, Professor Albus Dumbledore and the Hogwarts school of witchcraft.
The Royal Mint also mentioned that the coin will also include a spectacular touch that not only looks like the result of a magical spell, but will serve to authenticate these pieces.
The Harry Potter coins will include an optical effect that mimics the impact of “lightning” when they are rotated in front of light, obtained thanks to a state-of-the-art laser that gives the coins a “magical” character.
In that same order and as part of the commemoration, the coins will also have their silver Proof version, limited to 300 pieces. This piece has a value of 480 pounds, which is equivalent to 10 thousand 767 Mexican pesos.
As they will also create the 4 oz gold Proof version. And this will cost 725 pounds, approximately 16,271 Mexican pesos.
It is not the first time that the Harry Potter saga has been recognized in such a faithful way by fans, let us remember the case of a job interview that innovated and used the film in a unique move to put talent management to the test in highly specialized areas of work.
There is no doubt that even a fictional character can register a large number of followers that can generate an economy around the marketing and promotion that is carried out, regardless of the time.
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