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February 10, 2025
6 Pence 1816 to 1901 - Price Guide and values
The Royal Mint undertook a massive recoinage programme in 1816, with large quantities of gold and silver coin being minted. Previous issues of silver coinage had been irregular, and the previous issue, minted in 1787, had done little to alleviate the chronic shortage of silver coinage in general circulation.
February 4, 2025
1 Pound 1983 to 2025 - Price Guide and values
By 1980, it had become apparent, that with the general decline in purchasing power, the £1 unit of currency was more appropriate to a coin than a banknote. The note was in constant use and, on average, each note only lasted nine months. Through the years, multiple reverse designs were used for this denomination. In October 2023, the King Charles III 1 Pound coin was presented; the coin design features bees.
February 4, 2025
4 Pence 1836 to 1888 - Price Guide and values
The 4 Pence British coin, sometimes known as a groat, joey or fourpenny bit, was struck throughout the 18th century, though by 1800 it had come mostly to be coined to be given as ceremonial alms at the Royal Maundy service. It was resurrected as a circulating coin in 1836, as the Royal Mint sought to fill the gap between the penny and sixpence. A final issue of fourpences, intended for use in British Guiana, was dated 1888.
February 1, 2025
2001 Victoria £5 Coin to Celebrates the Image of an Era
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, more than 2,000 million United Kingdom coins had been produced by the Royal Mint bearing her portrait. For most of Queen Victoria's subjects, the depiction of their Queen on coins was one of the few ways in which they would have known what she looked like. And during her 64-year reign, the changing portraits on the coinage reflected the Queen as she moved from a young woman, to a mother of nine and a widow in mourning.
January 31, 2025
Half Farthing 1828 to 1856 - Price Guide and values
The coins were minted in copper for use in British Ceylon in various years between 1828 and 1856, and as a bronze proof coin in 1868. In 1842, they were also declared legal tender in the United Kingdom. Half farthings were demonetised along with all other British copper coins on 31 December 1869.