CHECKING down the back of your sofa or in your coat pockets might result in a windfall if you can find any rare coins. The Royal Mint, the official maker of British coins, regularly puts limited ...

A PRIZED coin collection with some of the rarest examples of hammered gold in British history has sold for £1.1million. A Charles I piece from 1643 was the top item, going for £222,000.

Five years later, Article 16 of the Act of Union declared that for the first time all of Great Britain would have the same currency - so that seems like a good starting point for British coins.

She says no non-white person has ever been featured on British currency. "Who we have on our legal tender, our notes and our coins, builds into a narrative of who we think we are as a nation," she ...