Coin Collector

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Collecting coins can throw up all kinds of quirks and varieties that the less observant collector might miss. The recently issued ‘Team GB’ 50p is a good example. The coin features two dates (‘2020’ and ‘2021’) thanks to the postponement of the Tokyo

Dr Murray Andrews holds a PhD from the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. He specialises in the archaeology of the medieval economy, with a particular focus on the material culture of money. He currently works as a freelance numismatic specialist for arc

Jonathan Callaway is a Director of the International Bank Note Society Lawrence Chard Founder and Expert Numismatist, Speciality Sovereigns Elizabeth Cottam Specialist in Celtic coins and Director of Chris Rudd Ltd Jeff Garrett US coin dealer and boa

The 1933 Double Eagle, described as ‘the most famous coin in the world’, has sold at auction in New York for $18,872,250 (approximately £13.3 million), breaking the record for the most expensive coin in the world. The ‘fabled and elusive’ 1933 Double

The next three women featured on coins as part of the US Mint’s ‘American Women Quarters’ series have been revealed, with Wilma Mankiller, Adelina Otero-Warren, and Anna May Wong set to be honoured, alongside author Maya Angelou and astronaut Dr Sall

SOLD FOR £959 France, 1 franc D-DAY 1993 gold coin FDC SOLD FOR £373 China, Xinjiang Province 1 silver dollar 1949 SOLD FOR £640 Finland, 500 EUR Duisenberg banknote 2002 UNC SOLD FOR £801 Gallic coin, Gold statere ‘Cenomans’ 2nd/1st century BC SOLD

The USA-based Professional Numismatists Guild (www.PNGdealers.org) is a nonprofit organiSation founded in 1955 that today is composed of nearly 300 rare coin, bank note and bullion coin dealers who must adhere to a strict Code of Ethics in the buying

For many years, the euro has been criticized. The common currency would merge debts, they said. Weak currencies like the Italian lira and the Greek drachma cannot work alongside the mighty German mark, some suggested. Silent disapproval even comes fr

The subject of this article, General Sir Leslie Rundle, was born in Devon in 1856 and commissioned into the Royal Artillery at the age of twenty. He served in the Zulu War of 1879 and the first Boer War of 1881, but it was in Egypt and the Sudan that

The French Revolution, like the American, was built on paper promises. The Estates-General printed interest-bearing paper bonds known as assignat which were backed against the sale of confiscated church and patrician lands. Initially conceived as a t

A new online database of German and Austrian public coin collections has been launched, offering collectors the chance to view details of some 90,000 coins. The new website (ikmk.net) is free to access and claims to be the biggest coin database in th

Paper money first made what turned out to be an inglorious debut in France in the early 18th century when John Law, a Scotsman with a flair for mathematics and a persuasive tongue, became Controller General of Finance. He is remembered for his disast

You might be surprised to know that mints make spelling errors on coins, but it happens, and it used to be surprisingly common, writes Julianna Chard. Since the days when the first inscriptions (often called legends) appeared on coins, errors were bo

(www.perthmint.com) Dreaming Down Under – DingoDenomination: 50 centsMetal: 99.99% pure silverMintage: 5,000 Australian Wedge-tailed EagleDenomination: $500Metal: 99.99% pure goldMintage: 50 Notes: The coin’s ultra high relief reverse is minted on a

For more than 400 years brave souls from every corner of Britain regularly set forth on journeys that might have taken them hundreds of miles from their homes in an age when travel beyond one’s own parish boundary seemed remarkable. Destinations incl