Citation: "ALLRED1950"Hey Rick would that be the only coin in English history with two different kings of England on it ?
With coins (and foreign ones, not home-minted) only starting in the 600's and England being united in 927, it's not very surprising.
There have been coins with Elizabeth II and Edward VIII on them, as well as Elizabeth II and Victoria. George V had one with his father as well.
I can't be sure but I suspect Daryl's question was more related to circulating coinage rather than medallions or tokens.
Citation: "ALLRED1950"Hey Rick would that be the only coin in English history with two different kings of England on it ?
Sorry, I made a slight error earlier, it turns out there were coins found with the likeness of two Roman emperors together, some had the name of Alfred and some had Ceolwulf, which were previously unrecorded.
Which doesn't mean much. Sutton Hoo had coins of the Emperor Heraclius, it doesn't mean Heraclius knew who Rædwald was or that Heraclius ruled Eastanglia.
Here you go Daryl, a picture of some of the hoard showing the common reverse with the dual portraits and the two different obverses for Ceolwulf and Alfred
Just because you can't see it ... doesn't mean it isn't there - Anon.
The coin with Edward VIII And who? Was Edward VIII and that person ruling England at the same time. That is were I was coming from. Two different kings from two different kingdom on the "Island" on one coin would be very interesting to see.
Thank you Rick I love English early coins. Sorry if using the team English is wrong. I feel blessed and lucky to have two silver penny's . But nothing before 900. They just look great to me.
Citation: "radrick007"It seems we may have done Ceolwulf II our own injustice here on Numista by not including any of his coinage in our catalogue so I intend to put that right soon.
Just for the record, for anyone who may be interested, I have added a few more Anglo-Saxon coins to the England catalogue, including the only type of Ceolwulf II for which I could find images from an authorised source.
Just because you can't see it ... doesn't mean it isn't there - Anon.
Cheers Rick, the section is looking much better since the recent efforts. The current debate isn't really my period but I've noticed that the modern period is much more comprehensive than any rival site and those silly "rare" tags are not adding a John Cleese "Norwegian Blue" element to the section. Keep it up brother!
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
Make Numismatics Great Again!
According to the January 24th Official Journal of the European Union, Vatican City decided to change its national effigy, as the Pope decided to no longer appear directly on coins, replaced by his coat of arms.
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
Mine arrived just 2 days after my mother-in-law sadly passed away after a very long fight with COPD. This coin will now always be even more of a remembrance coin for me. Thanks ZacUK for the information provided.
Citation: "ZacUK" This one is not really news, and not about coins, but I have for ages (44 years) been trying to remember which country it was that had to dismiss the designer of a new banknote, as the leaves of the palm trees were made to look like they spelled out SEX in the way they were drawn on the note !
http://www.pjsymes.com.au/articles/oddities.htm
I either read about it in a newspaper or saw it on television - and now I find it was a 1968 Seychelles 50 Rupee note with Queen Elizabeth II on it. Despite all that it was not decided to redesign the note !?
That link has other banknote errors on there. Interesting read. :D
A Serbian man has spent the last 36 years of his life collecting currency from every country/territory in the world, and is now missing only the Solomon Islands.
Unless he goes to every country to get their currency in person, I don't see how someone who's been collecting for 36 years with that goal in mind could be missing Solomon Islands. It's not exactly a hard one to find.
Citation: "Houseofham"Unless he goes to every country to get their currency in person, I don't see how someone who's been collecting for 36 years with that goal in mind could be missing Solomon Islands. It's not exactly a hard one to find.
I thought something similar, to be honest.
I got myself a Solomon Islands coin for a one digit euro price a few months ago.
In my country we ask: Can I pay with cash?
Most cafés have signs saying "only credit cards" or "no cash". People were seriously wondering why we would get a new coin and banknote serie, since "no one" is using cash. I have friends who haven't held a coin or banknote in their hands for years.
I'm so use of not carrying much cash that at a big coin show over a year ago I had to run out of the place and find a bank, cutting on the precious little time I had left before the show was closing for the day.
Citation: "Camerinvs"I'm so use of not carrying much cash that at a big coin show over a year ago I had to run out of the place and find a bank, cutting on the precious little time I had left before the show was closing for the day.
Not really relevant to the subject of cashlessness, but once I left a coin show to get some more funds; I was attending a UK coin show on the last day at 4 in the afternoon, so when I got back I wasn't allowed in because they were closing in less than an hour- so I had to sneak under the velvet rope while they weren't looking.
Made sure the guy noticed me when I walked back out again with my purchases!
Citation: "CassTaylor"
Not really relevant to the subject of cashlessness, but once I left a coin show to get some more funds; I was attending a UK coin show on the last day at 4 in the afternoon, so when I got back I wasn't allowed in because they were closing in less than an hour- so I had to sneak under the velvet rope while they weren't looking.
Made sure the guy noticed me when I walked back out again with my purchases!
So, based on our experience, one of the coin collector's Commandments should be:
Thou shalt not attend a coin show without carrying a substantial amount of cash.
Kazakhstan's National Bank has just published a press release a few days ago on the Russian version of their site announcing plans to release a new set of circulation coins in 2019.
It reads something like: Press release for the project "In relation to the establishment of a period of parallel circulation of coins of the national currency of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
Basically, they're switching from the Cyrillic to Latin alphabet, which means a change had to be made to their coat of arms (i.e. the legend on it) and this change needs to be reflected on the country's currency.
The denominations will be as before, i.e. 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 Tenge. Whether there will be any changes other than an updated coat of arms is unspecified.
Citation: "Houseofham"Kazakhstan's National Bank has just published a press release a few days ago on the Russian version of their site announcing plans to release a new set of circulation coins in 2019.
https://nationalbank.kz/?vers=org&docid=3587&switch=russian
It reads something like: Press release for the project "In relation to the establishment of a period of parallel circulation of coins of the national currency of the Republic of Kazakhstan"
Basically, they're switching from the Cyrillic to Latin alphabet, which means a change had to be made to their coat of arms (i.e. the legend on it) and this change needs to be reflected on the country's currency.
The denominations will be as before, i.e. 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 Tenge. Whether there will be any changes other than an updated coat of arms is unspecified.
I am strongly objecting the new Kazakh latin based alphabet. They already had an inofficial one, so why make a new illogic one?
Citation: "Giobruno"And I have a question about it: is that coin already catalogued (but not on Numista) or it's a brand new coin type?
on the website they mention coins, but not sure if it's the same as on the picture:
"This date was refined by tiny gold coins from the coffin, called tremissi from Merovingian France. The coins bear the name of the mint where they were made and the moneyer who made them and were only produced after AD 580."
Just call me Bram
No new swaps for the moment, still too many half-ongoing swaps to clean up!
Citation: "Giobruno"And I have a question about it: is that coin already catalogued (but not on Numista) or it's a brand new coin type?
on the website they mention coins, but not sure if it's the same as on the picture:
"This date was refined by tiny gold coins from the coffin, called tremissi from Merovingian France. The coins bear the name of the mint where they were made and the moneyer who made them and were only produced after AD 580."
Thanks, didn't looked on the museum's site before. That info wasn't in the BBC site.
Just to add, there's only a half dozen Merovingian coins in Numista.
Well, then, here is the link, which makes it easier to retrieve the info after several days and many new posts.
By the way, whether they'll be worth AU $50 forever or not, it's cool to have in one's collection and it's easier to try to find a reasonably clean specimen in circulation now than any time later.
It's kind of unfortunate that it's a rather high denomination note; not every one can just afford to take $50 out of circulation for their collection.
looks like nobody has mentioned this yet; as of the 30th of April, the Japanese Emperor has abdicated, ending the age of Heisei. Soon we'll be seeing coins of the new era, Reiwa (令和).
On BBC Radio 2 today there was mention on the news of the Royal Mint offering
a rare 1819 George III sovereign, of which they say there are around only 10 left in the world ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48392141
'The Chew Valley [north-east Somerset, England] hoard contains 1,236 coins of Harold II, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England, and 1,310 coins of William I, as well as several coin fragments'.
'The coins [found in January], which date from just after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, depict both the defeated King Harold II and the triumphant William the Conqueror'.
In the United Kingdom the 50 Pence coin was first introduced in 1969 as
a replacement in decimalisation for the 10 Shilling note. So 2019 is the 50th
anniversary, and to celebrate that there will be a special mintmark on 2019 50 Pence coins.
I found that out today as I received an envelope from Westminster Collection /
Change Checker with all the details inside ...
For anyone in the UK, there is right now a one hour ( 8 to 9pm ) special on television -
Freeview channel 22 (Ideal World) have just started their first ever Collectable Coins Special -
in partnership with the Westminster Collection company (which started in 1945 they say).
Most of tonight's coins are the commemorative 50 Pence, and the alphabet 10 Pence also.
Not sure if other countries know of the animation characters Wallace
and Gromit, but today I got an envelope from Westminster Collection, with
an announcement on the cover of a UK 2019 50 Pence to be issued - to celebrate
30 years since their creation.
Will see if I can find a link on the Westminster Collection site. Yes, here it is ... https://www.westminstercollection.com/p-867M/2019-UK-Wallace-and-Gromit-CERTIFIED-BU-50p.aspx
Oh, I just got in and saw I just missed a coin programme ...
So as I wrote on 25-Oct it is on Freeview channel 22 - not sure if tonight's show
was the second one, or whether there have been others in between time.
On the television news yesterday there was a new 50 Pence coin announcement ...
https://www.dw.com/en/uk-unveils-new-coin-to-mark-brexit/a-52156619
Then on the radio today I also heard some people complained about the punctuation mistake.
* * * * The current version * * * / * * * How it should look * * * *
The punctuation mistake is there should also be a comma after Prosperity
like there is after Peace !
Also
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10822322/brexit-coin-50p-royal-mint-sajid-javid/
where it says 10 million total circulation (3 million on Friday and 7 million later in the year).
'As part of the launch of the coin, the Royal Mint will open the doors of its South Wales HQ
for 24 hours to let people strike their own Brexit coins.
On 31 January, the public can mark the milestone in the UK's history by having a tour of
the Royal Mint followed by an opportunity to forge the coin for themselves'.
Maybe those released later in the year will have the mistake corrected?
I have not yet read the articles, but the comma before "and" (here, therefore, after Prosperity) is not an absolute requirement of the English language. This comma is a.k.a. the "Oxford comma" and, perhaps not surprisingly, it is not to be used according to ... Cambridge University grammar rules!
Citation: "ZacUK" In the United Kingdom the 50 Pence coin was first introduced in 1969 as
a replacement in decimalisation for the 10 Shilling note. So 2019 is the 50th
anniversary, and to celebrate that there will be a special mintmark on 2019 50 Pence coins.
I found that out today as I received an envelope from Westminster Collection /
Change Checker with all the details inside ...
I hope you did not pay any of their rip off prices. Coin checker was accussed of creating the market in the10p farrago. Such ethics would be banned here. Parasite companies should not be making profit out of face value commemorative coins released in circulation.
"Stunning uncirculated condition" - aren't most coins when they are first made - whats the latest gimmick, coins being put in wear making machines that jingle them up and down and they come out in Fine condition.
The Royal Mint should hang its head in shame for re releasing previous commems - some now quite rare and where do they get off charging £32 for a 1969 50p you get for like £5 in any coin shop.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
To mark the 25th James Bond film, the Royal Mint will issue,
among other denominations, a £7,000 (for 007) face value coin.
The reverse will show an Aston Martin car in a gun barrel and the 007 logo.
7 kg Gold Coin. Face Value £7,000
2 kg Gold Coin. Face Value £2,000
1 kg Gold Coin. Face Value £1,000
5 oz Gold Coin. Face Value £500
2 kg Silver Coin. Face Value £1,000
1 kg Silver Coin. Face Value £500
5 oz Silver Coin. Face Value £10
Citation: "CoinNews.net"The tiny silver coin, graded NGC MS 63, was found in an ordinary Whitman folder and brought to Baldwin’s of St. James’s in London in a plastic envelope, or flip. It is only the second example known to numismatists.
Will you update the coin page? Or else should I do the update?
It's annoying that people so carelessly enter their data in the catalogue, or else they do it as a joke, for example with the Canadian $1,000,000 gold "coin". This all corrupts the data that could be useful otherwise.
I have already put in a request that the page will say 'two known' -
either those members have the wrong year of that coin, or have the brass coin.
Either way, yes, annoying - even more so if some are members who mark as
having every single line of every single coin; should not be allowed.
Attention all UK members - in about half an hour on Freeview channel 22
(Ideal World) is a 45-minute programme all about collectable 50 Pence coins ...
The five different presentations [all 2020 coins] on the show were ...
Peter Pan - 6 coins [Isle of Man]
Rupert Bear - 5 coins [Isle of Man]
Dinosaurs - 3 coins [United Kingdom]
V E Day - 7 coins - Spelling V I C T O R Y [Isle of Man]
Brexit - 1 coin [United Kingdom]
The Isle of Man has unveiled new Christmas Carol £2 coins according to their publication. I’ll put in a catalog request soon if it hasn’t already been done
Thanks for the link. I remembered nearly two weeks ago on a Wednesday to order mine,
and it arrived a few days later on Monday last week.
Not sure how many of them, over the years, I have.
Maybe 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018 only - perhaps other years also.
Edit - just looked back through this topic and seen I have 2015, 2016, 2019 also.
So may not have 2011, 2017 coins.
In 2021 the Royal Mint will issue five commemorative coins ...
50 Pence - The 50th anniversary of UK decimalisation
50 Pence - The 75th anniversary of the death of the inventor John Logie Baird
2 Pounds - The 75th anniversary of the death of science fiction author HG Wells
2 Pounds - The 250th anniversary of the birth of novelist Sir Walter Scott
5 Pounds - The Queen's 95th birthday [1926-2021]
Citation: "Camerinvs"Interesting thread about the 50th today on Twitter, by Kate Ironside ─ Do you know who she is?
50th-Decimal-by-@IronsideKate
Christopher Ironside was her father - with a design on a 2013 50 Pence coin.