Star Coin

They are larger than normal coins, and depict a star. Each level contains three, which adds up to 240  of them in all, and they are used to open up paths on the world map and to buy Touch Screen background images later on in the game. They appeared again in the sequel, New Super Mario Bros. Wii. In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, they allowed you to buy hint videos. Also, when you collect all of the Star Coins in a world, the respective level in "World 9" will open. They appear again in Super Mario 3D Land (under the name Star Medals, which some people confuse for Star Coins) and New Super Mario Bros. 2. In New Super Mario Bros. U and New Super Luigi U, the easier ways to get them is with the Flying Squirrel ability, pink baby Yoshi, and platforms created by the Gamepad (if playing with a Wii Remote).

Usually, Star Coins are hard to reach, some include you need power-ups, like the Propeller Mushroom and Flying Squirrel, some coins require you to take the secret exit.

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Trampoline Time Characters Protagonists Mario • Luigi • Princess Peach Antagonists Bowser • Bowser Jr. • Koopalings • Kamek Supporting Characters Princess Peach • Yoshi • Toad Worlds World 1 World 1-1 • World 1-2 • World 1-3 • World 1- • World 1- • World 1-4 • World 1-5 • World 1-6 • World 1- World 2 World 2-1 • World 2-2 • World 2-3 • World 2- • World 2-4 • World 2-5 • World 2-6 • World 2- World 3 World 3-1 • World 3-2 • World 3-3 • World 3- • World 3- • World 3- • World 3-4 • World 3-5 • World 3- World 4 World 4-1 • World 4-2 • World 4-3 • World 4- • World 4- • World 4-4 • World 4- • World 4-5 • World 4- • World 4- World 5 World 5-1 • World 5-2 • World 5-3 • World 5- • World 5-4 • World 5- • World 5- • World 5-5 • World 5- World 6 World 6-1 • World 6-2 • World 6-3 • World 6-4 • World 6- • World 6-5 • World 6-6 • World 6- • World 6- • World 6- • World 6- World 7 World 7-1 • World 7-2 • World 7-3 • World 7- • World 7- World 7-4 • World 7-5 • World 7-6 • World 7- World 8 World 8-1 • World 8-2 • World 8-3 • World 8- • World 8-4 • World 8-5 • World 8-6 • World 8-7 • World 8- • World 8- World 9 World 9-1 • World 9-2 • World 9-3 • World 9-4 • World 9-5 • World 9-6 • World 9-7 • World 9-8 Coin Courses World Coin-1 • World Coin-2 • World Coin-3 • World Coin-4 • World Coin-5 Enemies Enemies Amp • Banzai Bill • Banzai Bill Cannon • Big Boo • Big Cheep Cheep • Big Deep Cheep • Big Dry Bones • Big Fire Piranha Plant • Big Fuzzy • Big Goomba • Big Piranha Plant • Big Thwomp • Big Wiggler • Big Urchin • Bill Blaster • Bill Blaster Turret • Blooper • Blooper Baby • Blooper Nanny • Bob-omb • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Bramball • Broozer • Bulber • Bull's-Eye Bill • Bullet Bill • Buzzy Beetle • Cannonball • Chain Chomp • Cheep Cheep • Cheep Chomp • Circling Boo Buddies • Clampy • Climbing Koopa • Cooligan • Crowber • Deep Cheep • Dry Bones • Eep Cheep • Fire Bro • Fire Piranha Plant • Fire Snake • Fish Bone • Flame Chomp • Foo • Fuzzy • Ghost Vase • Giant Cannonball • Goomba • Hammer Bro • Heavy Para-Beetle • Huckit Crab • Ice Bro • Jellybeam • King Bill • King Bill (New Super Mario Bros. Wii) • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lava Bubble • Mechakoopa • Mega Goomba • Micro Goomba • Monty Mole • Muncher • Parabomb • Para-Beetle • Paragoomba • Piranha Plant • Pokey • Porcupuffer • River Piranha Plant • Rocky Wrench • Scaredy Rat • Sledge Bro • Spike • Spike Top • Spiny • Spiny Cheep Cheep • Stalking Piranha Plant • Stone Spike • Swoop • Thwomp • Urchin • Wiggler Obstacles Burner • Fire Bar • Giant Spiked Ball • Icicle • Skewer • Spiked Ball • Spinner • Volcanic Debris • Volcanic Smoke Bosses Bowser Jr. • Larry Koopa • Roy Koopa • Lemmy Koopa • Wendy O. Koopa • Iggy Koopa • Morton Koopa Jr. • Ludwig von Koopa • Kamek • Bowser Items Items Super Mushroom • Mario Car • 1-Up Mushroom • Mini Mushroom • Propeller Mushroom • Fire Flower • Ice Flower • Penguin Suit • Star • Coin • Blue Coin • Red Coin • Red Ring • Hidden Coin • Star Coin • Trampoline • POW Block • Light Block • Propeller Block • Stretch Block • Roulette Block • P Switch • ? Switch • Red ! Switch • Square Cloud • Barrel • Toad Balloon • Berry • Checkpoint Flag Characters Playable Mario • Luigi Bosses Bowser • Koopalings (Roy Koopa • Iggy Koopa • Larry Koopa • Wendy O. Koopa • Morton Koopa Jr. • Lemmy Koopa • Ludwig von Koopa) • Reznor • Dry Bowser Supporting Princess Peach • Toad Worlds and levels World 1 World 1- • World 1-1 • World 1-2 • World 1-3 • World 1- • World 1- • World 1-4 • World 1-5 • World 1-A • World 1- World 2 World 2- • World 2-1 • World 2-2 • World 2-3 • World 2-A • World 2- • World 2- • World 2-4 • World 2-5 • World 2-B • World 2- World Mushroom World Mushroom- • World Mushroom-1 • World Mushroom-2 • World Mushroom- • World Mushroom-A • World Mushroom-3 • World Mushroom- • World Mushroom-B • World Mushroom- World 3 World 3- • World 3-1 • World 3-2 • World 3-3 • World 3-A • World 3- • World 3- • World 3-4 • World 3- • World 3-5 • World 3-B • World 3- World 4 World 4- • World 4-1 • World 4- • World 4-2 • World 4-A • World 4- • World 4-B • World 4-3 • World 4-4 • World 4-C • World 4-5 • World 4- World Flower World Flower- • World Flower-1 • World Flower-A • World Flower- • World Flower- • World Flower-2 • World Flower-3 • World Flower-B • World Flower- World 5 World 5- • World 5-1 • World 5-2 • World 5- • World 5-3 • World 5- • World 5-4 • World 5-A • World 5-5 • World 5-6 • World 5- World 6 World 6- • World 6-1 • World 6- • World 6-2 • World 6-B • World 6-3 • World 6-A • World 6- • World 6-4 • World 6-5 • World 6- World Star World Star- • World Star-1 • World Star-2 • World Star-3 • World Star-4 • World Star-5 • World Star-6 • World Star-7 • World Star- Downloadable Content Gold Rush Pack • Coin Challenge Pack A • Nerve-Wrack Pack • Gold Mushroom Pack • Coin Challenge Pack B • Gold Classics Pack • Coin Challenge Pack C • Platform Panic Pack • Mystery Adventures Pack • Impossible Pack Items and objects Items 10 Gold Coin • Blue Coin • Coin • Crown Coin • Fire Flower • Giant Coin • Gold Flower • Gold Mushroom • Hidden Coin • Invincibility Leaf • Mega Mushroom • Mini Mushroom • Moon Coin • Super Star • Star Coin • Super Leaf • Super Mushroom Objects Brick Block • Checkpoint Flag • Flipper • Gold Ring • Item Storage • Red Ring • Springboard • Gold Block Enemies and obstacles Enemies Amp • Banzai Bill (Gold) • Banzai Bill Cannon • Big Bone Piranha Plant • Big Boo (Gold) • Big Cheep Cheep • Big Deep Cheep • Big Dry Bones • Big Fuzzy • Big Piranha Plant • Big Thwomp • Big Venus Fire Trap • Big Whomp • Bill Blaster • Bill Blaster Turret • Blooper • Blooper Baby • Blooper Nanny • Bob-omb • Bone Goomba • Bone Piranha Plant • Boo (Gold) • Boohemoth • Boomerang Bro (Gold) • Boulder • Bullet Bill (Gold) • Burner • Buzzy Beetle • Chain Chomp • Cheep Cheep (Gold) • Cheep Chomp • Climbing Koopa • Coin Coffer • Crowber • Current • Deep Cheep • Dry Bones • Fire Bar • Fire Bro (Gold) • Fire Piranha Plant • Fire Snake • Fish Bone • Flame Chomp • Fuzzy • Goomba (Gold) • Goomba Tower (Gold) • Gray Bowser Statue • Grinder • Hammer Bro (Gold) • Koopa Paratroopa (Gold) • Koopa Troopa (Gold) • Lakitu (Gold) • Lava • Lava Bubble • Micro Goomba • Para-bomb • Paragoomba (Gold) • Peepa • Piranha Plant (Gold) • Poisoned Water • Pokey • Porcupuffer • Quicksand • Scuttlebug • Skewer • Sledge Bro • Small Urchin • Spike Top • Spiked Ball • Spiny • Spiny Cheep Cheep • Spiny Egg • Swoop • Thwomp • Urchin • Volcanic Debris • Whirlpool • Whomp • Wiggler Characters Playable characters Mario • Luigi • Yellow Toad • Blue Toad* • Toadette** • Nabbit**/*** • Mii* Supporting characters Princess Peach • Toad • Green Yoshi • Baby Yoshi (Balloon, Bubble, Glowing) Bosses Koopalings (Lemmy Koopa, Morton Koopa Jr., Larry Koopa, Wendy O. Koopa, Iggy Koopa, Roy Koopa, Ludwig von Koopa) • Bowser Jr. • Bowser Enemies and obstacles Enemies Amp* • Banzai Bill • Big Amp* • Big Boo • Big Buzzy Beetle* • Big Cheep Cheep • Big Dry Bones • Big Deep Cheep** • Big Eep Cheep** • Big Fuzzy • Big Goomba • Big Koopa Troopa • Big Piranha Plant • Big Thwomp • Big Urchin • Big Venus Fire Trap** • Big Wiggler • Blooper • Blooper Baby* • Blooper Nanny* • Bob-omb • Bony Beetle • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Bowser Stunner • Bramball • Broozer • Bulber* • Bullet Bill • Buzzy Beetle • Chain Chomp • Cheep Cheep • Cheep Chomp • Circling Boo Buddies • Cooligan • Dai Gorō • Deep Cheep** • Dragoneel • Dragoneel (purple)* • Dry Bones • Eep Cheep • Fire Bro • Fire Snake • Fire Piranha Plant • Fish Bone • Flame Chomp • Fliprus • Foo • Fuzzy • Goomba • Goomba (balloon)* • Goombrat • Grrrol • Gūrindai • Hammer Bro • Heavy Para-Beetle • Hefty Goomba • Huckit Crab • Ice Bro • Ice Piranha Plant • Jellybeam* • King Bill • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lava Bubble • Lava Geyser • Magmaargh • Magmaw • Mecha Cheep* • Mecha Hand • Mechakoopa • Meteor • Mini Goomba • Missile Bill • Monty Mole • Muncher • Nabbit • Para-Beetle • Parabomb • Paragoomba* • Piranha Plant • Pokey • Porcupuffer • Prickly Goomba • Red Skull Box • River Piranha Plant • Rocky Wrench* • Scaredy Rat* • Sledge Bro • Spike • Spike Top • Spiked Ball • Spinner • Spiny • Spiny Cheep Cheep • Stalking Piranha Plant • Stone Spike • Sumo Bro • Swoop* • Targeting Ted • Thwimp* • Thwomp • Torpedo Ted • Urchin • Waddlewing • Wiggler Obstacles Banzai Bill Cannon • Big Fire Bar • Bill Blaster • Bill Blaster Turret • Burner • Cannon • Cannonball* • Fire Bar • Giant Cannonball • Icicle • Obake Block • Red Skull Box • Skewer • Skull Box* • Spiked Ball • Spinner • Spiny Egg Worlds and levels Acorn Plains Acorn Plains Way • Tilted Tunnel • Crushing-Cogs Tower • Yoshi Hill • Mushroom Heights • Rise of the Piranha Plants • Lemmy's Swingback Castle • Blooper's Secret Lair • Waddlewing Warning!*** • Crooked Cavern*** • Flame-Gear Tower*** • Rolling Yoshi Hills*** • Piranha Heights*** • Piranha Gardens*** • Lemmy's Lights-Out Castle*** • Cheep Chomp Chase*** Layer-Cake Desert Stone-Eye Zone • Perilous Pokey Cave • Fire Snake Cavern • Stoneslide Tower • Spike's Spouting Sands • Dry Desert Mushrooms • Blooming Lakitus • Morton's Compactor Castle • Piranha Plants on Ice • Piranha Plants on Ice • Spike's Tumbling Desert*** • Underground Grrrols*** • Piranhas in the Dark*** • Wind-Up Tower*** • The Walls Have Eyes*** • Stone Spike Conveyors*** • Spinning Sandstones*** • Morton's Lava-Block Castle*** • Slippery Rope Ladders*** Sparkling Waters Waterspout Beach • Tropical Refresher • Giant Skewer Tower • Haunted Shipwreck • Above the Cheep Cheep Seas • Urchin Shoals • Dragoneel's Undersea Grotto • Larry's Torpedo Castle • Skyward Stalk • Huckit Beach Resort*** • Urchin Reef Romp*** • Shish-Kebab Tower*** • Haunted Cargo Hold*** • The Great Geysers*** • The Great Geysers*** • Dragoneel Depths*** • Larry's Trigger-Happy Castle*** • Beanstalk Jungle*** Frosted Glacier Spinning-Star Sky • Cooligan Fields • Freezing-Rain Tower • Prickly Goombas! • Scaling the Mountainside • Icicle Caverns • Swaying Ghost House • Fliprus Lake • Fliprus Lake • Broozers and Barrels*** • Cooligan Shrooms*** • Icicle Tower*** • Fire and Ice*** • Weighty Waddlewings*** • Ice-Slide Expressway*** • Peek-a-Boo Ghost House*** • Wendy's Thwomp Castle*** • Fliprus Floes*** Soda Jungle The Mighty Cannonship† • Jungle of the Giants • Bridge over Poisoned Waters • Bramball Woods • Snake Block Tower • Which-Way Labyrinth • Painted Swampland • Deepsea Ruins • Seesaw Bridge • Wiggler Stampede • Iggy's Volcanic Castle • Flight of the Para-Beetles • All Aboard!†/*** • Giant Swing-Along*** • Dancing Blocks, Poison Swamp*** • Heart of Bramball Woods*** • Stone-Snake Tower*** • Stone-Snake Tower*** • Painted Pipeworks*** • Deepsea Stone-Eyes*** • Sumo Bro Bridge*** • Wiggler Floodlands*** • Iggy's Swinging-Chains Castle*** • Para-Beetle Parade*** Rock-Candy Mines Fuzzy Clifftop • Porcupuffer Falls • Grinding-Stone Tower • Waddlewing's Nest • Light Blocks, Dark Tower • Walking Piranha Plants! • Thrilling Spine Coaster • Screwtop Tower • Screwtop Tower • Roy's Conveyor Castle • Mount Fuzzy*** • Porcupuffer Cavern*** • Smashing-Stone Tower*** • Spike's Seesaws*** • Light-Up-Lift Tower*** • Rising Piranhas*** • Spine Coaster Stowaways*** • Sumo Bro's Spinning Tower*** • Switch-Lift Express*** • Roy's Ironclad Castle*** Meringue Clouds Land of Flying Blocks • Seesaw Shrooms • Switchback Hill • Slide Lift Tower • Spinning Spirit House • Bouncy Cloud Boomerangs • A Quick Dip in the Sky • Snaking above Mist Valley • Ludwig's Clockwork Castle • Boarding the Airship • Frozen Fuzzies*** • Wiggler Rodeo*** • Rainbow Skywalk*** • Stonecrush Tower*** • Vanishing Ghost House*** • Above the Bouncy Clouds*** • Flame Chomp Ferris Wheel*** • Three-Headed Snake Block*** • Ludwig's Block-Press Castle*** • Bowser Jr. Showdown*** Peach's Castle Meteor Moat • Magma-River Cruise • Rising Tides of Lava • Firefall Cliffs • Red-Hot Elevator Ride • The Final Battle • Magma Moat*** • Magmaw River Cruise*** • Hot Cogs*** • Firefall Rising*** • Current Event*** • The Final Battle*** Superstar Road Spine-Tingling Spine Coaster • Run for It • Swim for Your Life! • Hammerswing Caverns • Spinning Platforms of Doom • Fire Bar Cliffs • Lakitu! Lakitu! Lakitu! • Pendulum Castle • Follow That Shell! • Spine Coaster Connections*** • P Switch Peril*** • Star Coin Deep Dive*** • Hammerswing Hangout*** • Under Construction*** • Fire Bar Sprint*** • Cloudy Capers*** • Impossible Pendulums*** • Flying Squirrel Ovation*** Coin Courses World Coin-1 • World Coin-2 • World Coin-3 • World Coin-4 • World Coin-5 • World Coin-6 • World Coin-7 • World Coin-8 Other Secret Island Collectibles and objects Power-ups Fire Flower • Ice Flower • Mini Mushroom • Penguin Suit • Propeller Mushroom • Super Acorn (P-Acorn) • Super Crown** • Super Mushroom • Super Star (Boost Star) Items ? Switch • ! Switch • 1-Up Mushroom • 3-Up Moon • Berry • Blue Coin • Boost Star • Coin • Dash Coin • Green Coin • Red Coin • Star Coin • Yoshi Egg Objects 3-Up Moon Block • Barrel • Beanstalk • Boost Block • Brick Block • Cannon Pipe • Checkpoint Flag • Coin Block • Donut Lift • Flying Question Block • Giant Brick Block • Giant Question Block • Giant Snake Block • Goal Pole • Green Ring • Ice Block • Light Block • Note Block • POW Block • P-Switch • Qestion Block • Red Ring • Roulette Block • Snake Block • Super Guide Block • Springboard • Stretch Block • Warp Door • Water Pipe • Water Ball • Wooden Block Miscellaneous Other Ash • Current • Floating Jump • Koopa Clown Car • Lava • Poisoned Water • Quicksand • Sand Geyser • Spine Coaster • Stone-Eye • Water Geyser Info Gallery (Luigi U/Deluxe) *-Exclusive to New Super Mario Bros. U • **-Exclusive to New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe • ***-Exclusive to New Super Luigi U †-Level before the world