Yahoo Finance Royal Mint continues Harry Potter celebration with Dumbledore coin launch
A collectors 50p coin featuring the Professor Albus Dumbledore has been launched by the Royal Mint as part of a Harry Potter-themed collection.
The new coin has the King’s portrait on the “heads” side, while two other coins in the collection feature the late Queen.
It is available to buy from the Mint’s website as a 50p denomination version as well as in other denominations.
Prices for the Professor Albus Dumbledore coin range from £11 for an uncirculated 50p to £20 for a coloured version, to £5,215 for a £200 denomination gold coin.
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Rebecca Morgan, director of collector services, said: “The Royal Mint’s Harry Potter coin collection has seen a popular response among collectors worldwide, not only for the books being a global phenomenon, but due to the collection being one of a small number that will see a change of Royal portrait during the series.
“The 50p coin featuring Professor Albus Dumbledore marks this change of portrait, with His Majesty King Charles III’s official coin portrait now appearing for the first time in the series.
“This collection of coins serves as a permanent reminder of the fascinating transition from Britain’s longest reigning monarch to His Majesty the King’s first appearance on UK coinage.”
The Royal Mint has seen a strong response from younger families and millennials (28%) purchasing coins in the Harry Potter collection directly from the Mint, linking with those who grew up reading the series of books and finding nostalgia with each coin in the series.
So far Harry Potter enthusiasts across 86 countries have bought at least one coin in the range, the Royal Mint said.
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The Professor Albus Dumbledore collectable 50p coin is part of a larger Harry Potter collection celebrating 25 years since the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling was first published in the UK in 1997 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Some of the coins in the collection are in colour and some have a “latent feature”, which rotates in the light to reveal a lightning bolt and the number “25” to mark the anniversary year.
Royal Mint used an advanced picosecond laser to imprint the intricate designs.
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