About The Royal Mint

The Royal Mint promo codes and discount codes are listed above. What follows is what the Mint actually sells to the public, how the sides of the business differ, and which of them a code reaches.

About The Royal Mint

The Royal Mint has been striking Britain's coinage for more than a thousand years and is still the body that makes the country's circulating money. Since 1968 it has done that from Llantrisant in south Wales rather than from London.

What is less widely known is that it also sells directly to the public, and that side of the business has grown well beyond coin collecting.

What you can buy

Commemorative and collectable coins are the heart of it: annual sets, historic anniversaries, and licensed series that sell out quickly and then trade on.

Around those sit precious metals for investors, in gold and silver coins and bars; a jewellery line made from the same metals; and gifts built around a coin from a chosen year, which is the most common route in for someone who is not a collector. The Royal Mint Experience, the visitor centre at Llantrisant, is booked through the same site.

Collecting against investing

These are two different purchases and it is worth knowing which one you are making. A collectable coin is priced on rarity, finish and mintage, and its value depends on other collectors wanting it later.

Bullion is priced on metal weight and moves with the market. Neither of those is advice about where to put money, and the Mint's own pages set out the tax position on certain coins, which is a real difference between the two and worth reading rather than assuming.

Using a Royal Mint promo code

Select the coin or the bar, put the code into the promotion field and confirm the total before you complete the order. The Mint's offers turn up as Royal Mint promo codes, discount codes and voucher codes, and the search data shows promo is the wording most people use.

Precious metal is the obvious exclusion. Bullion runs on thin margins tied to the spot price, so codes almost never touch it and are aimed instead at gifts, jewellery and the visitor experience. Limited-edition releases are also commonly carved out, because they sell without help.