On April 4, 2022, the UK Royal Mint was asked to mint an NFT.  As with many announcements today, the Royal Mint’s announcement came in a tweet.

Either the above announcement demonstrates supreme ignorance or utter brilliance.  Offering for sale non-fungible representations of currency – the most fungible of assets, certainly seems on its face nonsensical.  Disregarding the typo, however, it may have been a brilliant marketing gambit – with the Chancellor’s goal of placing the UK on the crypto map furthered.  What happens this summer might be a major step in that direction.  Who knows?  There may even be a Royal Mint NFT drop at NFT.NYC in June.