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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 2678870, member: 4910&quot;]Repeated with new pictures:</p><p><br /></p><p>This British newspaper front page has a small article on coins of Edward VIII:</p><p><br /></p><p>Daily Herald newspaper, December 11, 1936</p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_edward8_newspaper_page.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_edward8_newspaper_nocoins.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Page detail - No coins of King Edward</p><p><br /></p><p>Article text:</p><p><br /></p><p>NO COINS OF KING EDWARD</p><p>RUSH TO BUY STAMPS</p><p>No King Edward VIII coins will ever be in circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>No coins could have been made before a royal proclamation announcing the date on which the coinage would come into circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Such a proclamation was expected this month. It would have described the design for the King&#039;s head and the designs of the reverse sides for the different denominations.</p><p><br /></p><p>The existing King Edward stamps will be issued until the stocks are exhausted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Within a quarter of an hour of the abdication announcement, post offices at [] were raided yesterday by philatelists. They purchased all King Edward stamps of the higher denominations.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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