Numismatic sites of London
STLcardinalsfan17
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Hello!
I write for Active Interest Media, which publishes three numismatic magazines and updates the Numismaster dot com price guide for coins and bank notes.
We are offering a tour of London and the UK in September, and I wondered if there were some sites we should have had on the list that we missed this time.
We are going to:
the Royal Mint in Wales
Portobello Road Market
London Coin Fair'
The Bank of England Museum
Coincraft (a coin shop)
Kensington Palace
The Ashmolean Museum
The Carleon Roman Legion Museum
The National Museum in Cardiff
I'd love to have also visited the Tower of London, where the Tower Mint was.
I'd love your thoughts (and can of course provide more information about the trip.
Thanks!
Jeff Starck
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Spink, of course...
Well, just Love coins, period.
Seems a bit odd to go to Coincraft and not the British Museum.
Spink, of course...
Also, it is possible - or used to be - to make an appointment in the Coin Room at the British Museum..
Well, just Love coins, period.
Yes, still is. You can give them a list of coins you want to handle in person. I'm not sure if that stretches to Eid Mars and Coenwulf mancuses though.
Have a great time and considering sharing the fun of seeing all that it is the agenda.
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
Wish I had known that. I visited once, in February 1999, but I wasn't primarily thinking of coins and didn't even know they had an extensive collection.
Only had a few displays and I remember they had an MS 1874 ZAR Burgess Pond since South Africa was my primary collecting interest at the time. It wasn't until later I found out they had one of the largest if not the largest collection in the world.
Check out Baldwins in London on The Strand.
The FitzWilliam museum in Cambridge has an exceptional medieval British coin collection