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Thanks - you are not to know but I have been collecting scince 1960, oooops! it tell my age (old an crokerty) My passion is coins and the link to history + the dreams I have when I doze in a 'rocking chair' and dream whose hands and pockets has a specific coin been. The Hadrian Britanicus I dream of Hadrian speaking to the head of the Legion with the troops behind the heads of the Legion outside York as he gave instructions to build Hadrians Wall some 2'000 years ago.
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Dear mum and dad, it is hell (1914). - I Would like more stories of the ‘horror of war’ & Numismatic
A letter direct from the Dardanelles War Front which I saw, but the family would not part with it in the 1970’s some 50 years after the event and the medal the young soldier received posthumously. A … (View Post)4 -
LATEST PURCHASE - England’s First Trade Tokens? Anybody can assist?
When did the use of trade tokens in Britain begin? The answer may be during the reign of Edward I whose introduction of a round farthing in 1279 quickly put an end to the need for a token to use as “… (View Post)1 -
What is the political, social position vis-a-vis the USA & UK on a specific dated British coin
I see a modern coin, these are my first thoughts During April/May 1806 in the UK they were still striking Copper coins at the Soho Mint. The picture of the PROOF 1d in copper Soho’s late official coi… (View Post)1 -
Re: HOW DO YOU GRADE THIS USA COUNTERMARK COIN? (with an octagonal UK George III Oval)
AS REQUESTED CLEARER PICTURES (View Post)6 -
HOW DO YOU GRADE THIS USA COUNTERMARK COIN? (with an octagonal UK George III Oval)
United States Draped Bust Dollar 1799 [A coin with a difference] Once again numismatics joins our two nations. **Britain had a shortage of the Kings Coinage from 1751 to early in the 1800’s. ** There… (View Post)7
