Official King Charles III Portrait - St Helena
Mar 24 , 2023
EIC new official British Isles King Charles III effigy has been designed by the well-known artist, Glyn Davies. Following the death of Queen Elizab...
Discover Our Coin Designers
Mar 23 , 2023
To this day, The East India Company’s coins are loved and collected all over the world, offering an breath-taking range of intricate designs create...
Decus et Tutamen
Mar 23 , 2023
The origins and its relation to the Five Guinea gold coin of Charles II The dedication “ Decus et Tutamen ” simply means – an decoration and a saf...
Creating our Coin Collections
Mar 23 , 2023
In the late 17th Century, as The East India Company’s spirit of exploration took it across the world, King Charles II awarded the Company the right...
St Helena and EIC
Mar 23 , 2023
The shared story of the island of St Helena and The East India Company stretches back to the mid-17th Century when the Company used the island as a...
A Rivalry Between Two World Class Engravers - Pistrucci V Wyon
Mar 23 , 2023
In 1816 William Wyon, an Assistant Engraver at The Royal Mint, entered a competition to design new coins for the Great Recoinage. His submission, T...
Willian Wyon - St George & the Dragon
Mar 23 , 2023
In 1844 Wyon received a private commission from Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, to design a personal medal for the Prince Consort. Albert ...
William Wyon & Queen Victoria - Una & the Lion
Mar 23 , 2023
Wyon’s reputation as a great coin designer is forever linked to the reign of Queen Victoria, who first sat for him as a young 13-year-old princess....