The Gold Sovereign A brief history, with technical specifications. Gold sovereigns are probably the world's most famous and recognisable coins.We are limited to 10 images per review, so we have created...
Commemorative Banknotes - What you need to know? Unless you have been buying or selling banknotes, in other words have experience in the banknote market on eBay, you may end up paying over the odds for a...
Buyer beware of offers for the "last chance" to buy Royal Bank of Scotland £1 notes, the bank is still issuing them, and has no plans to withdraw this denomination. You can get them for £1 from almost all...
UK Buyers and Banks and Iraqi Dinar This is only a short guide, purely my opinion and not a complaint, more a bit of friendly advice that I have found myself through buying Iraqi dinar and other popular...
Spellings on eBay Is good spelling important? How many eBay listings contain really bad spellngs? Does it matter?We often despair at many of the spellings on eBay. Some of them are so bad that we find...
1960 New York Exhibition Commemorative Crown The 1960 Crown was struck to celebrate the British Exhibition in New York in 1960. Amongst other British manufacturers, the Royal Mint had a stand, on which they...
Gold Coins Four millennia of gold coin production and use - a brief history.The First Gold Coins Lydia 643 BC In about 643 to 630 B.C., the Lydians had started to produce the first coins. They were quite...
Inscriptions (Legends) on British Coins + Translations One quick way to identify coins is to read the writing on them. Often this will instantly tell you much about the coin, perhaps all you need to know....
Five Guineas - The Largest Most Valuable British Gold Coin British Milled Gold Coinage and The Story of the Five-Guinea Piece.This guide is reproduced from our "24carat" website.Obverse Reverse of 1687 James...
The Gold Sovereign A brief history, with technical specifications. Gold sovereigns are probably the world's most famous and recognisable coins.We are limited to 10 images per review, so we will create...