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History

Timeline

The Royal Mint story

• Tower of London

• Tower Hill

• Llantrisant

Making money

• The Middle Ages

• The Early-Modern period

• The Modern Age

• Making blanks

• Making dies

• Striking coins

• A short film on how coins are made

People

• Artists

• Christopher Ironside

• William Wyon

• Benedetto Pistrucci

• The talent and the temperament

• Humphrey Paget

• Arnold Machin

• • Meeting and Remembering
    a Man Named Machin

  Mary Milner Dickens

• James Butler

• The Making of the Great Seal

• Mint officials

• Isaac Newton

• William Wellesley Pole

• Charles Fremantle

• Family history

• Can you identify these people?

Coins

British coins:

Currrent coins

• Five pound coin

• Two pound coin

• One pound coin

• Fifty pence coin

• Twenty pence coin

• Ten pence coin

• Five pence coin

• Two pence coin

• One penny coin

• London 2012 coins

Royal Mint Museum Mintage Figures (39 KB)

All Change: Decimalisation

Art and design

• The royal portrait

• Double portraits on the coinage

Old denominations

• Crown

• Half-crown

• Florin

• Demise of the florin

• Shilling

Requiem for the shilling

• Sixpence

• Threepence

• Penny

  • Cartwheel penny

• Halfpenny and farthing

• Fractional farthings

• Maundy Money

Pounds, shillings & pence

 

Overseas coins:

Country profiles

• Iceland

• Jordan

• Uruguay

The collection today

Collection highlights

• Coins

• The Una and the Lion
  five-pound piece

• Canadian silver dollar of 1911

• 1933 penny

• Coinage portrait of Edward VIII

• Medals

  • The China War Medal

  • Elizabethan recoinage medal

  • Medal of Sir Joseph Banks

  • An unusual Abyssinia Medal

  • Medals and the Royal Mint

• Seals

• Royal Mint seal

• Palestine seal

• Great Seal of the Realm

• Artwork and plaster models

• Pistrucci’s jasper cameos

• Great Exhibition plaster model

• Bawden drawings for the decimal coinage

• Wax model of Britannia by William Wyon

• Master tools and dies

• Cromwell crown die

• Portrait punch of Charles II

• Waterloo Medal dies

• Minting equipment

• Nineteenth-century strip gauge

• Coin counting machine

• Reducing machine

• Trial plates and weights

• Trial plate or ingot

• Henry VIII silver trial plate

• Queen Anne weights

• Miscellaneous

• Ivory coach pass

• First World War posters

• Sculpture by Humphrey Paget

Collection timeline

Recent acquisitions

Collection online

Library and archive

• The library of Sarah Sophia Banks

• The Waterloo Medal Roll

Photographic and film collection

• Postcard collection

• Photographic collection

• Film collection

A Living Collection (2772 KB)

Exhibitions and events

Exhibitions

• Coins and Kings, Tower of London

• Power House, Tower of London

• Hands on History, Tower of London

• Ashmolean Museum

• The First World War, Royal Mint Visitor Reception

Online exhibitions

• St George and the Dragon

Exhibitions archive

• Eric Gill: Public and Private Art

Lectures

Education and learning

• Schools and colleges

• Activities and lesson plans

• Onsite visits

• Outreach projects

• Adult Learning

• Lectures

• Research

• Family learning

• Latest resources

About the Museum

• Contact us

• Historical and coinage advice

• Research

• Royal Mint Advisory Committee

RMAC Annual Report 2011-12 (900 KB)

RMAC Annual Report 2010-11 (431 KB)

• Trustees

• FAQs

• Royal Mint Museum Annual Report 2011-12 (134 KB)

  Royal Mint Museum Annual Report 2009-11 (157 KB)

News

• News 2013

• News 2012

• News 2011

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