The Royal Mint's love of childrens classic tales continues with a new Gruffalo coin range It was back in February 2019 that the Royal Mint debuted a fifty-pence coin celebrating the 20th anniversary of the children's book, 'The Gruffalo'. It was the simple tale of a mouse's walk through the woods. In 2005, writer and playwright [...]
The Royal Mint dives into its historical collection with the launch of a stunning new series, 'The Great Seals of the Realm' Before we had cryptography, secure post, or electronic communications, we had seals. Carved into a solid material, originally stone, but later moving to semi-precious materials like jade and ivory, wood, or even gold and [...]
The Royal Mint celebrates the athletes in Team GB and ParalympicsGB with a stylised seven-sided coin in silver and gold The Olympics head to Paris soon, held for the 33rd time in the modern age, and they're joined for the 17th time by the Paralympics. Since 2012, when they were held in London, the Royal [...]
The Royal Mint brushes off the dies for the unstruck Waterloo Medal by Benedetto Pistrucci and produces an elegant new coin Back in 2015, for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, the Royal Mint refreshed the original tooling for the unstruck Battle of Waterloo medal and produced a 250 gram, antique-finished version with a [...]
The Royal Mint employs the talents of Jody Clark for its St George and the Dragon bullion coin range, the first in a new series Able to make a case for itself as being the single most iconic image in numismatics, Benedetto Pistrucci's St George and the Dragon has adorned the British Sovereign bullion coin for [...]
The Royal Mint's seven-issue celebratory journey through six decades of James Bond continues with the 2000s, and Die Another Day The fifth release in the Royal Mint's seven-issue romp through the James Bond movies launches today, and features the 2000s. Each of the seven issues showcases one of the most memorable vehicles from each decade the [...]
City Views, the Royal Mint's numismatic jorney through the world's greatest cities, heads to France to showcase Paris. The third of the Royal Mint's interesting, but low profile 'City Views' series is now available, and after London, and Rome, they've headed over to another hugely important European city, Paris, the capital of France. Each coin in [...]
The Royal Mint's James Bond retrospective continues into the Brosnan-era with the launch of the 90s range Continuing their seven issue romp through the filmography of super-spy, James Bond 007, the Royal Mint has released the fourth coin in the range - the 90s. Each of the seven issues showcases an iconic vehicle from a particular [...]
The Royal Mint launches its eagerly anticipated 2024 Britannia proof range and it's a beautiful piece by a French artist One of the highlights of the numismatic calendar, certainly for the more classical-leaning collector, has been the Royal Mint's proof Britannia range. The series split from the bullion range in 2012, when those coins standardised [...]
The Royal Mint's Music Legends proof coin range continues its look at icons of British Music with George Michael "One of the bestselling musicians of all time, George Michael transitioned from a teen heartthrob as part of pop duo WHAM! Into a global superstar as a solo artist. Decades after their initial release, his hits ‘Careless [...]
