#royal-mint — Public Fediverse posts
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ William IV's British coinage ✧
William IV's British coinage, struck between 1831 and 1837, ranged from the double sovereign to the third farthing, though the former was not minted for circulation and the latter only for colonial use. The coins have an obverse (pictured) by William Wyon based on a sketch by Francis Chantrey,...
#wyon #royalmint #britain #jeanbaptistemerlen #britishcoinage #wikipedia
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ William IV's British coinage ✧
William IV's British coinage, struck between 1831 and 1837, ranged from the double sovereign to the third farthing, though the former was not minted for circulation and the latter only for colonial use. The coins have an obverse (pictured) by William Wyon based on a sketch by Francis Chantrey,...
#wyon #royalmint #britain #jeanbaptistemerlen #britishcoinage #wikipedia
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Doing money homework with youngest - learnt that in 2023 the Royal Mint issued a 1p Hazel Dormouse and a 2p Squirrel coin 🐿️ with C3’s head on the back.
Honestly hadn’t noticed them in circulation yet… might be low volume? #RoyalMint #Coins
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Doing money homework with youngest - learnt that in 2023 the Royal Mint issued a 1p Hazel Dormouse and a 2p Squirrel coin 🐿️ with C3’s head on the back.
Honestly hadn’t noticed them in circulation yet… might be low volume? #RoyalMint #Coins
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Omg just seen that the Royal Mint LOTR coin projects the Eye of Sauron when the light hits it and I’m just bowing down to the designers right now. Next level.
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Omg just seen that the Royal Mint LOTR coin projects the Eye of Sauron when the light hits it and I’m just bowing down to the designers right now. Next level.
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The winner will be announced today!
Good luck to everyone else who completed the Treasure Hunt...it was great fun and a good challenge.
Thank you to the #RoyalMint 👏👏👏
The Great British Treasure Hunt
🎉I'm in the top 25% of players to crack Level 5 of The Great British Treasure Hunt!
🔍Join the Hunt: www.royalmint.com/treasure-hunt
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The winner will be announced today!
Good luck to everyone else who completed the Treasure Hunt...it was great fun and a good challenge.
Thank you to the #RoyalMint 👏👏👏
The Great British Treasure Hunt
🎉I'm in the top 25% of players to crack Level 5 of The Great British Treasure Hunt!
🔍Join the Hunt: www.royalmint.com/treasure-hunt
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“The bigger, the better”*…
Thea Applebaum Licht with a reminder that, when it comes to size, Texas has got nothing on California…
Between about 1905 and 1915, the United States entered a golden age of postcards. Cheaper and faster mail service, the advent of “divided back” cards (freeing the entire front for images), and improved commercial printing all drove a new mass market for collectible communication. It was at this same moment that a craze for “tall-tale” or “exaggeration” postcards reached its peak. By cutting, collaging, and re-photographing images, artists created out-of-proportion illusions. One of the most popular genres was agricultural goods of fantastic dimensions.
Nowhere were such postcards more popular than in the western states. There, in the heart of the tough business of agriculture, illustrations of folkloric American abundance were understandable favorites. Pride and place were tied up with the prodigious crops. Supersized fruits and vegetables were often accompanied by brief captions: “How We Do Things at Attica, Wis.”, “The Kind We Raise in Our State”, or “The Kind We Grow in Texas”. Photographers like William “Dad” H. Martin and Alfred Stanley Johnson Jr. captured farmers harvesting furniture-sized onions and stacking corn cobs like timber, fisherman reeling in leviathans, and children sharing canoe-like slices of watermelon.
In the series of exaggeration postcards [produced in the run-up to the postcard boom, then published during it] collected [here], it is California that takes center stage. Produced by the prolific San Francisco–based publisher Edward H. Mitchell, each card features a single rail car rolling through lush farmland. Aboard are gargantuan, luminous fruits and vegetables: dimpled navel oranges, a dusky bunch of grapes, and mottled walnuts. Placed end-to-end, the cards would make a colorful train crossing California’s fertile valleys. Unlike other, more action-packed “tall-tale” cards — filled with farmers, fisherman, and children for scale — Mitchell’s series is restrained. Sharply illuminated, the colossal cargo lean toward artwork rather than gag. “A Carload of Mammoth Apples”[here], green-yellow and gleaming, could have been plucked from Rene Magritte’s The Son of Man [here].
Fabulous fruit and vegetables: “Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909),” from @publicdomainrev.bsky.social.
In other art-related news: (very) long-term readers might recall that, back in 2008, (R)D reported that London’s Daily Mail believed that it had tracked him down, and that he is Robin Gunningham. Now as Boing Boing reports:
Anyone reading Banksy’s Wikipedia article at any point since a famous Mail on Sunday exposé in 2008 would likely get the impression the secretive stenciler is probably Robin Gunningham or Robert Del Naja, artists who came from the Bristol Underground. Reuters, having conducted extensive research into their movements, finds both men present at critical moments, but only one at all of them: an arrest report from New York City puts Gunningham firmly in the frame, and recent public records from Ukraine put it beyond doubt.
We later unearthed previously undisclosed U.S. court records and police reports. These included a hand-written confession by the artist to a long-ago misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct – a document that revealed, beyond dispute, Banksy’s true identity. … Reuters presented that man with its findings about his identity and detailed questions about his work and career. He didn’t reply. Banksy’s company, Pest Control, said the artist “has decided to say nothing.”
His long-time lawyer, Mark Stephens, wrote to Reuters that Banksy “does not accept that many of the details contained within your enquiry are correct.” He didn’t elaborate. Without confirming or denying Banksy’s identity, Stephens urged us not to publish this report, saying doing so would violate the artist’s privacy, interfere with his art and put him in danger.
Del Naja (better known for other work) evidently participates in painting the murals and is perhaps the stencil draftsman (Banksy: “he can actually draw”). Banksy’s former manager, Steve Lazarides, organized a legal name change for Gunningham after the Mail on Sunday item, which successfully ended records for Banksy’s movements under his birth name and stymied researchers—until Reuters figured out the new one by poring through Ukrainian public records on days Del Naja was there. Gunningham used the name David Jones, among the most common in the U.K. If it rings a bell, you might be thinking of another famous British artist was who obliged by his record company to find something more unique.
* common idiom
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As we live large, we might spare a thought for Isaac Newton; he died on this date (O.S.) in 1727. A polymath who was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed, Newton was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author, and inventor. He contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. He also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus. (Newton developed calculus a couple of years before Leibniz, but published a couple of years after.) Newton spent the last three decades of his life in London, serving as Warden (1696–1699) and Master (1699–1727) of the Royal Mint, a role in which he increased the trustworthiness/accuracy and security of British coinage in a way crucial to the rise of Great Britain as a commercial and colonial power.
Newton, of course, had a famous relationship with fruit:
Newton often told the story that he was inspired to formulate his theory of gravitation by watching the fall of an apple from a tree. The story is believed to have passed into popular knowledge after being related by Catherine Barton, Newton’s niece, to Voltaire. Voltaire then wrote in his Essay on Epic Poetry (1727), “Sir Isaac Newton walking in his gardens, had the first thought of his system of gravitation, upon seeing an apple falling from a tree.” – source
Newton’s apple is thought to have been the green skinned ‘Flower of Kent’ variety.
Newton’s Tree with Woolsthorpe Manor (where, during the Plague, Newton was staying when he had his insight) behind (source) #apple #art #calculus #culture #currency #EdwardHMitchell #Enlightenment #fruit #gravity #history #humor #IsaacNewton #photography #postcard #Postcards #RoyalMint #Science #scientificRevolution #vegetables -
𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ brass threepence ✧
The brass threepence, a twelve-sided coin dated between 1937 and 1970, was the first British coin that was not round. By the mid-1930s, the weight of the bronze penny and its fractions had become an issue for firms that dealt with them in bulk. The silver threepence was unpopular in England due to its small size. The Royal Mint chose a brass twelve-sided three...
#RoyalMint #England #Wikipedia
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ brass threepence ✧
The brass threepence, a twelve-sided coin dated between 1937 and 1970, was the first British coin that was not round. By the mid-1930s, the weight of the bronze penny and its fractions had become an issue for firms that dealt with them in bulk. The silver threepence was unpopular in England due to its small size. The Royal Mint chose a brass twelve-sided three...
#RoyalMint #England #Wikipedia
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'Time to get rich' if you have four UK coins in circulation worth over £1,000
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/time-rich-you-four-uk-36652146
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'Time to get rich' if you have four UK coins in circulation worth over £1,000
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/time-rich-you-four-uk-36652146
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Check your change for rare £1 error coin that sold for £2,500
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/check-your-change-rare-1-36648430
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Check your change for rare £1 error coin that sold for £2,500
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/check-your-change-rare-1-36648430
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Brits told to look out for five coins that'll 'make you rich'
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/brits-told-look-out-five-36346707
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Earn an 'easy £100' if you find this 50p coin from 2023
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/earn-easy-100-you-find-36273603
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@Extelec sadly he seems to have broken his kneck
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@Extelec sadly he seems to have broken his kneck
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𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗻𝘁
De Britse Royal Mint heeft een speciale munt uitgegeven ter ere van Freddie Mercury. De uitgifte van de nieuwe munt valt samen met het 40-jarig bestaan van het beroemde Live Aid-optreden in 1985.
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𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗻𝘁
De Britse Royal Mint heeft een speciale munt uitgegeven ter ere van Freddie Mercury. De uitgifte van de nieuwe munt valt samen met het 40-jarig bestaan van het beroemde Live Aid-optreden in 1985.
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Check your change for these UK penny coins worth over £206,000
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ fourpence ✧
The British fourpence coin, sometimes known as a groat, is a silver coin valued at 1⁄60 of one pound or 1⁄3 of one shilling. It was struck throughout the 18th century, though by 1800 it had come mostly to be coined to be given as ceremonial alms at the Royal Maundy service. It returned as a circulating coin in 1836, as th...
#RoyalMaundy #RoyalMint #BritishGuiana #Britain #Scotland #Wikipedia
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ fourpence ✧
The British fourpence coin, sometimes known as a groat, is a silver coin valued at 1⁄60 of one pound or 1⁄3 of one shilling. It was struck throughout the 18th century, though by 1800 it had come mostly to be coined to be given as ceremonial alms at the Royal Maundy service. It returned as a circulating coin in 1836, as th...
#RoyalMaundy #RoyalMint #BritishGuiana #Britain #Scotland #Wikipedia
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ five-pound British gold coin ✧
The five-pound British gold coin has been struck intermittently since 1820, but was issued as a circulation coin only in 1887, 1893 and 1902. Through most of its history, it has depicted, on its reverse, Benedetto Pistrucci's portrayal of Saint George and the Dragon, traditionally used on the sovereign. The five-pound piece ...
#SaintGeorge #RoyalMint #Dragon #Una #Wikipedia
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ five-pound British gold coin ✧
The five-pound British gold coin has been struck intermittently since 1820, but was issued as a circulation coin only in 1887, 1893 and 1902. Through most of its history, it has depicted, on its reverse, Benedetto Pistrucci's portrayal of Saint George and the Dragon, traditionally used on the sovereign. The five-pound piece ...
#SaintGeorge #RoyalMint #Dragon #Una #Wikipedia
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"Beatles star John Lennon has been immortalised on a new coin to coincide with the year he would have celebrated his 85th birthday.
It has been issued by The Royal Mint to honour Lennon's life and record-breaking career."
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"Beatles star John Lennon has been immortalised on a new coin to coincide with the year he would have celebrated his 85th birthday.
It has been issued by The Royal Mint to honour Lennon's life and record-breaking career."
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I’ve never really understood the attraction of ‘special edition’ coins that cost you more than the face value of the coin…but there is an irony and something about the timing of this one that almost tempts me!
‘THERE WAS TRUTH AND THERE WAS UNTRUTH’
Inscribed around the edge.
https://www.royalmint.com/shop/limited-editions/george-orwell/
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I’ve never really understood the attraction of ‘special edition’ coins that cost you more than the face value of the coin…but there is an irony and something about the timing of this one that almost tempts me!
‘THERE WAS TRUTH AND THERE WAS UNTRUTH’
Inscribed around the edge.
https://www.royalmint.com/shop/limited-editions/george-orwell/
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ Sir Charles William Fremantle ✧
Sir Charles William Fremantle (1834–1914) was a British official who served for 26 years as deputy master of the Royal Mint, and for most of that time as its executive head. Educated at Eton College, he served as private secretary to several officials, latterly Benjamin Disraeli, including while Disraeli was prime m...
#RoyalMint #Mint #EtonCollege #SaintGeorge #Wikipedia
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ Sir Charles William Fremantle ✧
Sir Charles William Fremantle (1834–1914) was a British official who served for 26 years as deputy master of the Royal Mint, and for most of that time as its executive head. Educated at Eton College, he served as private secretary to several officials, latterly Benjamin Disraeli, including while Disraeli was prime m...
#RoyalMint #Mint #EtonCollege #SaintGeorge #Wikipedia
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#SanjivMehta #entrepreneur #Mumbai
How an #IIMA man relaunched the #EastIndiaCompany #EIC
Acquired in 2005
Now a #luxurybrand
#teas #goldcoins #books
Collaborations with prestigious entities like #RoyalMint and #VictoriaAlbertMuseum.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/how-an-iim-a-man-relaunched-the-east-india-company/articleshow/112523689.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst -
“The 🪙 #RoyalMint said its new factory would be able to process up to 4,000 tonnes of printed circuit boards (PCBs) from #EWaste and the recovered gold will encourage more #Sustainable industry practices.”
https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/08/07/royal-mint-recover-gold-e-waste-new-south-wales-factory
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Royal Mint starts turning e-waste into gold
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6p2k11e41po
There must be other companies that could do the same.
Years ago, the search for gold started a "Gold Rush" in places.
Now people toss it aside.
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Royal Mint starts turning e-waste into gold
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6p2k11e41po
There must be other companies that could do the same.
Years ago, the search for gold started a "Gold Rush" in places.
Now people toss it aside.
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ double sovereign ✧
The double sovereign is a gold coin of the United Kingdom with a nominal value of two pounds sterling (£2). It features the reigning monarch on its obverse and, most often, Benedetto Pistrucci's depiction of Saint George and the Dragon on the reverse (pictured). It was rarely issued in the first century and a half after...
#UnitedKingdom #RoyalMint #SaintGeorge #SydneyMint #Britain #Wikipedia
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ double sovereign ✧
The double sovereign is a gold coin of the United Kingdom with a nominal value of two pounds sterling (£2). It features the reigning monarch on its obverse and, most often, Benedetto Pistrucci's depiction of Saint George and the Dragon on the reverse (pictured). It was rarely issued in the first century and a half after...
#UnitedKingdom #RoyalMint #SaintGeorge #SydneyMint #Britain #Wikipedia
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Star Wars Iconic Vehicles: Docking now at The Royal Mint
#RoyalMint
Available now, the Star Wars Iconic Vehicles collection from The Royal Mint.
https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/collecting/star-wars-iconic-vehicles-docking-now-at-the-royal-mint/?feed_id=20221 -
The Millennium Falcon gets on a 50p coin in a new series from The Royal Mint. Details here https://bit.ly/3x0rZZL
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Star Wars Iconic Vehicles land at The Royal Mint
#RoyalMint
Get Star Wars Iconic Vehicles from the Royal Mint.
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ quarter sovereign ✧
The quarter sovereign is a British gold coin issued by the Royal Mint since 2009. It has been issued as a bullion coin and as a collector's coin. The smallest in the sovereign range, it has a face value of 25 pence. In 1853, the Royal Mint produced two patterns for a quarter sovereign for circulation, with one denominated as five shillings. These coins n...
#RoyalMint #SaintGeorge #Wikipedia
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𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘
✧ quarter sovereign ✧
The quarter sovereign is a British gold coin issued by the Royal Mint since 2009. It has been issued as a bullion coin and as a collector's coin. The smallest in the sovereign range, it has a face value of 25 pence. In 1853, the Royal Mint produced two patterns for a quarter sovereign for circulation, with one denominated as five shillings. These coins n...
#RoyalMint #SaintGeorge #Wikipedia
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Dinosaur-themed coins unveiled by the Royal Mint: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67704802
New dinosaur 50p coins designed by the brilliant @BobNicholls
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Dinosaur-themed coins unveiled by the Royal Mint: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67704802
New dinosaur 50p coins designed by the brilliant @BobNicholls
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Royal Mint most valuable coins as 50p sells for £216 on eBay
Brits are being urged to check their change, their wallets, and down the back of their sofas after a 50p coin sold for more than 400 times its face value at auction.
The rare 50p coin was released in 2009 to mark the 250th anniversary of the opening of Kew Gardens in 1759.
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Ooh I like these. The new 20p has a puffin on it and the new 2p will have a red squirrel.
More flora and fauna on the others, too: https://www.royalmint.com/annual-sets/2023/definitives/king-charles-iii-definitives-2023-base-proof-coin-set/
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Ooh I like these. The new 20p has a puffin on it and the new 2p will have a red squirrel.
More flora and fauna on the others, too: https://www.royalmint.com/annual-sets/2023/definitives/king-charles-iii-definitives-2023-base-proof-coin-set/
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King Charles III new coin designs revealed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67091137
#Coins #Currency #KingCharlesIII #Wildlife #Nature #Biodiversity #RoyalMint
I really like the style of these new coins.
Compared the current ones, one can see so much more clearly what the value of the coin is.
