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 [...]
The Royal Mint continues in its quest to distil all of British history and culture down to its 50 pence coin range with the addition of a new coin featuring the most famous work of Australian-British author Pamela Lyndon Travers, 'Mary Poppins'. As always with the Royal Mint, this is all about the literary origins, and has [...]
Today, we're going to be using our Quicklooks to catch up on some of the new bullion releases, and the first of them is the ninth issue in The Royal Mint's 'Myths & Legends' range. This purportedly 12-coin series is divided into four groups of three coins, (although it's possible it may stop at this ninth issue, after [...]
Tudor Beasts adds its eighth of ten designs with the arrival of the Greyhound of Richmond in gold and silver proof form Tudor Beasts returns today with the eighth of ten designs in this classic heraldic series of coins from the Royal Mint. Designed by David Lawrence, they're based on statues (King’s Beasts) that adorn the Moat [...]
The Royal Air Force display team, The Red Arrows, is celebrated on the Royal Mints new range of gold and silver coins Lots of us have awesome memories of watching air displays, often topped off by a national team of pilots, flying formations with incredible skill. For Brits, as well as many around the world, that aerobatic [...]
Keep an eye on the Royal Mint's 1984-inspired George Orwell coin, because it will be keeping an eye on you "A hugely talented writer and visionary thinker, George Orwell is best known for his critically acclaimed novels Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949). One of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century, Orwell possessed [...]
The Royal Mint reissues the UK/US Special Relationship 'The British Lion & American Eagle' bullion coin range in gold and silver for 2025 Last year, the Royal Mint employed the talents of iconic ex-US Mint coin artist, John Mercanti, to design a new coin range celebrating the historic relationship between the United States of America, and [...]
The Town-class cruiser, and famous museum ship, HMS Belfast, is showcased on the Royal Mint's latest gold and silver coin Displacing 11,550 tons, and reaching 166.99 metres in length, the Town-class light cruiser, HMS Belfast, has become an icon of the modern London experience, sitting anchored close to Tower Bridge, and the Tower of London, as [...]
The Royal Mint adds a ninth British star to their Music Legends series, and it's the legendary ex-Beatle, Paul McCartney The Royal Mints popular Music Legends range continues today with the launch of the ninth in the series to date. A wide range of proof formats make up the series, in both gold and silver, [...]
It's animals all round for our latest bullion coin round-up (Week 46, 2024) A day late, as I spent most of yesterday updating guides and profiles (and losing the will to live in the process...), here's our fortnightly look at new bullion coins. There are just the four this week, but a decent variety nevertheless, [...]
