BREAKING NEWS – 50p celebrating 100 years of BBC sold out within 2 hours!

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the BBC and to celebrate, the Royal Mint has released a brand new UK 50p. Over the last century, the British Broadcasting Corporation has been providing information, education and entertainment globally, broadcasting some of the world’s most exciting highs, but has also delivering some of the biggest lows.

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2022 100th Anniversary of the BBC 50p

Developed in partnership with the BBC, the reverse design takes inspiration from the BBC World News logo.

Sold out within 2 hours

The Royal Mint experienced queues of over 6,500 on their website, and in less than 2 hours of release, all premium specifications of the 100th Anniversary of the BBC 50p had completely sold out at the Royal Mint.

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The Royal Mint website queue at 10am

With all gold and silver specifications selling out so quickly at The Royal Mint, demand for the brilliant uncirculated BBC 50p is sure to rise significantly. However, you can still secure it in gold and silver specifications on our website whilst stocks last.


The BBC 50p Range

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Celebrating an incredible 100 years of the British Broadcasting Corporation providing education, information and entertainment to the world with this brand new release. Prices from just £4.99 (+p&p).

Click here to shop the 100th Anniversary of the BBC range >>


New King’s portrait revealed by The Royal Mint

The Royal Mint have revealed the new portrait of King Charles III which will feature on UK coinage.

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The first effigy of King Charles III on a UK 50p obverse

Created by renowned British sculptor Martin Jennings, the effigy has been personally approved by His Majesty. In keeping with tradition, The King’s portrait faces to the left, the opposite direction to Queen Elizabeth II.

It will be used for the very first time on a range of coins paying tribute to the life and reign of the late Queen.

The new range was released at 9am on Monday 3rd October.

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Coin designs from the Queen Elizabeth II memorial range

This is the first time in nearly 70 years that we have had a new monarch on our coins. It is the most significant change to UK coinage since decimalisation in 1971.

The coins are available in several specifications including 50p, £5 and Ounce. Coins will be on sale at The Royal Mint until 31st December 2022.

Shop the first coin portrait of King Charles III here >>

How you can own the new UK Piedfort Sovereign that thousands of collectors will miss out on…

Late last year the UK 2022 Proof Sovereign was released featuring a one-year-only design change to celebrate Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee.

10,500 were made available at 9am on launch day.
By 6pm that very same day they were gone.

That made it the fastest-selling sovereign ever.

But a new UK sovereign could break that record…

Just Released: The UK 2022 Piedfort Sovereign

The special Piedfort edition of the UK 2022 Proof Sovereign has just been released. With an edition limit of just 3,250 less than one-third of the edition limit of its Proof Sovereign counterpart — thousands of collectors wanting to own both are set to miss out.

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Just Released: The UK 2022 Piedfort Sovereign

An extremely rare specification of Sovereign

This is only the third Piedfort Sovereign to be struck by The Royal Mint.

When the first Piedfort Sovereign was released in 2017 to mark the bicentenary of the modern sovereign, it too sold out in just 24 hours.

This new release has an edition limit of 500 less, so another fast sell-out looks guaranteed.

The pinnacle of Royal Mint craftsmanship

Piedfort coins are some of the finest examples of British craftsmanship and the Gold Proof Piedfort Sovereign is no exception. Each has been struck from 22-carat Gold, however, the Piedfort Sovereign has been struck using a double-thickness blank, meaning it contains twice the weight of Gold.

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You can really see the difference in thickness of the Piedfort when compared to the standard issue.

Considered extremely prestige pieces, Piedfort coins continue to be limited issues, and the striking of such coins is strictly reserved for the most important events. Therefore, it seems fitting for one to be issued in our Queen’s milestone Platinum Jubilee year.

Act quickly or risk missing out

With the UK 2022 Proof Sovereign and the very first UK Piedfort Sovereign both selling out within 24 hours, this latest release is practically guaranteed to follow suit. High demand is guaranteed.

Thousands of collectors will miss out. Make sure you’re not one of them.

Register below and we’ll contact you about how you can own one of the UK 2022 Piedfort Sovereigns from our extremely limited stock.