Open this photo in gallery: The exterior of the Royal Canadian Mint in Winnipeg on July 15, 2005.MARIANNE HELM/The Canadian Press U.S. regulators are suing a California company, its chief executive officer and two of its former employees, alleging they participated in a fraudulent scheme to convince customers to cash …
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The Royal Canadian Mint says it’s temporarily laying off 56 employees at its Winnipeg facility. In a statement, the Mint says “prolonged effects of the pandemic and ongoing geopolitical instability” are disrupting global markets, which it says is limiting demand for coins it makes for other countries. It says it …
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In the UK, government contracts worth millions of pounds have been awarded to companies without competitive bidding during the pandemic. Close scrutiny reveals many of the firms have close links to leading figures in Whitehall. The Covid-19 pandemic has meant a miserable year for businesses of every size in every …
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The Royal Australian Mint is scrambling to uncover how somebody managed to steal thousands of unreleased gold coins without raising alarm. Australia’s coin producer had no idea they had been robbed until police officers pulled over a car on January 10 and found 2000 special edition $2 coins inside, along …
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The colourful image on the coin shows three fishermen aboard a boat, staring and gesturing as the ghostly image of a flying saucer appears to crash into a choppy sea. HO/The Canadian Press The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a glow-in-the-dark coin that captures the eerie scene more than 50 …
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Special five-kilogram silver coins produced by the Royal Canadian Mint show the famous schooner the Bluenose with the sky behind it tinted pink, blue and many shades in between. A new technique called ‘plasmonic colouring’ uses pulses of laser light to alter the surface of metals to give them bright …
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