General News
January 2010's News
A stamp celebrating the first black man and one of teh first Canadians to win the Victoria Cross goes on sale on Monday February 1 2010 across Canada. The Stamp, featuring William Hall who won his V.C. Serving with the Royal Navy at Lucknow during the mutiny, will officially be launched at HMCS…
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The latest Volume in Alan Stuart Excellent Silver War Badge Series is available from Token Publishing now! These books are a must have for any World War I Collector listing as they do the complete roll for the War (Wound) badge both by badge number and by surname - was your medal recipient…
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We'll be heading up the M5/M42/A42/M1 (yes it's a long way) again on Sunday January 31 to attend Eddie Smith's "Leeds" show at the Cedar Court Hotel Wakefield, just off junction 39 of the M1 Eddie's show has gone from strength to strength in recent years and we always like to support it if we can,…
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The "soldier" who caused outrage at an Armistice Day parade in Warwickshire has admitted to "unlawfully using military decoration". The full story can be found here
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The Royal Mint have just announced the design of the 2010 Britannia. A more relaxed image graces the new coin with Britannia portrayed in classical style, hair and robes flowing and sporting a "Corinthian" style helmet. Judge for yourselves!
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According to a Krause press release today "Ten outstanding 2008-dated coins have been honored with Coin of the Year Awards by World Coin News magazine." An international panel of judges selected the winners from hundreds of nominated coins during a final round of balloting that concluded in late…
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Apologies to anyone waiting for Token Publishing book/accessory orders - the snow has meant that key members of staff (me for example :) ) haven't been able to make it into work so there is a small backlog of orders waiting for despatch. We will get onto it as soon as we can!
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