Make a bid at The Royal Mint’s latest trial pieces auction, and you could be in with a chance of owning some of the UK’s ...
The pre-decimal six pence as equaled one fortieth to a pound sterling or six pence sterling ... The 1952 six pence is a British coin featuring King George VI and is made of cupro-nickel.
For five centuries in England, until 1280, silver pennies were the only Royal coins in ... coins were the sterling issues based on the English denominations that were issued until 1709 with the "E" ...
Several dozen other coins, made of an alloy of gold, silver and copper, come from what is now Great Britain and were stamped ...
Credit: National Museum of Antiquities of the Netherlands Two metal detectorists in the Netherlands have found a hoard of ...
A unique combination” of Roman and British coins was uncovered in the Netherlands, highlighting the importance of Lower Germanic Limes in the Roman’s quest to conquer Britannia. Never before has such ...
Silver coins are highly prized by dealers and collectors — not just because of their silver content, but also because they tend to be scarcer than coins minted with copper, nickel, zinc and ...
Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver ... The coins are thousands of years old, the Netherlands' Cultural Heritage Agency said in a news release, and are a mix of Roman and British coins.
The area where the coins were discovered was a site from which the Romans had prepared for first crossing to Britain. open image in gallery Last year, dozens of 1,000-year-old Viking silver ...
A haul of more than 400 coins from the early Roman era has been discovered by two metal detector enthusiasts near Utrecht. The gold and silver pieces date from 46 ... as a “unique combination of Roman ...
Some of the coins are decorated with the name of the Celtic king Cunobelinus.Credit: RMO Researchers have discovered that 44 of the gold and silver coins ... of Roman and British coins" which ...