Coins

The British Museum is to hold an exhibition on money and medals in a tie-up with specialist London coin and stamp auction Spink.

The entire coin collection of Byzantine scholar Simon Bendall was stolen from his home near Victoria in London during a break-in earlier this week.

The Royal Mint is expanding its interest in the historical coin market by launching an authentication and valuation service which is available via its website.

Collectables specialist Heritage Auctions has announced a number of new developments to the Heritage Auctions app.

Not every coin has to be old to have value for collectors. A £1 coin struck in error just last year is estimated at £1000-1400 in the TimeLine Auctions February 20-24 sale.

Judging by the number of coin proof sets that have been issued in Elizabeth II’s reign, they have become very popular with collectors. But these Royal Mint sets date much further back and are now sought-after at auction.

A scarce coin showing a portrait of the first Tudor monarch has been bought at auction on behalf of the Royal Mint Museum for £44,000.

If you want a gold coin to have rarity value, then an example from a monarch whose reign lasted only a couple of years is a good start.

A rare William III five-guineas has been consigned to Stride & Son just over a week before its specialist coin sale.

Baldwin’s of St James’s set a new record for a British five pounds piece when a “good, extremely fine” example of the 1839 ‘Una and the Lion’ five pounds coin took £340,000.