Coin News

John William Mussell 1942–2023

A lasting legacy, unchanged TOKEN Publishing Ltd has been around for 40 years now, and at the helm throughout those four decades has been John Mussell, Managing Editor first of COIN & MEDAL NEWS (from 1983–89) then of two separate magazines (COIN NEWS and MEDAL NEWS) from 1989 onwards. In...

All in the details A VERY interesting article by Neil Paisley, Managing Director of Baldwin’s, dropped into our inbox recently (if you don’t subscribe to the Baldwin’s newsletters you really should—visit www. baldwin.co.uk). The article concerned third-party grading (slabbing in other parlance),...

Hold on to it I APOLOGISE in advance for this month’s “Comment”, for this is a drum I have beaten before and many of you will, I suspect, wonder why I am doing so again. No, it’s not my endless campaign to get people to coin fairs (in part that seems to be working, the recent London Coin Fair...

The Royal Mint is marking the 75th anniversary of HMT Empire Windrush arriving in the United Kingdom by collaborating with artist Valda Jackson to create a commemorative 50p. The coin’s design created by Jackson, who was born in St. Thomas, Jamaica, and moved to England in 1964, depicts two...

Missing out ONE of the consequences of any big event these days is the plethora of souvenir memorabilia that accompanies it. From mugs to tea-towels, from postcards to silly hats and, of course, coins. Royal events, such as the recent Coronation, have been magnets for such memorabilia since...

A guiding hand SO, the Harrogate show has come and gone once more and whilst it wasn’t the busiest of fairs (it never is compared to other fairs in Yorkshire, no idea why and I wish more people would support it, if you don’t it won’t be around forever) it was nevertheless enjoyable. Harrogate is a...