Royal Mint Experience

Strike Your Own Coin	Start	End	Units
Last round pound	18/05/2016	31/12/2016	40,848
New £1	01/01/2017	13/10/2017	45,726
Isaac Newton 2017	14/10/2017	31/12/2017	4,957
Isaac Newton 2018	01/01/2018	18/03/2018	20,826
Britannia £2 2018	19/03/2018	18/05/2018	6,426
Royal Wedding £5	19/05/2018	20/05/2018	508
Britannia £2 2018	21/05/2018	30/09/2018	12,651
Frankenstein £2	01/10/2018	18/11/2018	6,740
Nutcracker £5	19/11/2018	31/12/2018	3,808

Strike your own Iguanodon 50p

31st July - 24th September 2020

In 1822 Mary Mantell found a fossilised tooth embedded in the rocks by the side of the road near Lewes in Sussex. Her husband Dr Gideon Mantell, an amateur palaeontologist, realised it belonged to a giant extinct reptile which he named Iguanodon in 1825.

Iguanodon lived during the Early Cretaceous period, 140–110 million years ago. Reaching a length of about ten metres, Iguanodon probably walked on both two and four legs. It may have used its thumb spike to fend off predators or prepare its food.