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April 2, 2026
The Royal Mint remains at the centre of one of Britain’s oldest ceremonial traditions, producing the distinctive silver coins distributed each year during the Royal Maundy service held on Maundy...
From Canadian Coin News
April 1, 2026 | Featured
In the 1570s and 80s Portugal had built up a trade monopoly with the East. This was undermined in the 1590s by two works published by the Dutch geographer Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. Translations of...
From Coins and UK
March 24, 2026 | Featured
The Spice Girls are the latest artists to join The Royal Mint s ongoing Music Legends coin series, celebrating the greatest singers and songwriters in British history. The series, which has...
From Coins and UK
March 23, 2026
The Royal Mint has unveiled its 2026 Britannia proof coin design, which celebrates Britannia as a figure of strength and resilience. Designed by American coin designer Emily Damstra, the new reverse...
From The Reading Room
March 18, 2026 | Featured
The collection was assembled by Dr William Conte, an American geneticist and a leading authority on Norman coinage. Dr Conte s aim was to create a representative reference collection of coins in the...
From Coins and UK
March 17, 2026
The Royal Mint has unveiled a new commemorative coin range marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Queen Elizabeth II, a monarch whose image appeared on Canadian coinage for seven decades.
From Canadian Coin News
March 14, 2026
As one news outlet put it, British bank notes will soon be saying, Goodbye Winston Churchill, hello beavers. The Bank of England has announced that native wildlife will replace historical figures on...
From The Reading Room
March 13, 2026
To celebrate the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, who died on March 30, 2002, the Royal Mint has struck an official £5 coin.
From Coins and UK
March 12, 2026
The Royal Mint has revealed the UKs brainiest regions, as new data shows where thousands of puzzle lovers and collectors have joined The Great British Treasure Hunt.
From Royal Mint
March 12, 2026
The U.K.’s Royal Mint has introduced the 2026 Proof Britannia coin, featuring a new artistic interpretation of Britain’s enduring national symbol. The design highlights Britannia as a figure of...
From Canadian Coin News
March 3, 2026
If you really really really wanna own a piece of pop history, you better make it fast. The Royal Mint is celebrating 30 years of iconic Girl Power with an official Spice Girls coin, honouring the...
From Royal Mint
February 19, 2026
The nation's most iconic prankster has broken out of the pages and landed on an official UK collectable 50p. The Royal Mint in collaboration with Beano have today unveiled a brand new 50p coin...
From Royal Mint
February 11, 2026 | Featured
To celebrate the 300th anniversary (tercentenary) of the Bill of Rights and Claim of Rights, the Mint released commemorative 2 pounds coins in 1989 struck in nickel-brass and proof silver pedfort...
From Coins and UK