royal mint

[matthay]

How much does it actually cost the royal mint to manufacture the following coins:

1p, 2p, 5p, 20p, 50p �1

in terms of material, machinery, plant, people, admin etc etc it surely is more than the value of the coins themselves?

[Ethel]

They won't say!

http://www.royalmint.com/RoyalMint/web/site/Co rporate/Home/txt_Corp_faq.asp

[THECORBYLOON]

I don't know about the "silver" coins but there was a bit in the papers the other month about the "copper" coins and there's an an article here, http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1 773282,00.html#article_continue

[matthay]

I'm interested now in who the competitors are: surely that would be illegal!!!!!!

[dzug]

The competitors are mints in other countries, and private mints, who compete with the Royal Mint to make coins for countries that don't have mints.