Captain Cook, one of the world's greatest explorers, stars on new annual British coin series Responsible for expanding our knowledge of the world through some incredible voyages of discovery, Captain James Cook FRS is one of the greatest of the worlds explorers. Through a series of famous voyages in the mid-late eighteenth [...]
Royal Mint launch two new coin designs for the Queens Sapphire Coronation celebrations It has been a busy couple of years for Royal coin collectors with a whole string of landmark events around Queen Elizabeth II's groundbreaking reign. She has already become the longest reigning British monarch and recently celebrated her 90th [...]
Royal Mint expands its bullion coin offerings with a gold Two Dragons and the third silver Landmarks of Britain The Royal Mint is increasing its presence in the international gold and silver bullion coin markets with yet more new issues. Uncharacteristically for the mint, the last couple of years has seen a [...]
The Royal Mint concludes its five-year World War I commemorations with poignant Armistice coins The Royal Mint are starting to wrap up their commemorations of the First World War after an extensive five-year program starting in 2014. This year marks the centenary of the end of the 'war to end all wars', [...]
Chinese and Welsh Dragons combine for the Royal Mint's latest bullion coin It's clear the Royal Mint has big plans for its bullion coin offerings, going from the relatively limited Britannia and Sovereign ranges of a few years ago to a whole plethora of different issues available today. With a lunar range [...]
The Royal Air Force is a century old and the Royal Mint remembers with a new £2 coin range It isn't unreasonable to say that the Royal Air Force has played a role so pivotal to world history that it sits in a rarified group of such military units. That's quite an [...]
Royal Mint releases 26 new coins to mark the new 10p coin with an A to Z of Britain It seems the Royal Mint has decided that a five-coin range isn't enough and has gone full blast with a new 26-coin series called The A-Z of Britain. Similar in concept to the [...]
High resolution images of the Royal Mints new Black Bull of Clarence bullion coin variants We covered the release of the new Queens Beasts coin from the Royal Mint a couple of days ago, but we were missing some great images of the ever-popular bullion coin versions. Fortunately, that's now been rectified [...]
Queens Beasts series stays on top of its game with a superb Black Bull of Clarence issue Time for the fourth of the ten-coin Queens Beasts series of coins to make its debut and it's the Black Bull of Clarence. As before, there's a wide range of sizes available in the proof [...]
Royal Mint partner with MTB to debut their first ever tenth-ounce platinum Britannia bullion coin The number of platinum bullion coins on the market continues to rise with the debut of a new variant of the Royal Mint's perennial Philip Nathan designed Britannia bullion coin. At a tenth of [...]
