General News

We at TOKEN PUBLISHING LTD would like to wish all of our customers, past and present a very happy and prosperous 2004

Unfortunately Gremlins struck in the "What's On" this month with us giving the date of AMP's next cardiff Fair as December 7 - it isn't the fair takes place at Cardiff City Hall on December 13. Any further queries about this or any other of their fairs contact AMP on 01953 597587

The latest in the series of Baldwins' highly popular Argentum sales has, unfortunately, had to be postponed. The recent unofficial postal strike meant that thousands of catalogues could not be sent out and the auctioneers felt that it was unfair to go ahead with the sale when not everybody had had...

The MOD has announced a number of Awards for Operation Telic - the war in Iraq. They include a George Cross for saving life during a "friendly fire" incident, a KBE, 5 CBEs, 7 DSos, 2 CGCs, 2 AFCs, 1 DSC and numerous MCs, DFCs - the full list can be found at the following website: ...

Due to unforeseen circumstances Andrew Hartley Auctioneers have had to postpone their December 3rd sale as advertised in COIN NEWS November. They are hoping to re-shedule early in 2004 and we will let readers know of that new date as soon as possible.

It was reported in some newspapers on July 9 that there was indeed to be a medal awarded for service in the War against Saddam/WAr against Iraq/Gulf War II/ call it what you will. At this stage it is unclear whether theaward will be an entirely new medal as it was in 1991 with the first Gulf War...

The fabulous Slaney Collection came under the Hammer at Spink in May and records tumbled left, right and centre - with the wonderfaul example of Thomas Simon's Pettion Crown fetching £138,000 a record for an English Silver Coin. See July's COIN NEWS for further details with a full Auction report...

The beginning of March sees the Token Team flying East for the Asia Money Fair to be held at Suntec City, Singapore over the weekend of March 7-9. This show is increasing in popularity every year and attracts visitors from all over South East Asia and Australasia. It's well worth a visit if you are...

Due to the pressure of our many weekend fairs it has been decided to close the token Publishing office at 3 0'clock on a Friday. this will at least allow us a head start on the traffic and hopefully allow us to get to wherever we are going in good time - Devon is a lovely place to be based but it...