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April, 2022

The Royal Mint’s long-running numismatic celebration of Peter Rabbit continues in the characters 120th year

By |2022-04-04T00:04:08+01:00April 4th, 2022|Categories: News|

The Royal Mint's long-running numismatic celebration of Peter Rabbit continues in the characters 120th year Peter Rabbit is 120 years old and for the seventh consecutive year, the Royal Mint is issuing coins celebrating the legendary children's literary character. Royal Mint artist, Ffion Gwillim, is back doing the honours, and she's produced a super looking design this year, a perfect homage to the original artwork. It must be difficult to produce [...]

April, 2021

Peter Rabbit returns to the Royal Mint with a new format and a new visual style

By |2021-04-26T09:03:19+01:00April 26th, 2021|Categories: Art & Literature, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Peter Rabbit returns to the Royal Mint with a new format and a new visual style It seems Peter isn't ready for the stew yet as the Royal Mint have brought him back for a sixth year of releases, but with all new formats and a refreshed, and no doubt controversial, artistic look. Just the one design this year (so far), which also marks out a new direction for the franchise.It's [...]

March, 2020

For the fifth and final time, the Royal Mint brings Peter Rabbit to its 50p coin range

By |2020-03-19T02:29:00+00:00March 19th, 2020|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

For the fifth and final time, the Royal Mint brings Peter Rabbit to its 50p coin range One of the first Royal Mint licenced fifty pence coins to generate a buying frenzy, the debut Peter Rabbit coin, released in 2016, sold out its 15,000 mintage in barely a week. Three other character coins were released through that year, and in 2017 they returned with four new designs. Even [...]

March, 2019

Peter Rabbit is back at the Royal Mint with new coins for the fourth year running

By |2019-03-19T17:45:38+00:00March 19th, 2019|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Peter Rabbit is back at the Royal Mint with new coins for the fourth year running The bunny is back for the fourth consecutive annual release of coins celebrating the work of Beatrix Potter. Four coins were first launched to an extremely eager buying public in 2016 and following that with an even more frantic launch in 2017 with four new entrants, and a third set of [...]

October, 2017

Royal Mint expands its Beatrix Potter offering with a gold Peter Rabbit and deluxe silver sets

By |2017-10-27T18:48:24+01:00October 27th, 2017|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Royal Mint expands its Beatrix Potter offering with a gold Peter Rabbit and deluxe silver sets One of the surprise hits of 2016, especially in the United Kingdom, the Beatrix Potter series of Tales of Peter Rabbit coins almost crashed the Royal Mint website as thousands queued to buy them. Ostensibly simple coins, just a quarter-ounce of silver with colour highlighting, even a price of £55 per [...]

September, 2021

The Royal Mint releases updated mintage information on the ten rarest circulating 50 pence coins

By |2021-09-14T22:03:16+01:00September 14th, 2021|Categories: Marketwatch, Royal Mint|

The Royal Mint releases updated mintage information on the ten rarest circulating 50 pence coins Probably the most popular of all British circulating currency when it comes to collectability, the iconic seven-sided fifty pence coin has seen an explosion of new releases over the last decade. In the proof commemorative market alone, the Royal Mint has issued a ton of popular culture, nature, history and literature themed designs, but [...]

September, 2020

The Royal Mint debuts the first three in a nine-coin multi-year Winnie the Pooh tsunami in gold and silver

By |2020-09-24T18:00:37+01:00September 24th, 2020|Categories: News|

The Royal Mint debuts the first three in a nine-coin multi-year Winnie the Pooh tsunami in gold and silver The Royal Mint continues its dive into the literary world with its extensive fifty pence coin range with the addition of Winnie the Pooh. Coming at the same time the New Zealand Mint also has a four-coin series in progress, it does nothing to help us understand the intricate world of licencing media [...]

June, 2018

The Royal Mint’s next big thing? Paddington Bear is 60 and a new coin range celebrates.

By |2018-06-18T09:49:05+01:00June 18th, 2018|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

The Royal Mint's next big thing? Paddington Bear is 60 and a new coin range celebrates. The Royal Mint had a hit with its Tales of Peter Rabbit coins, with three series of four coins issued from 2016-2018, but inevitably there has been a slowing of interest. Sure that the core concept of a 50 pence coin range celebrating popular literary icons is still sound, the mint [...]

February, 2018

Hugely popular Beatrix Potter series back for a third year with four new British coins

By |2018-02-20T12:18:54+00:00February 20th, 2018|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Hugely popular Beatrix Potter series back for a third year with four new British coins Four coins were released in 2016 celebrating the iconic Tales of Peter Rabbit by the author Beatrix Potter and they became what can only be described as a massive hit. Selling out quickly and bringing the Royal Mint website to its knees, the coins returned again in 2017 with four new entrants. [...]

April, 2017

Royal Mints smash-hit Beatrix Potter 50p coin series is back with four new characters

By |2017-04-03T18:38:32+01:00April 3rd, 2017|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Royal Mints smash-hit Beatrix Potter 50p coin series is back with four new characters After the smash-hit launch of the seven-sided fifty-pence coin for 2016 themed around 150 years since the birth of celebrated childrens author Beatrix Potter early last year, it comes as no surporise that the Royal Mint has revisited the franchise for a second year. Other than the coin subjects, the designs remain exactly [...]

January, 2017

Let’s start the year with a look at the Royal Mints 2017 themed circulating currency designs

By |2017-01-01T09:35:31+00:00January 1st, 2017|Categories: Bi-Metallic, Event, History, Gold, People, Science, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Let's start the year with a look at the Royal Mints 2017 themed circulating currency designs. In an impecable bit of timing, the Royal Mint has announced its new themed designs for British circulating and general commemorative currency for 2017. Obviously the big news is the arrival of an all-new bi-metallic £1 coin, now with 12-sides instead of being round. For our purposes however, the new [...]

March, 2016

Beatrix Potter a hit for the Royal Mint with more coins in the 50p series to follow

By |2016-11-05T06:31:09+00:00March 30th, 2016|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

The Royal Mint always release a good selection of anniversary commemoratives every year.  With a history as long and rich as Britain's, the mint is spoilt for choice on subject matter and the 2016 range is a good case in point. Subjects as wide-ranging as the 950th Anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, the 350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of London, the 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, and the [...]

October, 2019

Wallace and Gromit are the latest classic characters to join the Royal Mint’s ever expanding range

By |2019-10-28T22:00:52+00:00October 29th, 2019|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Movies & TV, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Wallace and Gromit are the latest classic characters to join the Royal Mint’s ever expanding range Beatrix Potter, the Gruffalo, Paddington, and the Snowman are all classics of children's literature and motion media that have enraptured people for decades. What they also have in common is appearing on a shiny piece of metal with the Queens head on the back. Each of these icons has been the subject of [...]

January, 2019

POTTERY OF THE WORLD (2018) by the Mint of Poland

By |2021-10-30T21:29:19+01:00January 27th, 2019|Categories: , |

2018 POTTERY OF THE WORLD by the Mint of Poland Back in the latter half of 2015, the Mint of Poland debuted a very unusual coin targeted at lovers of porcelain. As its base it took one of the mints regular 17.5 gram proof silver coins and attached to its front a tiny miniature replica of the extraordinarily expensive Qianlong Vase. Specially fired by a porcelain factory based in Cmielow, Poland, it [...]

November, 2018

Armenia and the Mint of Poland expand porcelain coin range with innovative new series

By |2018-11-14T21:25:24+00:00November 14th, 2018|Categories: Art & Literature, Coloured, Armenia, Inserts, Silver, Mint of Poland|

Armenia and the Mint of Poland expand porcelain coin range with innovative new series Back in the latter half of 2015, the Mint of Poland debuted a very unusual coin targeted at lovers of porcelain. As its base it took one of the mints regular 17.5 gram proof silver coins and attached to its front a tiny miniature replica of the extraordinarily expensive Qianlong Vase. Specially fired [...]

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