{Category Archives} British Coins
Royal Mint Issues 2008 UK £5 Gold Brilliant Uncirculated Coin - Coin News
Aug 13 at 10:10pm
The British Royal Mint launched brilliant uncirculated 2008 United Kingdom £5 Gold Coins this week and announced that they would have an extremely low mintage of 750. The annual issued coins are struck in 22 carat gold with each measuring an impressive 36.02 millimetres in diameter.
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2008 Britannia coins released by Royal Mint - Coin News
Jul 25 at 9:09pm
A new elegant Britannia design adorns freshly minted 2008 United Kingdom silver and gold collector coins launched by The Royal Mint. The bullion proof coins bear a standing portrait of Britannia, incorporating the motifs of the lighthouse, the trident, the shield and the helmet, as waves crash in the background.
“She [Britannia] almost appears to form part of the sea that surrounds and protects the British Isles.”
The new design rendered by John Bergdahl is the latest depiction of Britannia, and the seventh in the series since it was introduced in 1987.
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Royal Mint’s Queen Elizabeth Piedfort Platinum Coin - CoinNews
Jun 20 at 11:11pm
The British Royal Mint has announced the sale of the extremely limited 2008 UK Queen Elizabeth I £5 Piedfort Platinum Proof Coin, and only days after releasing the four-coin silver proof Piedforts.
The platinum coin, like its sister silver version, has the piedfort-style double weight and thickness. It’s on sale for a whopping £5250 (~$10,264 USD). Too high? Set aside the coin’s beauty and consider only its limited 150 issuance and 3 ounce platinum content. You might just reconsider.
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Unique, unrecorded 1863 Penny sold for a record £17,500 - Tennants Auctioneers
May 27 at 11:11am
In a sale totalling £176,000, lot 190, a unique and unrecorded 1863 English Penny with a die number 5 below the date, was sold in Tennants Auctioneers specialist Coin Sale in Leyburn, North Yorkshire on Wednesday, 21st May 2008 for a record £17,500 plus buyers premium. It was sold to a private collector from Scotland.
In the early 1860’s the Mint introduced numbering dies on a number of coins, although the purpose of this remains unclear. Die numbers 2, 3 and 4 have already been recorded by Michael Freeman in ‘The Bronze Coinage of Britain’ and Michael Gouby in ‘The British Bronze Penny’, however a penny with a number 5 die number has so far not been recorded.
This coin had been inspected by Royal Mint authorities including the Chief Engraver, who shared the view that the figure beneath the date was indeed a 5, thus making this find numismatically important.
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Britian’s new coin designs - NumisMaster
May 14 at 10:10am
Domestic tabloid newspapers slam them. The daughter of the designer of Britain’s soon-to-be former coinage has bad mouthed them. There are predictions tourists will be confused by them, but Great Britain is about to go forward with its new coin designs despite outcries from some circles against the upcoming changes.
The April 22 German newspaper Der Spiegel made a good point that the first modernization of Great Britain’s coin designs in about a half century “reaffirms the country’s determination not to adopt the euro single currency any time soon.”
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