The Royal Mint has launched a new £5 coin to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the British Red Cross. The coin, designed by Henry Gray, celebrates the organisation’s work in the UK and globally as part of the international Red Cross movement and features overlapping lines and a map of …
Read More »New 50p honours woman who captured X-ray of DNA for first time
A commemorative 50p coin has been launched in honour of British chemist Rosalind Franklin, ahead of what would have been her 100th birthday. The Royal Mint coin includes Franklin’s name along with Photograph 51, referencing the groundbreaking X-ray diffraction image of DNA she captured in 1952 with scientist Raymond Gosling …
Read More »Royal Mail postie is a hit with cheeky note pushed through customer’s door
Every day they plod up and down streets delivering letters and parcels to our homes so your local postal worker probably knows a thing or two about front door designs. But one postie has gone down a storm on Facebook with his cheeky paint advice for one householder, reports PlymouthLive. …
Read More »Royal Mail postie is a hit with cheeky note pushed through customer’s door
Every day they plod up and down streets delivering letters and parcels to our homes so your local postal worker probably knows a thing or two about front door designs. But one postie has gone down a storm on Facebook with his cheeky paint advice for one householder, reports PlymouthLive. …
Read More »The last ever Peter Rabbit 50p coin has been released
The famous children’s stories featuring a naughty rabbit has now a final and complete set of collectible coins. After Jemima Puddle Duck, Tom Kitten and Jeremy Fisher, the little rabbit has now a fifth coin in his image via the Royal Mint website. The new coin shows him sneaking under …
Read More »UK hand-gel producer explains why it has doubled its prices
A hand gel producer that has received online abuse over its price hikes says the cost of some of the raw ingredients have shot up 700 per cent since the coronavirus outbreak. Staff at Jennychem, a British industrial chemicals firm, have been labelled “crooks” and “parasites” for doubling the price …
Read More »Range of commemorative 50p coins featuring dinosaurs set to be released
A range of commemorative 50p coins featuring dinosaurs is set to be released by the Royal Mint. The collection is to mark Britain’s contribution to discovering the prehistoric creatures. The iguanodon 50p pieces go on sale next month (Image: The Royal Mint/PA Wire) The Royal Mint and Natural History Museum …
Read More »Simple Royal Mint trick people are using to turn 10p into £12
Visitors to the Royal Mint have discovered a simple trick that lets them turn any 10p into £12. The hack involves the special 10ps released months ago – each with a different letter of the alphabet. And the mint lets your swap any old 10p for one of the special …
Read More »Rare Paddington Bear 50p coin sells for hundreds of pounds on eBay
A rare Paddington Bear Tower of London 50p coin has sold on eBay for £300. The 50p – which has an engraving of the children’s character standing in front of the London landmark – was first released less than a year ago, in August 2019. The rare coin sold for …
Read More »Rare 2p coin sells for £485
A rare ‘silver’ two pence coin struck in error by the Royal Mint has sold for £485 – 24,250 times its face value. The seller, from Granton, Edinburgh, posted the silver-coloured coin on online marketplace Gumtree with the lofty asking price. It was sold this morning (January 3) to a …
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