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August 23, 2025
Double Sovereign - 1980 to 2025 - Not intended for circulation
No Sovereigns were struck in the first few years of the decimal era and in 1974, Machin's coinage portrait graced the chief coin of the world for the first time. Interestingly, a 1974 Sovereign was the very last coin to be struck at the premises in Tower Hill, London, before production moved to the 35-acre site in Llantrisant, South Wales.
August 21, 2025
350 Years of the Royal Observatory Greenwich
The Royal Mint released several coins to commemorate the 350 years of the Royal Observatory Greenwich in partnership with the National Maritime Museum. The reverse design, by Henry Gray, depicts several scientific elements that have contributed to some of the historic discoveries made by the Royal Observatory.
August 20, 2025
10 Pence 1968 to 2025 - Price Guide and values
The reverse of the coin, before the Royal Arms, was designed by Christopher Ironside and was a crowned lion (formally, Part of the crest of England, a lion passant guardant royally crowned). A lion passant is walking, with the right fore paw raised and all others on the ground. The smaller coin was issued on 30th September 1992. In October 2023, the King Charles III 10 Pence coin was presented; the coin design features a capercaillie.
August 10, 2025
Shilling 1702 to 1798 - Price Guide and values
The shilling as a coin was introduced at the beginning of the 16th century during the last years of the reign of Henry VII and until the middle of that century was known as a testoon. It was one of the first English coins to bear a real portrait of the monarch instead of the representative portrait which had served for the previous ten centuries.
July 31, 2025
2 Pounds 2010 Florence Nightingale
During the Crimean War Nightingale astounded the world by taking a team of nurses to Constantinople to care for and comfort the ill and critically injured troops. She was relentless in harrying politicians for desperately needed supplies and through her ceaseless labour brought order and cleanliness to the Barrack Hospital at Scutari, becoming known as The Lady with the Lamp as she tended the wounded at night.
