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October, 2020

Royal Mints 2020 Remembrance Day issue marks a centenary since the internment of the Unknown Soldier

By |2020-10-28T00:54:04+00:00October 27th, 2020|Categories: Event, History, Coloured, Military, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Royal Mints 2020 Remembrance Day issue marks a centenary since the internment of the Unknown Warrior It's that most poignant of times again. Remembrance Day marks the incredible sacrifice of those that fell fighting in the Great War, and has become a regular of the numismatic calendar, especially over the last few years, because it's been a century since many of those seminal events took place. This year doesn't mark [...]

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Royal Canadian Mint goes fully dimensional for its 2020 Remembrance Day poppy silver coin

By |2020-10-06T16:42:37+01:00October 6th, 2020|Categories: Culture, History, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

Royal Canadian Mint goes fully dimensional for its 2020 Remembrance Day poppy silver coin Lots of the world's big national mints, as well as a few of the independents, issue a coin to martk Remembrance Day. Over the last few years, we've seen so super designs, sometimes focusing on the poignance of the event, other times on the symbol that has come to represent it - the poppy flower. You all [...]

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October, 2017

The Royal Mint remembers the fallen with its new annual Remembrance Day poppy coin

By |2017-10-20T22:17:01+01:00October 20th, 2017|Categories: Event, History, Coloured, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

The Royal Mint remembers the fallen with its new annual Remembrance Day poppy coin The Royal Mint is finally issuing its first ever official Remembrance Day coin for the United Kingdom after spending years issuing them for Alderney, the Channel Island closest to France. The design or format hasn't really been affected by the change in issuer, although in a very cool touch, a 2.5% donation from [...]

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April, 2017

CIT@TICC: Latest shaped silver coin is a beautiful tribute to Remembrance Day’s iconic poppy

By |2017-05-11T21:39:49+01:00April 28th, 2017|Categories: Event, History, Coloured, Silver, CIT Coin Invest, Cook Islands|

CIT's latest shaped silver coin is a beautiful tribute to Remembrance Day's iconic poppy There's no shortage of Remembrance Day coins released every year, especially over the last couple as we're running through a five-year centenary period for the First World War, but we haven't seen anything quite like Coin Invest Trust's new one.  Ostensibly a less extreme variant of their new shaped coin range (Panda, Skull, [...]

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October, 2015

Alderney issues its latest Remembrance Day coin in poppie-adorned silver and silver piedfort

By |2016-11-05T06:31:38+00:00October 5th, 2015|Categories: Alderney, History, Coloured, Silver, Royal Mint|

After using the 2012 award-winning Emma Noble design in 2012  and 2013, the Royal Mint went with a new piece of art by designer Laura Clancy in 2014 for its annual £5 Remembrance Day coin issued for the island of Alderney. The coins have special significance at the moment as we're currently in the centenary period of the war years from World War I and it's good to see the mint make the effort [...]

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May, 2022

The Royal Mint celebrates the 40th birthday of the Duke of Cambridge with a new coin range in gold and silver

By |2022-05-23T00:02:30+01:00May 23rd, 2022|Categories: Gold, People, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

The Royal Mint celebrates the 40th birthday of the Duke of Cambridge with a new coin range in gold and silver Born on 21 June 1982, just a week after British forces had successfully concluded the Falklands War, and thus at the height of a patriotic fervour in the UK, William Arthur Philip Louis was the first child of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. He immediately became, and remains, the second [...]

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September, 2019

Royal Mint commemorates a century of remembrance for the sacrifices of the First World War multitudes

By |2019-09-11T12:44:15+01:00September 11th, 2019|Categories: Event, History, Coloured, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Royal Mint commemorates a century of remembrance for the sacrifices of the First World War multitudes The Royal Mint's latest Remembrance Day coin is now available and has been issued in a gold variant for the first time. This year marks the 100th time that the Remembrance Day service has been held, starting just one year after the end of what until then had been mankind's greatest conflagration.This [...]

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Canada wraps up its D-Day numismatic commemoration with an extraordinary one-kilo silver coin

By |2019-09-08T23:28:04+01:00September 8th, 2019|Categories: History, Military, Silver, Canada, Royal Canadian Mint|

Canada wraps up its D-Day numismatic commemoration with an extraordinary one-kilo silver coin We've seen a pretty neat selection of coins so far this year that have marked the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings on the French Normandy coast, but few as impressive as this one. Canada has already issued several pieces, but this final issue is the biggest yet, at a full kilo of 0.9999 silver [...]

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November, 2018

Today is the centenary of the Armistice that ended the First World War. The Royal Mint remembers.

By |2018-11-11T12:19:33+00:00November 11th, 2018|Categories: History, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Today is the centenary of the Armistice that ended the First World War. The Royal Mint remembers. The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. A time that has resonated throughout popular conciousness over the last century and the time that the First World War, also called the Great War, came to an end. A brutal war the likes of which had never been [...]

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September, 2017

Poland continues its remembrance of its anti-communist heroes with Witold Pilecki

By |2017-09-22T01:25:38+01:00September 22nd, 2017|Categories: History, Coloured, People, Silver, Narodowy Bank, Poland|

Poland continues its remembrance of its anti-communist heroes with Witold Pilecki With the current tensions in the region, it's of little surprise that the National Bank of Poland is looking to its anti-communist heroes for numismatic inspiration. Just this year we've seen coins commemorating the 1920 Battle of Zadworze, Fighting Solidarity, the WWII Warsaw massacres and the 1982 Battle of Lubin. Prior to all of this was [...]

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September, 2016

Remembrance 2016. Alderney and the Royal Mint issue new silver coins

By |2016-11-05T06:30:27+00:00September 15th, 2016|Categories: Alderney, Event, History, Coloured, Silver, Royal Mint|

Remembrance Day 2016. Alderney and the Royal Mint issue new silver coins Remembrance Day is fast approaching. Observed on 11th November to commemorate the 1918 end of hostilities of the First World War, the memorial is marked by Commonwealth countries to remember the members of their armed forces who died in the line of duty. Because of the poem "In Flanders Fields" written by [...]

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February, 2018

THE ENDURING SOLDIERS (2017-) by National Bank of Poland

By |2024-02-24T21:12:30+00:00February 12th, 2018|Categories: , |

THE ENDURING SOLDIERS by National Bank of Poland Not being afraid to produce long running coin series, the excellent Stanislaw August and History of Polish Coin series being evidence of that, the National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski NBP) has embarked on another epic set of silver coins. With tensions higher than normal between Poland and Russia over the Ukrainian conflict, it seems that they felt it was time [...]

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November, 2017

Palau’s perennial Ounce of Luck coin is upgraded to high-relief with a new flagship design

By |2017-11-13T13:44:12+00:00November 13th, 2017|Categories: Culture, Silver, CIT Coin Invest, Palau|

Palau's perennial Ounce of Luck coin is upgraded to high-relief with a new flagship design The four-leaf clover has been an icon of luck for ages, although nobody is sure how the superstition got started. With only around 1 clover in every 5,000 having four leaves instead of the usual three, you can see how these traditions begin. The first reference to luck might be from an [...]

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July, 2017

Portraits of Britain four-coin set is back for the third time and showcasing seats of power

By |2017-07-13T01:41:45+01:00July 13th, 2017|Categories: Architecture, Coloured, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

Portraits of Britain four-coin set is back for the third time and showcasing seats of power Back for its third set in four years, the Royal Mint have announced the release of Portraits of Britain 3. As before, it's a four coin set showcasing elements of Britain and the British Isles, with each year having a tight central theme. In 2014, the set depicted some of the [...]

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October, 2015

The Battle of Agincourt remembered in gold and silver 600 years on by the Royal Mint

By |2016-11-05T06:31:38+00:00October 6th, 2015|Categories: History, Gold, Silver, Royal Mint, United Kingdom|

A new pair of coins issued for Alderney have been released by the Royal Mint that commemorate the 600th anniversary of one of the most amazing victories in the history of warfare, the Battle of Agincourt. Wracked by disease and fatigue, heavily outnumbered by an armoured foe, Henry V led an English army in battle against a superior foe and through a combination of skill and luck, decimated them. Writ large in British history, [...]

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