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Http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/coinagemeasurement.html
Quote: BACKGROUND
4. When the United Kingdom bid to host the Olympic Games in London in 2012, an
undertaking was given to the International Olympic Committee that if the bid was
successful...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at vote-2007):
What I saw that and....
The Royal Mint agreed with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games to strike commemorative coins with a standard weight of one kilogram or more .
My mum used to do the checking required by that act .
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Looks like I'm pushing my sixpence collection further back in time. Are these the only portrait versions? And are these the 'proper' names?
Started by ArrowsAndRays on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at coincommunity):
And yes, those are the usual names....
Young head or "Bun"
Gothic Head
Jubilee head
Old head There weren't any "Gothic sixpences", so yes, those three are all you will find in that series .
Arrosandrays
There are actualy 4 diferant portraits Of Queen Victoria.
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I'm sorry but if I was a king and ordered some coins to be minted and they turned up with this. I would chop all their heads off....what on earth!
Its more like a 3 year olds drawing!
Considering hundreds of years before the romans had coins of this caliber...
Started by Beany_bot on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at metaldetectingforum):
The top one is an ESSO coin of Wayne Rooney after the hair graft One mans rubbish is another mans treasure
Digging them up is always a pleasure A you ! Leave Wayne... .
Lol! There must have been a shortage of artistic talent in those days!
A What larks, Pip .
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Hello all,
My first post here after being a longtime lurker.
Here's the deal -
I know nothing absolutely of Chinese coinage and I'm hoping that someone might know a bit more then myself. What I have found out so far...
Tang Chi-Yao, Yunnan province. Likely...
Started by SpareHuman on
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by 2 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at coincommunity):
In a better condition that could be 3rd party....
It seems legitimate, though the bust looks perhaps a little off, I think its just the scan .
Not the most common coin, though not particularly scarce.
Your coin is Yunnan 50 cash, No date but made around 1920 .
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I have quite a few coins collected from the pre-decimal period - ha'pennies, pennies, thrupennies, sixpences, shillings, florins and half crowns. Also a farthing and some crowns (5 shillings) introduced for special occasions.
What an extraordinary monetary...
Started by Northumbrian on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at democracyforum):
I think we up with Imperial coinage....
Decimal coinage just seems so easy!
It certainly confused the immigrants.
Decimal coinage just seems so easy, shillings and pence.
And accounts were written in 3 columns - pounds, shillings and pence .
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I honestly never thought of the day I would even obtain one of Peter III copper coins because of the scarcity and price, much less obtaining the entire set!
Here are the pictures:
Peter III copper coinages were scarce for a good reason - Peter III only...
Started by gxseries on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at coincommunity):
One of the rarer overstruck coin would be the 1763-1766 1 ... .
Svslav, please feel free to fire them away.
Very cool coins! gx, I will forever envy your collection!
I have some overstruck Russian coppers I need to research, but they are from early 1700's .
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at collectors):
In all essential respects.
When they stopped putting any amount of silver in circulating coinage.
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Hello everyone,
I want to buy a slot machine, but I would like to use it with Euros.
All the machines are adaptables?
Any suggestion for model or maker?
Thank you very much.
Started by Oskargasteiz on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at pennymachines):
You would get away with running a 2 cent coin on a Jubilee mk1 on 6d, without having to hack the machine but payouts would be incorrect... .
A Euro is very thick in depth, I cannot think of any old UK denomination coin that comes close to the thickness of a Euro .
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Hello,
I have a question about this set (the one with the Sacagawea dollar, Silver Eagle, and dollar bill). What I don't understand is, I see this set going for ~70 dollars on multiple websites; however, when I go on eBay, the graded (MS69) Silver Eagle...
Started by Mrent on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at coincommunity):
The run....
I forget)...Which makes getting any of these coins in a PCGS holder or NGC holder a +$30-$40 proposition .
Simple enough to answer:
the cost to grade the sac or the eagle is $14 + $16.95 for shipping (there might even be a handling fee of $8.. .
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New 5p and 10p pieces won't work in parking meters, vending machines or pay phones | Mail Online
Started by zeitghost on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at contractoruk):
Who on earth still uses a payphone? Even then most i see these days are card only Originally Posted by SimonMac Who on earth still uses a payphone? Even... .
The reason for this difference is due to 'technical issues', according the Royal Mint and Treasury .
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