We Brits pay VAT on just about everything, from a Pack of Sweets to a bottle of wine. Cigarettes and Petrol are taxed to the max.
I do actually have a one. Why i didn't include Cnut is because he's not an Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon England proper died with Eadmund Ironside in...
Don't get me wrong Christian i think it's about time we had some new designs, it's been a long time coming. 1971-200X (be it 06 or 07) has been...
I'm not too bothered if they include it or not. They'll either wreck them with naff designs, or they'll improve them. I mean the reverses are the...
Not the 20p, that's remaining unchanged. But yes the rest are open to the publuc to send in designs. This is how the circulating £2 coin got it's...
Nooooooooooooooooooooo! I see clip art rubbish on the way. Whenever i hear the word 'modern' interpretation. I think 'massacred' designs, or...
Nice and expensive then! :D Also explains why i wasn't aware of them, i've never met an 18th century US coin in the flesh.
These being US cents from the 18th century? (I've been meaning to get some 18th century US coinage, but i've never come across any round these parts)
If they do go out to museums and the like, is there any chance that the British Museum will get one? ;) They're always the first in there to...
Ah now i had the chance to purchase a 1797 cartwheel twopence that had been converted into a smuggler's box, i wish i'd bought it now! Napoleonic...
Just remember you heard it here first! :D gxseries over at Coinpeople made an interesting post about Russian coinage of the 18th century and...
I love examples of coins like this! I haven't seen it on a South African coin but i once had a penny of George IV of England where someone had...
Anyone every tried collecting coins by their edges? I see a whole variety of different types of edge lettering and a whole plethora of milling...
Every slab that arrives at this house is cracked, none of my coins are slabbed and that's the way it's going to stay. I like to see the edges...
I can recommend Elsen they've been good with me.
It's doubtful they usually look more brass. Just out of interest are they magnetic?
Well i've just started reading a book on early modern France, i've had the book a while but i've only just got around to reading it. It covers the...
Thanks Rick. I always enjoy writing new posts like this. :D
The 1780s, the US was a relatively new country trying to find it's way in the world, laying it's foundations for the future, one that would see it...
I've since specialised myself... but the temptation is everywhere! :D
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