The Royal Mint marks 150 years of football's legendary FA Cup with a new coin range in silver and gold Without question, one of the premier football tournaments in the world, and the oldest, the FA Cup is celebrating one and a half centuries since its inception. From humble beginnings in the Victorian era, it's [...]
The obverse effigy of Britain's 'Gothic Crown' becomes the reverse of the latest 'Great Engravers' coin from the Royal Mint The third of the Royal Mint's impressive, and immensely popular 'Great Engravers' series, debuted late last year, and updated the classic Gothic Crown coin of 1847. If you're wondering why, just nine weeks later, we're seeing [...]
The Royal Mint launches the first in a five-year series of updated historical designs called the British Monarchs Collection This is one of those releases we always look forward to. The Royal Mint has debuted a new multi-year programme of coins tapping into Britain's rich history, in the same vein as recent numismatic hits like the [...]
It's that time of the year again. The Royal Mint releases images of its 2022 circulating currency designs An earlier than usual look at the Royal Mint's proof sets for the year (they go on sale next week), and it's another selection of themes encompassing royalty, science, personalities, and events. There are a pair of seven-sided [...]
The Royal Mint's retrospective of William Wyon continues with Gothic Crown, the third Great Engravers release After the juggernaut performance of the first two 'Great Engravers' coins, the third in the series has some giant-sized shoes to fill. William Wyon continues to provide the inspiration for the series, although this time he engraved a design [...]
The Royal Mint kicks off its epic 'Queen's Platinum Jubilee Collection' with an all-new design for the classic Sovereign We rarely get excited when a new Sovereign coin drops, just as we don't when the annual Maple Leaf, Philharmonic or American Eagle release comes around, but occasionally, the Royal Mint does something to commemorate a royal event, [...]
Mahatma Gandhi is celebrated by a new Royal Mint coin on the 75th anniversary of Indian independence Once considered the jewel of the British Empire, by the end of the Second World War, it was clear that there was little appetite in Britain for further conflict, and popular opinion had moved heavily toward the Independence of [...]
Just a quick heads-up that the Royal Mint will be issuing the last of the second trio of coins in their three-year, nine-coin series of fifty pence proof coins celebrating Winnie the Pooh. We know the gold ones in particular are very quick sellers , hence the reminder. We've already covered this series in more detail for [...]
The Snowman is back at the Royal Mint with a new range of coins and more Now a perennial fixture on the Royal Mint's release schedule, Raymond Brigg's 'The Snowman' is back for a fourth successive annual release. Part of the mints ever growing fifty pence media range, this one is quite a bit more restrained [...]
Innovation in Science continues its look at boundary-pushing scientists from history with the discoverer of Insulin The Royal Mint’s ‘Innovation in Science’ series of fifty pence coins follows John Logic Baird, Stephen Hawking, Rosalind Franklin, and Charles Babbage with a giant event in medical science, the discovery of Insulin. Dr John Macleod, Sir Frederick Banting, Dr [...]
