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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...

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...

Local knowledge AS some of you may know, after my Chaplains collection was sold I struggled for some time to find a decent “theme” to base my collecting on; after a while I settled for two themes, both tried and tested ones—surname and town. Very simple, very straightforward, I’m collecting any...

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...

Something of a rarity IT TOOK a while, but we finally have the design for the Coronation Medal! Although why it took so long to be unveiled is something of a mystery, as it hardly breaks with tradition and doesn’t seem like something that would have needed to be pored over endlessly or debated...

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...

Fair or not? AS we go to press, we learn that there is to be NO Orders and Medals Research Society (OMRS) Annual Convention this year. This is not unexpected inasmuch that we would normally have heard long before now were a Convention to have been in the offing. To be honest, we aren’t...

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...

Happy birthday to us . . . SOMEHOW, it is April 2023 and that means that Token Publishing Ltd is 40 years old! We officially became a limited company on April 5, 1983, and somehow, four decades later, we are still here! We’ve come a long, long way in those 40 years, from publishing just one...

Happy birthday to us… SOMEHOW it is April 2023 and that means that Token Publishing Ltd is 40 years old! We officially became a limited company on April 3, 1983, and somehow, four decades later, we are still here! We’ve come a long, long way in those 40 years, from publishing just one title,...