How did The Queen’s Beasts series come about? The Queen’s Beasts series came about as any coin design would; it started with an RMAC (Royal Mint Advisory Committee) coin design competition – that was a while ago now. For the competition, we had to design two beasts in the series at first – the griffin […]
The Queen’s Beasts — Bringing Ancestry to Life
Meet Royal Mint coin designer Jody Clark, the creator of the reverse designs for The Queen’s Beasts Collection, including the Lion of England, Lion of Mortimer, Griffin, Falcon, Black Bull, Yale, Greyhound, Dragon, Unicorn and Horse. After designing Her Majesty The Queen’s fifth circulating coinage portrait, Jody Clark is well known to coin collectors. In […]
About the Lunar Dragon 5 oz Silver Coin
Lunar Dragon 5 oz Silver Coin Characteristics This Australian bullion coin, the Lunar Dragon 5 oz silver coin was minted in 2012 because this is the Year of the Dragon according to the Chinese calendar. The Lunar Dragon series will be minted only throughout the year 2012 since the following year, in 2013 will be […]