Royal Mint marks two centuries since the Gold Standard was introduced with a proof version of the 2016 gold bullion coin Launched in 2016 to mark the 200th anniversary of Britain creating the gold standard, the Royal Mints gold bullion coin range encompassed a quarter-ounce and a one-ounce carrying the same design. Done by Royal Mint regular, [...]
The Queen's Beasts 'Completer' silver bullion coins finally put in an appearance in 2oz and 1kg form We've already covered the beautiful Queen's Beasts 'Completer' coins in both original proof form, and in the very desirable limited ten-coin sets, so we're not going to go over that again, but the hugely popular silver bullion coin version [...]
The Royal Mint joins with the V&A Museum to celebrate Lewis Carroll's iconic Alice in Wonderland literary classics The literary classic that is Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is no stranger to the coin world. The Perth Mint has issued a very neat coin based on the books, and the New Zealand Mint, through its Disney [...]
Royal Mint bows out of the Queens Beasts series with three collections, including a lower-priced quarter-ounce silver set Launching on Monday, the Royal Mint have rounded out their hugely popular and quite beautiful Jody Clark-penned 'Queen's Beasts' series with a trio of ten coin collections. With the Royal Mint on a seemingly unstoppable roll of hits [...]
Royal Mint celebrates Prince Philip and a life of service to Queen and Country with an Ian Rank Broadley penned coin range On 9 April this year, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, passed away at the ripe old age of 99. Born into the Greek and Danish royal families, he joined the Royal Navy after the [...]
Music Legends: The Who adds bullion coins in gold and silver to the range The Royal Mint's 'Music Legends' series has just seen its fourth issue, this time with British mod sensation, The Who. We covered the proof range just a couple of days ago and there's lots there on the band and the numismatic selection, [...]
Music Legends continues its numismatic journey through British music with mod icons, The Who The Royal Mint's journey through the numismatic music charts continues with seminal 60's band, The Who. The 'Music Legends' series has already had Queen, Elton John, and David Bowie releases, all of which were decent encapsulations of the artists in question, in [...]
The Queen's Beasts - a photo gallery of the one-off ten-kilo gold coin We've already just published our new Queen's Beasts coin article, so we won't go over the details again, but suffice to say, there will be some considerable number of jaws dropping at the sight of this new behemoth. A one-off coin fabricated [...]
The Queen's Beasts are back for a swansong in what may be the series finest hour, and there's bullion to come What could possibly be better than a Queen's Beast coin? How about a Queen's Beasts coin featuring all ten of the iconic symbols of British heraldry. This series from Britain's Royal Mint has been [...]
Peter Rabbit returns to the Royal Mint with a new format and a new visual style It seems Peter isn't ready for the stew yet as the Royal Mint have brought him back for a sixth year of releases, but with all new formats and a refreshed, and no doubt controversial, artistic look. Just the one [...]
