Pobjoy Mint 0

[Zebo]

 I among many others have had our frustrations with the Pobjoy Mint over the years. Their record keeping, or I should say the lack of, has been a tremendous disappointment. Their staff has been pleasant throughout, however. The Pobjoy Mint produced both circulating and non-circulating coinage for the Isle of Man and others. I just saw that it has been announced that they will be closing unless someone else purchases the mint. See below for details along with one of their issues that I particularly like.

https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/pobjoy-mint-announces-retirement-of-managing-director-taya-pobjoy-and-mint-closure

It is with great sadness that Managing Director Taya Pobjoy has announced her official retirement and the closure of Pobjoy Mint after 58 years of manufacturing official currency and commemorative coins. The Mint closure will take place at the end of 2023, so customers will have a chance to complete their collections for the full year, with some releases being brought forward to allow plenty of time for collectors to buy them.

Since its establishment in 1965, the private mint in Kingswood, Surrey, England, some twenty miles outside of London, has produced coins for forty-two nations and territories. Since the mint first entered the market in 1965 with medals commemorating Winston Churchill's passing, it has produced a variety of circulation coins, medals, and commemorative coins. Approximately 40 employees will be affected.

"I've made the big decision to retire this year. My prime objective is to give the customers our service until the end and to make sure that they get a complete year because we all know that coin collecting is an annual thing with a date change. So it's been very much on my mind when making this decision to make sure I give a good service to the very end to my customers..." - Taya Pobjoy

 

Edited October 20, 2023 by Zebo

[Fenntucky Mike]

On 10/16/2023 at 8:06 AM, Zebo said:

 I among many others have had our frustrations with the Pobjoy Mint over the years. Their record keeping, or I should say the lack of, has been a tremendous disappointment. Their staff has been pleasant throughout, however. The Pobjoy Mint produced both circulating and non-circulating coinage for the Isle of Man and others. I just saw that it has been announced that they will be closing unless someone else purchases the mint. See below

Too bad, they were an innovator in their time and produced many wonderful pieces but seem to have been trending downward the past 5-10 years or so. It seems loosing the IoM contract was the beginning of the end, I don't think they were ever able to make up for that loss of business. Their seeming lack of record keeping and haphazard way of doing things also lead to many unique errors and rarities having been produced.

I actually have several Pobjoy tokens, hard to collect IoM coinage and not end up with a few. 

 

[Fenntucky Mike]

 

I've posted this before but it's been awhile and we have some new people here, so... If you skip to the 3 min. mark they start talking about the minting process. There is a few more videos out there of Pobjoy, one from 1978 with Derek Pojoy and Leslie Lindsay, and another of Pobjoy zipping around in his race boat but I can't figure out how to post them here. 

 

[Fenntucky Mike]

It's over.

The last piece minted was this one.

 

Edited December 3, 2023 by Fenntucky Mike

[Zebo]

RIP

 

[Fenntucky Mike]

Is that the token/medal Pobjoy was including with all purchases made this year?

[Zebo]

They were sending these out, but I am not sure if it was just this year or not.