Royal Mint Museum Royal Mint Museum The Royal Mint Museum is a numismatics museum located in Llantrisant, Wales, which houses coins, medals, artwork and minting equipment previous owned by the Royal Mint. Although the museum is located on the same site as the Royal Mint, the mint and the museum are separate companies. In partnership with the mint, a new £9 million visitor centre was built to allow members of the public to view part of the museum's collection. Following the privatisation of the Royal Mint in 2009, whereby it became a limited company, much of the mint's numismatic collection was separated into
Royal Mint Exchequer George Osborne announced a £20 billion privatisation drive to raise funds with the "Royal Mint" being up for sale alongside other institutions including the Met Office and Companies House. With its new found financial freedom the Mint begun diversifying their product range through expanding to offer items outside their usual coin-related merchandise. By the early 2000s the Mint was selling different types of jewellery, commemorative plates and figurines, eventually creating its own "Royal Mint Classics" range of collectable goods. This part of the business proved popular in attracting new customers however suffered from poor product development. Example of its