Coin News
June 2009's News
Incredibly this is suddenly big news - but we broke the story back in December 2008! Here's what we had to say back then...... Check your change everybody - after 25 years (the last instance being with the 1983 New Pence/Two pence reverse) the Royal Mint have let a mule slip through their…
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Stop Press***Stop Press***Stop Press An important ninth century Anglo-Frisian Solidus, recently found near Salisbury, fetches £9,300 at auction at Spink in London - see the August COIN NEWS (On sale July 22) for further details
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Commemorative medals are usually struck to celebrate a famous victory, an invention, a worthy life well lived - not, apparently, always - as this exhibition at the British Museum demonstrates.....! Click here for details!
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Phil was on the radio again this week - on the Roy Noble Programme (BBC Radio Wales) talking about the new £5 "Henry VIII" crown. He'll be appearing on BBC Radio Devon next week talking on the same subject. We tend to forget that outside our hobby people are still genuinely interested in the coins…
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It was a long way to go for dinner (8 hour round trip) but we wouldn't have missed it. Yesterday, June 16, John Mussell, Phil Mussell and Carol Hartman joined coin and medal dealer Giuseppe Miceli in Northampton to celebrate his 40 years of being in business. Friends, family and business associates…
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