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The Royal Mint has, for the first time in its history, put motorsport on an official UK coin. Launched at 9am on…
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Forty years ago, a disused Beaux Arts railway station on the left bank of the Seine reopened as one of the most…
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In 1783, a French engraver named Augustin Dupré finished a medal that Benjamin Franklin had dreamed up entirely on his own, no…
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The Monnaie de Paris has opened its tribute to the 250th anniversary of American independence, and it has done so by going…
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There is a quiet irony in this release that the marketing copy never quite says out loud. To mark 250 years since…
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A hundred years after a baby named Norma Jeane Mortenson was born in Los Angeles, the woman she became is back on…
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The Royal Mint has released 500 Years of the Crown, a UK £5 range marking half a millennium since the crown was…
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On 11 June 2026, Swissmint releases the first coin in a new four part program, a 20 franc silver special coin titled…
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The Royal Mint has put Wallace, Gromit, Morph and Shaun the Sheep onto legal tender. On 9 June 2026 the Mint launched…
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A century after Antoni Gaudí stepped in front of a Barcelona tram and died days later, the Central Bank of Malta has…
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A century after she was born in London, Elizabeth II is being commemorated by the mint of the country across the Channel.…
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The Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato has done something the Italian state mint rarely does: it has handed a private carmaker…
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The Royal Mint has released the Royal Dragon, the ninth of ten bullion coins in its Royal Tudor Beasts collection and the…
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France’s oldest monetary institution is about to enter the gold investment market in earnest. Monnaie de Paris, which has struck coins from…
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Swissmint released the third coin in its four part “Swiss Lakes” series on 19 March 2026, a 20 franc fine silver special…
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The Austrian Mint has set a June 17 release date for the third instalment of its current 3 Euro programme, “Magical and…
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Swissmint will issue a new 20 franc silver special coin on 11 June 2026 honoring the European Space Agency, and, more pointedly,…
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