John Conduitt ✭✭✭✭

Everyone did at that time. That had been the theory since the beginning of coinage. Historically, England's economy benefitted hugely from the perception that it's coins were pure. With international… (View Post)

I don't believe there's any evidence that before the Great Recoinage of 1817 any special Maundy coins were issued. It was all for circulation in the first place. I don't think the coin shortage was b… (View Post)

I can't tell what it is meant to be, but in the UK, corn is wheat. (View Post)

You have to come back to the fact that slabbing is not exactly popular in “world” coins (which here seems to mean “non-US”). So why would a sticker be necessary? To differentiate between coins that a… (View Post)

Antoninus Pius http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.803 CONSTANTINOPOLI, Cyzicus http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.7.cyz.73 (View Post)