Pobjoy Mint

[2] The mint also manufactured circulating currency for some British Overseas Territories and sovereign countries including Sierra Leone and Vanuatu.

[2] Upon the death of Winston Churchill in the same year the small mint produced a series of gold medals to commemorate coins.

[2] On 12 October 2023, the current Director Taya Pobjoy announced during a podcast with Coin World, a numismatic publication in the US, both her retirement and the closure of the Mint in its entirety.

In the 1970s, the company developed a new metal alloy similar to German silver known as Virenium, which consisted of 81% copper, 10% zinc, and 9% nickel.

The noble has legal tender status although, like the South African gold Krugerrand, its value is defined only by its precious metal content as it has no numismatic value.