But the reality, at least for most UK households, is that buying gold bullion takes the form of smaller bars and coins ...

The Post Office, for example, is a heavy user of coins, and demand tends to increase across the country in the run-up to Christmas ... quantities of UK coins the Royal Mint is asked to produce ...

Britons are buying up gold bullion coins instead of gold bars, the Royal Mint says, as prices spike and customers look to avoid rumoured rises to capital gains tax. The gold price today breached ...

It is the first of the Royal Mint's 50p Christmas coins to feature the official coinage portrait of King Charles. First published in 1978, The Snowman has sold more than 5.5 million copies around ...