Jewellery from cufflinks to necklaces are being made using traditional coin-pressing techniques.
Media playback is unsupported on your deviceAs people are using less cash, the Royal Mint has expanded its offering by turning to jewellery making.
Last year, the world's largest export mint produced 3.3 billion coins from its base in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taff. But production has now started on a range of jewellery costing between £80 and £2,000 and for Christmas, a 16ct handmade gold bauble will be created."Because we're used to working with precious metals, the minting process lends itself to making some of those components," said new business development engineer Daniel Thomas.
"We've also introduced some new crafting processes and coupled those together to develop a new range. "We've got over 1,100 years in manufacturing coins so it is a step change but we utilise the same quality inspection and pride in craftsmanship manufacturing and applied that to jewellery."
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