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Going behind the scenes at the Royal Mint to explore Hallmarking’s history
Posted 02 July 2024 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Analysis|Inside Trading Standards|National
ANALYSIS: From the Tower of London to modern South Wales, the Royal Mint's remarkable history reveals how technological change, decimalisation and innovation transformed one of Britain's oldest institutions.
The Royal Mint was, for centuries, in London. It started life inside the Tower of London, and subsequently moved to Tower Hill as more space was needed. By the 1950s the growing population and more coinage in circulation made the need for further expansion a priority. The deciding factor was decimalisation. This would only be achieved by the Mint producing the old coinage system as well as suff...
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