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 Red Dragon of Wales is the third Royal Mint bullion release in the Queen's Beasts series The third of the Royal Mints superb Queen's Beasts silver and gold bullion coins has launched and this time it's the Red Dragon of Wales. Designed by Jody Clark, who also provided the effigy of [...]
Nugget: Royal Mint release proof precious metal versions of its new King Canute coin We covered the Royal Mints new themed circulating currency last week and now the first of them has already surfaced in proof precious metal form. King Canute (or Cnut) was king of Denmark, England and Norway (the [...]
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 [...]
Sovereign bullion coin launched for the 200th anniversary year of Pistrucci's design. It's no surprise that a Sovereign gold bullion coin would appear from the Royal Mint this year, it's a regular occurance, but with the 200th anniversary of Benedetto Pistrucci's ultra-iconic St. George and the Dragon design, the expectation was that [...]
Queens Beasts Lion coin now available in a full range of gold and silver proof sizes The Royal Mint surprised us all earlier this year when it debuted a quite beautiful new bullion coin series called The Queens Beasts. To be released two per year, the coins were available in 2oz silver [...]
Full images of the Royal Mints stunning new Queens Beasts bullion coins. As promised, below resides some high quality images of the superb new bullion coin from the Royal Mint. The second in the ten-coin Queens Beasts series, the coin is designed by one of the best in the market today, [...]
Superb Queens Beasts gold and silver bullion coins back for 2017 with the Griffin For us, the best designed bullion coin of last year was the surprise debut of the first in a new series called Queens Beasts from the Royal Mint. Designed by Jody Clark, rising star at the mint and [...]
New radiating background design for Britannia bullion coins is confirmed. After noticing what we thought was a change to the bullion Britannia in a press photo some weeks ago, we can now confirm that the radiating 'sunburst' pattern in the background of the lunar privy Britannia coin is to be rolled [...]
2017 Sovereign recreates the 200 year old ultra-iconic Pistrucci original It's Sovereign time again at the Royal Mint and we're fortunate enough to be in one of those very rare years when the coin design reverts away from the reproduction of Benedetto Pistrucci's ultra-iconic design from the 1821 original. [...]
