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| The Royal Mint | |
| Company type | State-owned limited company |
| Industry | Coin and medal production |
| Founded | c. 886 (origins)[1] 1279 (unified system)[2] 16 July 2009 (current legal structure)[3] |
| Headquarters | Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales |
Area served | United Kingdom and British Overseas Territories |
Key people | Anne Jessopp (Chief Executive)[4] |
| Products | Coins Medals Bullion |
| Revenue | £1.3 billion[5] (2024) |
| –£1.9 million[5] (2024) | |
| –£4.1 million[5] (2024) | |
| Total assets | £73.7 million[a][5] (2024) |
| Total equity | £73.7 million[5] (2024) |
| Owner | HM Treasury |
Number of employees | 899[5] (2024) |
| Website | www |
The Royal Mint is the United Kingdom's official maker of British coins. It is currently located in Llantrisant, Wales, where it moved in 1968.[6]
Operating under the legal name The Royal Mint Limited, it is a limited company that is wholly owned by His Majesty's Treasury and is under an exclusive contract to supply the nation's coinage. As well as minting circulating coins for the UK and international markets, The Royal Mint is a leading provider of precious metal products.
The Royal Mint was historically part of a series of mints that became centralised to produce coins for the Kingdom of England, all of Great Britain, the United Kingdom, and nations across the Commonwealth.
The Royal Mint operated within the Tower of London for several hundred years before moving to what is now called Royal Mint Court, where it remained until the 1960s. As Britain followed the rest of the world in decimalising its currency, the Mint moved from London to a new 38-acre (15 ha) plant in Llantrisant, Glamorgan, Wales, where it has remained since.
Since 2018 The Royal Mint has been evolving its business to help offset declining cash use. It has expanded into precious metals investment, historic coins, and luxury collectibles, which saw it deliver an operating profit of £12.7 million in 2020–2021.[7]
In 2022 The Royal Mint announced it was building a new plant in South Wales to recover precious metals from electronic waste.[8] The first of this sustainably sourced gold is already being used in a new jewellery division – 886 by The Royal Mint – named in celebration of its symbolic founding date.[9]
- ^ Iliffe, Rob; Mandelbrote, Scott. "The Mint: A Brief Introduction". Newton & the Mint. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 13 February 2025. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
Founded in AD 886
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- ^ "Chief Executive". The Royal Mint. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f Pioneering Change Annual Report 2023–24 (PDF) (Report). The Royal Mint Limited. 12 July 2024. pp. 73, 76, 78, 88. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 February 2025. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
- ^ "About Us | The Royal Mint". www.royalmint.com. Archived from the original on 17 May 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- ^ "The Royal Mint Limited - Annual report 2020–21" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2021.
- ^ "The Royal Mint to build 'world first' plant to turn UK's electronic waste into gold | the Royal Mint".
- ^ "The Royal Mint launch '886', a jewellery division using gold recovered from electronic waste | the Royal Mint". Archived from the original on 26 June 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
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