After 25 years in circulation, the UK £2 coin has become a hidden treasure within our everyday change, often minted in limited quantities. Here are some of the rarest £2 coins to be produced by The Royal Mint from the historical single-coloured nickel brass coins to the bi-metallic ...
As this 2023 coin has a low mintage of 200,000 coins, this makes it even rarer than the beloved 2009 Kew Gardens UK 50p coin. 2. Kew Gardens 2009 210,000 Minted The famous Kew Gardens 50p held its place as the rarest 50p coin in circulation for the better part of 14 years after ...
You need to alloy them with a trace of copper or some other metal to make them durable enough for coins or jewelry. Not so with rhenium, iridium, and rhodium. Though rhenium is the hardest and boasts the highest melting point (3186°C or 5767°F), iridium isn’t far behind in those...
The penny from 1920 is the rarest and most collectable of them all. The coin was also made in a large number of different versions, referred to as “types”. The Type 9 was unusual in that the obverse side had the text (or “legend”) in a square. But all the kookaburra coins are...
Early in the 19thcentury, many Chinese coins were minted overseas in places like Philadelphia in the US, Birmingham in the UK, and Germany. This brass 50 cents coin was struck from dies made by Otto Beh, a German manufacturer based in the town of Esslingen. ...
"The presence of a denarius in a hoard mainly comprised of siliquae is close to unique in Britain," he said. Mr Reavill explained that when the Roman left Britain they took with them their coinage monetary system the people that were left in the UK could no lo...