Soho Mint - A World First!

We are here with a thoroughly modern web site to celebrate the achievements of Matthew Boulton who died two hundred years ago in August 1809.

But a modern website is no anachronism; Matthew Boulton was at the leading edge of technology and innovation in his own time.

So here, as a tribute to a great man, we will look at Matthew Boulton, and the Soho Mint; how Mr Boulton fitted into the great scheme of things, how the Mint was established and worked, and what it produced.

The world's first thoroughly modern money.

● We all know that Matthew Boulton and the Soho Mint made millions of coins and tokens for Great Britain, and most of these were pennies, halfpennies and farthings. But even though we may know the denominations, it is much more difficult to determine what these coins were actually worth. Click HERE to find out The Value of Money

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Although progress is sometimes a bit patchy, the website is still very much a work in progress. More items will be added as they become available, but in the meantime please forgive us our deficiencies! We hope to see you back, soon.

● Most collectors of 18th Century tokens are more or less familiar with the pineapple pennies of Barbados - or The Barbadoes as it was referred to at the time. But Matthew Boulton didn’t strike these; he was getting ready to make a new issue dated 1791 - before the order was stopped! Click HERE for a review of what might have been.