The final issue in The Royal Mint's four-coin Harry Potter series has just launched, and following The Winged Keys, The Black Lake, and The Flying Car, we have The Patronus, continuing the theme of featuring classic scenes from the uber-popular film series, released from 2001 to 2011. Harry Potter has been a giant in modern numismatics, as you [...]
The Royal Mint marks 200 years of the modern railway, with a new £2 coin homage in silver and gold On 27 September 1825, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, situated in northeast England, began operations. The engineering was overseen by the George Stephenson, and his legendary son, Robert, and amongst the many innovations associated with [...]
The Princess Royal is 75 years old, and The Royal Mint celebrates in gold and silver with a new coin Well regarded for her impressive work ethic and lack of scandal, Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, has long been a steady hand in royal circles. The only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, she was born in [...]
Here's a July 2025 round-up of some new silver and gold bullion coin releases from around the globe It's been a few months since our last round-up of new bullion coins, so here's a selection of some of the latest. It isn't comprehensive, as I lack the arm count of an octopus, but they do [...]
A testament to the legacy of British musicians, the Royal Mint's 'Music Legends' range adds its eleventh entrant - Iron Maiden We think it's fair to say that Music Legends, the Royal Mints trawl through the epic popular modern music history of Britain, has been a big success. It debuted in 2020 with 'Queen', and it [...]
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's childrens favourite 'Zog' is the latest British literary classic to be immortalised on a 50p coin The Royal Mint continues its celebration of the popular culture of British with another delve into the world of children's literature. This subject has been a big part of a long succession of coloured, themed [...]
It's time we caught up with The Royal Mint's latest bullion coin and bar releases, headlined by a very cool Battle of Britain bar While our bullion round-ups have tapered off to a trickle these days (honestly, the work compiling them was too much, especially as they were designed to lighten the load), they are [...]
The Royal Mint marks 150 years of iconic London department store, Liberty, with a silver, and gold, coin and medal The Royal Mint has seemingly embraced the more popular culture elements of British life, rather than sticking with the historical, political, and royal genres that have dominated its output over the last few decades. We've had [...]
Music Legends, the numismatic celebration of British music, continues with the Beatles icon, John Lennon The tenth in the Royal Mints long-running Music Legends range continues today with the addition of a quite superb John Lennon design, joining last year's fellow Beatle, Paul McCartney. However, the focus here is on Lennon's solo career, and his [...]
The Royal Mint's 'Queens Beasts Completer' coins make the transition to gold and silver bullion bars From 2016 to 2021, the Royal Mint ran a programme of bullion coins called 'The Queen's Beasts', featuring representations of ten heraldic animals originally sculpted by James Woodford RA for the coronation ceremony of Queen Elizabeth II, held in [...]
