Coin Articles

All About Designing Coinage – An Interview With Matt Dent

{ WWF by Matt Dent }   Matt Dent is one of our most respected modern coin designers.  Now thirty-eight years old, he has already made quite an impression on the business of numismatics.  His most well-known designs here in the UK are the WWF fifty pence and the Charles Dickens two pound coin.  He …

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Adding Depth – The Coins of John W. Mills

Labelling John W. Mills as a ‘coin designer’ would be on par with referring to Da Vinci as ‘that guy who did the Mona Lisa’.  It would be rather like latching onto about one percent of an artist’s creative worth and missing out completely on everything else.  Unfortunately, with a limited amount of space in …

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Frankenstein - Artwork by Frederick Cooper

Mary Had a Little Monster

There have been all manner of commemorative coins over the years and something to suit just about anyone’s taste; right from sports, wars and events to locations, engineers and explorers.  However, up until this point in time, we have never had a coin based on one of the most infamous faces in Gothic literature.

Quirky Facts About Coins

  Just as a lot of folk don’t realise that the Queen’s head is actually the front of a coin, there is far more currency-related trivia to discover.  Test your numismatic knowledge by reading through this article and seeing just how many of these fun and funky facts you are aware of….

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