UPS refused to deliver my gold coin from Belgium unless I paid £368 in taxes

I recently ordered a Queen’s Beasts 1oz gold coin from a company based in Belgium for £1,760 and it was dispatched using UPS. After a few false emails telling me it was going to be delivered, my wife waited in all day for it not to arrive. Later that night, I received an email from … Read more

Ultra-rare gold coin from King Edward VIII’s short-lived reign sells for a world record £1.65million

Ultra-rare gold coin from King Edward VIII’s short-lived reign sells for a world record £1.65million The coin with the controversial monarch’s bust was never put into circulation The trial coin sparked a bidding war when it went under the hammer in Dallas Previous record for most expensive British coin sold was for a king William … Read more

Ultra-rare gold coin from King Edward VIII’s short-lived reign sells for a world record £1.65million

Ultra-rare gold coin from King Edward VIII’s short-lived reign sells for a world record £1.65million The coin with the controversial monarch’s bust was never put into circulation The trial coin sparked a bidding war when it went under the hammer in Dallas Previous record for most expensive British coin sold was for a king William … Read more

Tesla gives Elon Musk the new title of Technoking and dubs CFO the Master of Coin

Elon Musk crowns himself as ‘Technoking of Tesla’ in new regulatory filing and dubs his CFO the ‘Master of Coin’ Cryptic SEC filing on Monday grants new titles to CEO Elon Musk and his CFO By Keith Griffith For Dailymail.com and Reuters Published: 12:51 GMT, 15 March 2021 | Updated: 12:53 GMT, 15 March 2021 … Read more

Exceptionally rare £5 gold coin made for Edward VIII’s short-lived reign tipped to sell for over £1m

An exceptionally rare gold coin for King Edward VIII’s short-lived reign is tipped to sell for more than £1million. The £5 coin with a bust of the controversial monarch on one side was struck but never put into circulation as he abdicated after just 11 months on the throne. It is one of only three … Read more

Exceptionally rare £5 gold coin made for Edward VIII’s short-lived reign tipped to sell for over £1m

An exceptionally rare gold coin for King Edward VIII’s short-lived reign is tipped to sell for more than £1million. The £5 coin with a bust of the controversial monarch on one side was struck but never put into circulation as he abdicated after just 11 months on the throne. It is one of only three … Read more

Jacob Rees-Mogg urges Royal Mint to produce a special coin for Captain Sir Tom Moore 

Jacob Rees-Mogg urges the Royal Mint to produce a special coin in honour of ‘remarkable national treasure’ Captain Sir Tom Moore NHS fundraiser and WWII veteran Captain Sir Tom Moore died on Tuesday Last night Boris Johnson led a clap for the 100-year-old and healthcare workers Jacob Rees-Mogg has urged Royal Mint to honour him … Read more

Chinese coin hints at medieval trade between England and the Far East

An eleventh-century Chinese coin unearthed in Hampshire provides new evidence of a bustling trade in luxury goods from the Far East more than 700 years ago. The copper coin, which was found at Buriton, Hampshire, around nine miles from the coast, weighs 0.12 ounces (3.6g) and has a diameter of just under an inch (25mm).  Researchers … Read more

Snowman 50p: Royal Mint launches third version of the coin

The Royal Mint has started the countdown to Christmas by launching a new range of festive 50p coins featuring the characters from the iconic film The Snowman. It means the titular character from the 1982 movie and his friend James have found themselves on a Christmas coin for the third successive year, after the Mint … Read more