Don't Devalue Your Coins By Cleaning and/or Polishing Them This is a short guide to explain why the numismatic world frowns upon cleaned coins and those that perpetrate the deed. If you are considering the...
Three Good Reasons for Collecting Crown Coins; The Crown is normally the largest silver coin issued during most reigns. Crowns have generally been struck in large enough quantities to enable a...
The original value of the United Kingdom Crown was Five Shillings. Queen Elizabeth II Crowns come in two values, namely five shilling or twenty-five pence and five pounds. The reason for this is because as...
Facts and Data about Platinum Platinum is a dense (heavy) hard silvery metallic element, a precious metal used in jewellery, coins, chemical engineering, and a catalyst used in industry and for car exhausts....
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...
The lucky Sixpence The first sixpence was minted in the reign of Edward VI 1551 and the last general issue was in 1967, though the sixpence remained legal tender until 1980. Until 1920 sixpences were silver...
As an irish man i had been looking for a cd to buy and play at a party i had arranged for the whole of my family, that represented our irish heritage! Upon buying this cd i listened to and and was amazed at...
Crown History Crowns were minted in all reigns between Elizabeth I of England and Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. The Queen Victoria 'Gothic' crown from 1847 (mintage just 8,000 and produced to celebrate...