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Royal Mint United Kingdom has launched Golden Bullion Bars featuring Lord Ganesha and Goddess Lakshmi. These were launched on 01/08/2022 citing the upcoming festive season of Dhanteras and Deepavali, festival of light. The Golden Bars are in 20grams of 999.9 fine gold and has been designed in collaboration with Nilesh Kabaria from the Shree Swaminarayan Temple in Cardiff. 

India has one of the highest private consumption of gold and majority of Indians still consider gold as safest investment. Royal Mint United Kingdom from time to time produce coins and bar to honour and celebrate other cultures and religion. They also launched Silver and Golden Bullion coins in 2021 commemorating Mahatma Gandhi.

If you are looking to buy coins please check link below

https://www.royalmint.com/gifts/indian-inspired/

I always had a passion for collection. From my childhood I collected the items such as paper money, coins, tickets but one of them I never realised the scale I did was matchboxes.

Time has changed now people has self lit gas cooktop or electric lighters which sends a spark or smokers carry gas lighters now but back in those days it was matchboxes to fire up anything. As demand was more there was more supply from more suppliers and from more suppliers came more design on matchboxes.

Cant really tell the age of the each match box but while posting the boxes I can see some of them had MRP tag of 10 paise even so can guess some of them will be as old as 1980s.

The frame contains 100 different matchboxes design which still left me with another 50-70 boxes still to be framed. The framed one are the one with old and unique designs.

Home matchboxes was definitely the king of matchboxes but all of them made some mark at some point of time.

Check out the pics of the complete collection below.

On 20 June 2018 the Australian $2 coin turns 30. $2 coin replaced $2 note which were less durable than coins. Although planning to replace $1 and $2 notes started at same time but $2 coin was introduced 4 years later than $1 coin.

Mr Horst Hahne design was selected out of many entries. His design featured traditional Aboriginal man, Southern Cross and Australian Flora. Interestingly coin till 1990 bears the initial of its designer and they were removed in 1990.

The coin was made up of composition of 92% copper, 6% aluminium and 2% nickel with circular shape with 20.50 mm diameter and 6.60 gram mass. Edges of the coin were interrupted milled. The coin was designed taking consideration of visually impaired community and was designed to fit into existing coinage.

Although 160.9 millions coins were produced in 1988 , there was no coin manufactured in 1991.

It was in 2012 when $2 coin was first time designed to commemorate a special occasion. Design by Aaron Baggio was used in 2012 to commemorate Remembrance Day. The coin contained image of poppy in the middle. 5.8 millions coins were produced with poppy and 0.5 millions were produced with red poppy flower in centre. Since then every year the coin is being used to commemorate an important occasion. In 2016 it was the first time that observe of the coin has been changed. It was 1966 changeover commemoration that reflected on the coins in circulation.

Source: Royal Australian Mint Website.

Disclaimer: Although great care has been taken in writing this article, please refer to RAM website for more details and accuracy.

On 28 March 2017, United Kingdom introduces the new One Pound Coin. The reason for the introduction for the new coin was large scale counterfeiting of old round pound. As per Royal Mint, UK, one in three Pound coin is counterfeit.

Projected as most secure coin in the world, the new coin has 12-sided corner resembling old 3 penny coin. It is a bimetallic coin with gold colour outside and silver inside. To make it hard to counterfeit, the coin features a latent image. The latent image changes image when seen from different angle, making it hard to counterfeit. Also have regular security features like micro lettering and milled edges. To add up to security, there is an undisclosed hidden security feature inside the coin.

The coin features the fifth coinage portrait of Her Majesty Queen. The reserve depicts the true essence of United Kingdom. The coin has a new dimension of 23.43 diameters and weight of 8.75.

Don’t forget to add “Last Round Pound” into your collection. Coin comes with in a commemorative folder from Royal Mint with a Pound coin in an uncirculated brilliant finish. Click Here to check out Last Round Pound.