Rare £2 coin worth over £1,200 - and it's linked to a surprising event
The commemorative coin was released by the Royal Mint in 1996, to mark the 10th European football championship held in the UK ...
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'One of the rarest modern coins' sells for £4,500
A private seller found the coin and asked the Britannia Coin Company (BCC), based in Royal Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire, to sell it on their behalf. Christopher Collects, a coin expert who works ...
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Rare Royal Mint £2 coin sells for more than £1,200 - and it's got a surprising theme
If you assumed that all £2 coins were merely valued at £2, you'd be mistaken. Remarkably, one such coin could fetch a ...
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Rare Edward III gold coins found in Hambleden hoard
British Museum curator Barrie Cook said there had been only 12 known examples of the 1346 and 1351 Edward III gold nobles before the 2019 finds. The coins have been declared treasure by ...
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Rare £2 coins worth 17 times their face value - how to spot them
925 sterling silver with a band of fine gold plating around the edge reminiscent of the Two Pounds in your change," disclosed the Britannia Coin Company. Initially released at about £49 a pop ...
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Rare coin could be worth £200,000 – how to spot if you have it
Coin collectors are on the hunt for a rare British coin which could be worth ... REX FIDEI DEF’. On the reverse Britannia is seated with heraldic shield and trident with the words ‘ONE PENNY ...
Britons cash in on gold price boom by selling it to the Royal Mint - how to buy AND sell bullion
When we think about gold bullion we tend to think about solid gold bars, perhaps due to the influence of classic films such ...
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Hoard of 11th-century coins valued over $5 million to be on display at British museum
Discovered by a group of friends five years ago, an unprecedented hoard of 11th-century coins, valued at $5.58 million, will soon to be on display at The British Museum in London. On Tuesday ...
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A New Corpus of Roman Coins from England and Wales. An Overview of the Evidence and Analysis of the Data
University of Reading [email protected] This paper considers a new corpus of 490,154 Roman coins (site finds) which have been recorded from England and Wales. The corpus provides British ...