Factory of the month: The Royal Mint

Posted on 7 Dec 2012

Tom Moore visits the Royal Mint to discuss how the 1,000 year-old company has redesigned the metal in your pocket to slash coin costs and shorten manufacturing times.

Filling wallets and pockets across the world, the journey of every coin begins at the Royal Mint’s Ministry of Defence-guarded site in south Wales. From the two pence coins dropped into coin machines in arcades along the coast to the coins used to buy your groceries, it all begins here in this Aladdin’s cave of…

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