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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26435608, member: 86815&quot;]Wow, welcome to Wales , if I had known a fellow CT was here I would have made efforts to meet but I was at Coinex in London on Saturday. I have an office in Talbot Green 5 minutes from the Mint. My late friend Joe Cussen OBE was a mint master who organised the move from London to Llantrisant and I have many stories and memories of him . His wife Sue was their marketing manager until she retired.</p><p>I&#039;m ashamed to say I have never visited but nor did I visit Cardiff Castle for 40 years until I showed a USA visitor around. Any other CT visitors to Wales and I am your man for a visit! </p><p>Thank you for sharing [USER=77639]@calcol[/USER] </p><p>The coin you struck would have appealed to [USER=25416]@dwhiz[/USER] . I&#039;ll see if I can get him one in the next year. This month is the 100 year anniversary of the first paying passenger train in the world. On 27th September 1825 fare paying passengers travelled 27 miles from Darlington to Shildon. I used to work in Darlington and there is a fantastic railways museum there. </p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Tracts_vol_57_p252_1821_Plan_of_intended_Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway.jpg/330px-Tracts_vol_57_p252_1821_Plan_of_intended_Stockton_and_Darlington_Railway.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>This is the map of the first planned railroad routes that were originally constructed to transport coal.</p><p>This is a famous image of the train crossing the viaduct.</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/StocktonDarlingtonOpening.jpg/1280px-StocktonDarlingtonOpening.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>So not only did you visit an immensely historic site and one of the oldest mints in Europe but you struck a coin celebrating huge historic significance [USER=77639]@calcol[/USER] </p><p>Thank you for sharing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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