Every Breath You Take.. Legendary British band 'The Police' are the next icons in the Royal Mint's Music Legends series It wasn't even a month ago that the Royal Mint added Dame Shirley Bassey to its Music Legends series, joining Queen, Elton John, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, and The Who, in what is a veritable [...]
Star Wars comes to the home of the Empire! The Royal Mint debuts the famous droids on three coins (UPDATED) In what is very surprising news, the Royal Mint here in the UK is debuting the first in a new range of Star Wars coins. The franchise has a long association with the UK, with the original [...]
The Royal Mint's celebration of British Music Legends continues with Dame Shirley Bassey, the sixth in the series With a line-up to date that has included such luminaries as Queen, Elton John, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, and The Who., the Royal Mint's 'Music Legends' series more than lives up to its name. The sixth coin [...]
The Royal Mint launches the full Sovereign Collection to celebrate His Majesty The King’s Coronation A quick heads-up that today sees the debut of another special Sovereign, a long-running icon of the numismatic world. We see a few of these, as the Royal Mint often uses special variants to denote historic events, and it doesn't get [...]
The seventh in the Royal Mint's 'British Monarchs' series adds the Charles II portrait by legendary engraver John Roettiers Release number seven in the Royal Mint's 21-coin, 5-year 'British Monarchs Collection', welcomes Charles II, joining Charles I and III in appearing on a coin in the series, although the latter in just obverse effigy form. A [...]
We know the Sovereign is a real collector favourite, with special variants snapped up quickly, so the news that the Royal Mint will strike a special limited run on 06 May, the day of the coronation of King Charles II, will no doubt cause a buying frenzy, especially with its crowned effigy on the obverse. Spec-wise it's a [...]
The Royal Mint reveals its celebratory coronation range in gold and silver ahead of the Coronation on 6 May With the coronation of King Charles III less than a month away, it was clear that the Royal Mint wasn't going to let an event so rare and important pass without numismatic commemoration. Today sees the unveiling [...]
Myths and Legends at the Royal Mint continues with the wizard Merlin, the second in the Arthurian Legend subseries Earlier this year, the Royal Mint's Myths's and Legends bullion coin series made a couple of big changes, moving from the legend of Robin Hood to the legend of Camelot for its next trilogy of releases, and also [...]
The Royal Mint wraps up its four-coin tribute to Harry Potter with a view of the legendary school, Hogwart's Today sees the Royal Mint wrap up its four-coin series of coins celebrating the 25th anniversary of J. K. Rowling's ultra-popular Harry Potter novels, specifically the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. We've already seen [...]
The Royal Mint's 'Great Engravers' returns with a fifth issue, and it's the Petition Crown, a real British numismatic rarityt The fifth in the Royal Mint's hit 'Great Engravers' series features a reproduction of a coin with an almost mythical reputation. The Petition Crown, A pattern coin designed in 1663 by Thomas Simon, a noted [...]
