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May 7, 2026
The Royal Mint is releasing commemorative £2 coins to celebrate the iconic Duchess of Hamilton locomotive. Built in September 1938 by LMS Crewe Works, the Duchess of Hamilton was a red Coronation...
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May 7, 2026
The Royal Mint is releasing commemorative £2 coins to celebrate the iconic Duchess of Hamilton locomotive. Built in September 1938 by LMS Crewe Works, the Duchess of Hamilton was a red Coronation...
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May 7, 2026
The Royal Mint has unveiled a new £2 coin celebrating the Duchess of Hamilton, one of Britain’s most famous steam locomotives and a standout icon of the country’s railway heritage. Introduced in...
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May 6, 2026
Even some six decades after the last circulating sixpence coins rolled off the presses at the Royal Mint in Great Britain, the allure of the denomination maintains a stronghold in pop culture and...
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April 30, 2026
British artist Tom Charter, the “Pigeon Picasso,” has always admired the common city bird, which serves as the muse for his body of illustrations and designs. When the Bank of England announced that...
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April 30, 2026 | Featured
In February 2018, the Royal Mint marked a significant political milestone on a 2018 50p coin highlighting the incredible moment when the Representation of the People Act 1918 passed through...
From Coins and UK
April 26, 2026
If patience is a virtue, then British detectorist Tim Cox just might be a saint. Nearly 50 years after buying his first metal detector in 1979, the 62-year-old retired truck driver struck paydirt...
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April 20, 2026
The latest update to the two-volume set known as the Standard Catalogue of British Coins puts 2,000 years of British coinage at your fingertips. The books bring together the full evolution of...
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April 15, 2026 | Featured
In 2025, The Royal Mint released a series of coins to celebrate one of the greatest showmen of all time, Freddie Mercury. The coins capture Mercury mid-performance at the height of his powers,...
From Coins and UK
April 15, 2026
The Royal Mint has introduced a new bullion collection celebrating each of the 12 Western zodiac signs. Available in 5g gold and 1-ounce silver bars, each features a unique design by Dominique Holmes...
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April 14, 2026
The Royal Mint has today launched a commemorative £2 coin celebrating 200 years of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). The coin was officially launched at ZSL’s London Zoo, where a giant wooden...
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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...
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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...
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