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April update: faster prices, a sleeker mobile experience, 50 new achievements

April update: faster prices, a sleeker mobile experience, 50 new achievements

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Editor, MyCoinage · Published 22 April 2026 · Updated 24 April 2026

Prices refresh every hour now

Gold, silver, platinum, palladium and copper spot prices, plus the USD / GBP / EUR exchange rates that drive our currency switcher, now update hourly across the site. Before today they refreshed three times a day. Your portfolio value, melt values on coin pages, and the leaderboard all pick up the new numbers within the hour.

We also switched our gold and silver pricing to live spot data rather than futures, so the numbers you see on the Metals page match the reference prices elsewhere on the web to the penny.

A proper mobile menu

The top nav on phones has a new menu button next to the logo. Tap it and a sheet slides in with everything that didn't fit in the bottom bar, Leaderboard, Metals, Coin Series, News, Watchlist, Settings and more, plus the currency picker and an Upgrade to Pro shortcut for free members.

  • Top nav now stays pinned at the top of the screen when you scroll
  • Filter sheet on the Browse page swipes down to close and floats above the bottom nav properly
  • Login, register, Browse filters and currency switcher all got small refinements

50 new achievements

We've added fifty new badges to chase, everything from filling your first full coin series to owning pieces from more than ten British monarchs, reaching a 365-day streak, or logging your first coin sold at a profit. That's 69 achievements in total now, with descriptions shown inline on your dashboard so you always know what earns what.

Four new guides on Explore

Four new long-form guides are live:

Other polish

  • Leaderboard and profile visibility are now separate settings, you can appear on the leaderboard while keeping your profile private
  • Private users show on the leaderboard with a 🔒 marker and an unclickable name
  • Blog posts and updates render with proper headings, lists and links
  • Site updates now send an in-app notification when they publish
  • Accessibility: a proper keyboard focus ring, reduced-motion support, cleaner skip-to-content link

Questions or feedback? The Contact page is still the fastest way to reach us.

Eleanor Wright

I write the guides, grading reference and blog here at MyCoinage. Been collecting British coins since 2012, started with an inherited bag of pre-decimal silver and that was it, I was hooked. My main focus is 20th-century UK proofs and the Elizabeth II pre-decimal silver, but I spend most of my week reading auction catalogues and new coin submissions across every denomination.

If you spot something in a guide that could be sharper or you have a suggestion for a page we should add, drop me a line through /contact, I read everything that comes in.

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