2020 LUNARS: Royal Mint adds to its Shengxiao series with a new style for the Year of the Rat Now seven years old, the Royal Mints Shēngxiào Collection has always been a slightly eccentric take on the whole Lunar Calendar style of coin. Initially employing British-Chinese artist Wuon-Gean Ho to design the [...]
Paddington Bear is back for the second year with a pair of new Royal Mint releases After a long run of Beatrix Potter coins, the Royal Mint added another iconic British children's character to its repertoire last year with a pair of coins celebrating the 60th birthday of Paddington Bear. Sticking with [...]
Biggest Sovereign variant and the double thickness Piedfort join the Royal Mints 2019 range A perennial fixture on the numismatic calendar, and an absolute icon in the history of coins, the Royal Mint's Sovereign range carrying Benedetto Pistrucci's superb St George and the Dragon design sees the addition of its biggest variant today. The [...]
The greatest seaborne assault in history was 75 years ago today. A look at the coins issued to mark it. Codenamed Operation Neptune, the largest seaborne invasion in history and the start of Operation Overlord took place on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 when a huge Allied force began the liberation of German-occupied [...]
Royal Mint reissues £20 Welsh Dragon silver coin and makes it available online for the first time since 2016 The Royal Mint's controversial £20 coin series has all but vanished except for a single coin released annually that sells in the visitor centre at their Welsh headquarters. A neat, but regurgitated Welsh Dragon [...]
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 [...]
Brilliant physicist Stephen Hawking is celebrated by his homeland on a new Royal Mint black hole coin Last March 14th was a particularly sad day when it was announced that one of the world's greatest visionaries, pProfessor Stephen Hawking, had passed away. In 1961, at the age of just 23, Hawking was [...]
Queens Beasts coin series enters its second half with the launch of the proof Yale of Beaufort range Now six coins into a ten coin range, the Royal Mint's Queens Beasts series today sees the addition of the Yale of Beaufort. A strange 'goat-like' creature, the Yale is depicted by Jody Clark [...]
New UK 1oz gold bullion coin dips into the past design catalogue and pulls out the Royal Arms As if the Britannia, Shengxiao Lunars, Queens Beasts and others aren't prrofthat the Royal Mint are taking the bullion coin market seriously, they've added another design to the portfolio. No silver this time, just a [...]
The Royal Mint's latest frenzy-inducing childrens literature coin release is The Gruffalo Following The Snowman and various Beatrix Potter series, the Royal Mint today launched The Gruffalo. Based on a 2009 childrens book, it joins those previous issues in adorning a seven-sided 50 pence. As before, the primary issue is an 8 gram [...]
