When Harriet Scott's son was left an estimated £18k worth of gold coins by his late grandfather, the mother made the understandable choice of handing them over to Britain's oldest company.
Planning documents for the controversial embassy on the site of the Royal Mint buildings include 'two suites of anonymous unlabelled basement rooms and a tunnel'.
The Royal Mint released four Beatrix Potter themed coins in 2017 with almost 20,000,000 put into circulation, however this coin appears to have an 'error'.
Beijing is controversially planning to construct a major new embassy on the 600,000 sq ft site of the former Royal Mint , opposite the Tower of London.
The fortified Royal Mint complex in East London resembled the set of a B-grade horror movie as it was lashed last week by the gusting winds and torrential rain of Storm Herminia.
Six years ago, the Royal Mint created one million special edition Brexit 50p coins. However, the coins never saw the light of day due to a manufacturing error and were instead approved to be destroye…