In January 1778, Marshall Spink was apprenticed to John Flude at 2 Gracechurch Street where they brokered pledges of jewellery, coins and other household furnishings.

[3] Spink would be commissioned to produce a presentation wooden casket to contain the Freedom of the City of London for Dr David Livingstone in 1857.

[5] In the 1880s, they bought the Soho Mint and began to design and manufacture medals, gaining a Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria in 1887.

Spink is well known for its annual Standard Catalogue of British Coins price guide and handbook, also part of the Seaby acquisition and founded in 1929.

[13] The first recorded auction held by the company was undertaken by Marshall Spink at the Red Lion Inn in Staines, Middlesex on 20 March 1792.

[3] Soon after William John Webster, Inspector to the Royal Mint and Leonard Forrer joined the firm, Spink created a fixed price periodical for the sale of collectable coins.

[3] The Numismatic Circular was issued monthly from December 1892 until January 2014, when it was discontinued in favour of a quarterly auction format for selling coins.

[53] In November 2022, it was announced that the NatWest Group were offering their own paper money archives to raise funds for the Trussell Trust.

[54][55] Following Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement of lockdown measures in the United Kingdom on 23 March 2020, Spink was the first numismatic auctioneer in the world to pioneer a successful 'hybrid' sale where every bidder participated virtually.