The Royal Mint joins MDM in marking the 90th anniversary of seminal board game, Monopoly, with gold and silver coins Monopoly, either a fun game of economics, or a mean-spirited take on capitalism, has hit its 90th birthday in its current form, itself pre-dated by the inspiration for it, ‘The Landlord’s Game’, created in 1903 [...]
The Royal Mint debuts its five-issue 'Portraits of a Queen' coin series, and celebrates the incredible voyage of the RRS Discovery The Royal Mint has a busy month in September, with some new series, one-offs, and continuations of existing, ongoing ranges. We're taking a look at the two latest issues, the former of which, RRS Discovery, [...]
The lunar flood continues with the Royal Mint debut of its latest Shēngxiào issue for the Year of the Horse Next up on the major lunar coin front is The Royal Mint, with today's launch of their latest Shēngxiào coin, obviously for the Year of the Horse. We've already had the Perth Mint, and Numistrade [...]
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 [...]
