News & Blog
March 2006's News
The second George Cross of the Iraq war has been awarded to Captain Peter Allen Noerton, a bomb disposal expert who lost part of his arm and a leg in a bomb attack in the Al Bayaa district near Baghdad, which killed four and injured several others. Despite being told about the threat of a…
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"Honour the Armies”, an important new work by Australian author Michael Maton author of Honour the Airforces, is OUT NOW!! This huge tome lists, for the first time, the names of over 60,000 recipients of gallantry and distinguished service awards made during the Second World War to members of the…
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Don't forget the Leeds show being held at the Cedar Court Hotel, Wakefield just off the M1 (junction 39 - it's literally "just there") this Sunday (March 26) We were delighted when we last attended the show a few months ago and have always promised we'd go back when we could - now we can and so…
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We tried a little experiment this week - we typed in Coin Magazines/magazine on coins/magazine, coin/coin mag and a whole host of other permutations into a number of the leading search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and others) and guess what? COIN NEWS came in the top five every time! And if you…
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The Maria Theresa Thaler is one of those coins that everybody has heard about - and it is loved by numismatists, historians and even jewellers from across the globe - this new work by Clara Semple tells the story of the MTT as never before. It's lavishly illustrated, in full colour and only twenty…
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in this month's (March) magazine there appears a small news piece pertaining to a Zulu War Medal to a J (H) Meredith - in light of new information that piece should be ignored. A full statement will appear in the April issue
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