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John White: the Cambridgeshire Connection – Hugh Pagan November 13, 2025
An 1834 William IV Sixpence with a Laboratory Confirmed Multi-Strike Error from the Steam Press Era – A Ikraam November 11, 2025
2025 BNS Student Bursary Report – Elizabeth Lea October 30, 2025
Ballindalloch Works Checks – Eric Hodge October 21, 2025
New die for Edward III coinage London (class 15d) – Gareth O’Keefe October 2, 2025
The Bath (1755) Hoard : The Property of a Visitor from Midland England – Hugh Pagan September 29, 2025
Continental Imitations of Henry III Long Cross class 5F – Mike Shott September 16, 2025
The 1887 Double Florin – Andrew Thorburn September 15, 2025
MCHBI – The Medieval Coin Hoards of Britain and Ireland Database – Three years on… Robert Page & Martin Allen September 11, 2025
A New Mint for Henry VI Leaf Mascle Pennies – Dave Greenhalgh September 4, 2025
A Couple of New Sub-variant Charles I Tower Mint Shillings – Paul Woodard August 21, 2025
A Study into Die Numbers Found on British Half Sovereigns in the Period 1863 – 1880, Part 3 1876 – 1880 – Brian Unsworth LLB July 18, 2025
Twelve Pearl Varieties of Jubilee Head Half Sovereigns, Part 2 – James D. Korp. July 14, 2025
Walter Jonathan Andrew and his Resignation from the Numismatic Society of London – Hugh Pagan July 4, 2025
A Study into Die Numbers Found on British Half Sovereigns in the Period 1863-1880, Part 2 1870-1875 – Brian Unsworth LLB July 1, 2025
The 1997 Baldwin’s Auctions Parcels from a Scandinavian Hoard – Hugh Pagan May 21, 2025
Twelve Pearl Varieties of Jubilee Head Half Sovereigns – James D. Korp May 20, 2025
A Study into Die Numbers Found on British Half Sovereigns in the Period 1863-1880, Part 1 1863-1869 – Brian Unsworth LLB May 9, 2025
The missing denomination “Farthing” from Henry VI Restoration Issue – Simon Hall April 27, 2025
An Unusual Thistle Bank 5/: – Tom Ward and Eric C. Hodge April 25, 2025
A Possible Coin from the Collection of the Notorious Forger John White – Timothy Cook April 23, 2025
The ‘Sizewell C’ or ‘Near Leiston’ hoard: a summary – Alex Bliss, Richard Ambrose, Dr Adrian Marsden and Hugh Pagan April 4, 2025
The 1861 Lower Dunsforth Hoard – Hugh Pagan April 3, 2025
AN APPARENT BUT IMPROBABLE NEW MONEYER FOR HAROLD II – HUGH PAGAN AND PHILIP SHAW March 10, 2025
Presentation and Analysis of a Henry I Overstrike Penny – Lyle Curtis Molina February 7, 2025
O’Neill Money: The Irish “Rebel Money” of the 1640s, the battle flag of the Confederated Catholics, and Eoghan Ruadh Ua Néill – Oisín Mac Conamhna February 5, 2025
Revisiting Some Unusual Edward I Class 1c Pennies – Gary Oddie January 31, 2025
Edward IV Rose Marked Sede Vacante York Pennies – Dave Greenhalgh and Lee Stone January 28, 2025
The Numismatic Value Double Struck Coins can Provide (A Reattribution and an Attribution of two Norman Coins) – Lyle Curtis Molina January 8, 2025
Some Unusual New York Hotel Tokens – Gary Oddie December 20, 2024
An Analysis of Strike Error Coins – Lyle Curtis Molina December 18, 2024
The Langford, Bedfordshire, Hoard 2016, and the Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, Hoard 1892 – Hugh Pagan December 17, 2024
A Millenium of Numismatics at Hexham Church – Gary Oddie December 11, 2024
Changing shape of the florin, 1849–1970 – D. G. Rowe December 9, 2024
Countermarked 1811-12 Silver Shilling Tokens – Gary Oddie November 21, 2024
An Unusual Coin Ticket and a Lead Token: a singular connectivity – David Rampling November 19, 2024
How to Make a Seventeenth-Century Token – Gary Oddie November 7, 2024
Bedfordshire Tokens, Tickets, Checks and Passes – Supplement 2 – Gary Oddie November 6, 2024
Richard Southgate’s Anglo-Saxon Coins – Hugh Pagan October 28, 2024
Two Shillings From Guadeloupe – Or Are They? – Gary Oddie October 28, 2024
The Identification of an Enigmatic 12th Century Penny – Robert Page October 22, 2024
The Welsh Copper Company and its Silver Shillings – Gary Oddie September 20, 2024
Richard Southgate (1729-1795) – Hugh Pagan September 18, 2024
An Intriguing Sterling of John I of Brabant 1268-1294 – Denis Martin September 10, 2024
Card Advertising Tokens c.1930? – Part 4 – Gary Oddie and Kai Towe August 17, 2024
‘Vigorous, Conscientious, Judicious’: the Reverend PrebendaryJoseph William Hamlet, Vicar of Barrington – a Previously Unknown Contributor to British Numismatics – A.G. Bliss August 17, 2024
THE BRITISH MUSEUM’S COLLECTION OF ANGLO-SAXON COINS AS IT EXISTED IN THE MID 1790s – HUGH PAGAN August 9, 2024
Card Advertising Tokens c.1930? Part 3-Gary Oddie and Alan Judd August 6, 2024
A New Halfpenny Die of David II of Scotland’s Second Coinage (1357/8-1367) – Cameron Maclean and Carl Savage August 6, 2024
An Unusual Counterfeit ‘Silver’ Shilling of 1818 – Gary Oddie June 21, 2024
A new female coin collector of the 18th century: Katherine Blount (née Butler) – Andrew Burnett June 21, 2024
A New Mintmark for the Henry VIII York Halfpenny – Lee Stone June 18, 2024
Seeking the Provenance of an Unusual Hiberno-Scandinavian Coin – Robert Page June 8, 2024
The 1962 Dated Proof Sovereign of Elizabeth II – Cameron Maclean May 28, 2024
Boulton’s 1799 Halfpennies and Farthings – Ian Calvert May 28, 2024
Two (or Three?) Identically Pierced Coins of Edward the Confessor’s Sovereign/Eagles type- Hugh Pagan May 21, 2024
A sixth Cork groat of the readeption of Henry VI – Gregory Edmund, Christoffer Gompakis and Oisín Mac Conamhna May 21, 2024
A Die Study of James I Shillings – Second Issue, mm Scallop – Gary Oddie May 17, 2024
A Die Study of Victorian Shillings Dated 1867 – Gary Oddie May 17, 2024
A Second Coin of John Digge from the Canterbury Mint – Mike Shott May 17, 2024
An Unpublished Waterford Penny Type of Edward IV – Oisín Mac Conamhna April 30, 2024
A Die Study of Victorian Shillings Dated 1879 – Gary Oddie April 30, 2024
Two Notes on the Coinage of Harold II – Hugh Pagan April 30, 2024
A Fresh Look at Phase II Hiberno-Scandinavian Pennies – Robert Page April 30, 2024
A Re-evaluation of the Classification of Henry V Pennies – Dave Greenhalgh April 23, 2024
A Die Study of James I Shillings – Second Issue, mm Coronet – Gary Oddie and Michael Thompson April 17, 2024
AEDRIC or AEL(F)RIC : A Canterbury Moneyer For Edward The Confessor’s Facing Bust/Small Cross Type – Hugh Pagan April 17, 2024
A Die Study of Victorian Shillings Dated 1878-Gary Oddie April 9, 2024
Grading Competition – Gary Oddie April 9, 2024
An Unrecorded Pattern Shilling of 1840 – Gary Oddie March 25, 2024
Amos Winch of Shoe Lane – Paul & Bente Withers March 25, 2024
Card Advertising Tokens c.1930? Part 2 – Gary Oddie March 19, 2024
A 17th Century Token Die Engraver’s Conundrum – Jo. Broxup of Manchester – Gary Oddie & Nigel Clark March 8, 2024
‘New Scotch Tokens’ – Tracing the Irish Dissenters’ Ticket to the Table – David S. Dunlop March 7, 2024
Documentary Evidence for Hampshire Seventeenth Century Token Issues – Susan Stewart March 5, 2024
Four Pieces – Seventeenth Century? English? Tokens? – Paul Withers March 3, 2024
An Early Norman Period ‘Productive site’ in Norfolk – Mike Cuddeford March 1, 2024
An Unusual Series of Card Advertising Tokens c.1930? – Gary Oddie February 21, 2024
An Unrecorded Series of Skit Notes – William Seville and his Striking Likenesses – Gary Oddie February 20, 2024
Coins from the Mint at Bury St Edmunds – David Palmer February 19, 2024
Bedfordshire Tokens, Tickets, Checks and Passes – Supplement 1- Gary Oddie February 18, 2024
Henry VI Restored: A New Legend for the Halfpenny – Lee Stone February 17, 2024
A Contemporary Forgery of a Henry V Groat – Josh Cattermole January 28, 2024
An Edward IV Dublin (?) penny with cinquefoils by neck – Oisín Mac Conamhna and James Mayer January 27, 2024
As much as will lay upon a sixpence – Laura Burnett January 4, 2024
Mints and Moneyers of Edward The Confessor’s Sovereign/Eagles Type – Hugh Pagan December 30, 2023
A fifth Cork groat of the readeption of Henry VI – Oisín Mac Conamhna and Jack Pope December 29, 2023
A Christmas Shilling From Manchester, 2013 – Gary Oddie December 16, 2023
From Beldibi to Bedfordshire – 11,000 Years of Tokens Part 3. Coming Full Circle – Gary Oddie December 8, 2023
From Beldibi to Bedfordshire – 11,000 Years of Tokens Part 2. Pushing the Boundaries – Gary oddie December 7, 2023
From Beldibi to Bedfordshire – 11,000 Years of Tokens Part 1. What is a Token? – Gary Oddie December 6, 2023
A Currently Unique Coin of John Digge on Canterbury – Ian Heavisides November 14, 2023
A Contemporary Counterfeit Irish Base Shilling of Elizabeth I, c.1559 – Gary Oddie November 12, 2023
Isaac Desborough of Eltisley (Cambridgeshire W/D 100) – Gary Oddie November 10, 2023
WARNING – Deceptive Medieval Counterfeit Silver – Henry IV Half Groat – Gary Oddie and Dave Greenhalgh November 7, 2023
The Posthumous Coinage of Henry III, and the Enigmatic Class 6x – Robert Page November 5, 2023
A Day at the Museum – Part (ii) Moving The Shillington Hoard – Gary Oddie October 9, 2023
The Kilkenny West, Co. Westmeath, Hoard of Coins of Eadgar – Hugh Pagan September 29, 2023
A Henry V or VI York Penny Conundrum – Addendum – Dave Greenhalgh September 26, 2023
BNS Museum Student Placement 2023 – Jennifer Webster September 26, 2023
A Die Study of James I Shillings – Second Issue, mm Key – Gary Oddie and Michael Thompson September 23, 2023
The Coinage of Pontefract – by M&H Coins September 22, 2023
A Day at the Museum – Part (i) The Search for the Lesser Elongated Squirrel September 21, 2023
A Die Study of James I Shillings – Second Issue, mm Bell – Gary Oddie and Michael Thompson September 19, 2023
Tokens Used by Bedfordshire Market Gardeners – Gary Oddie September 3, 2023
The Seringapatam Medal: Celebrating the Victory over Tippu Sultan – T. S. Suryanarayanan September 1, 2023
On Collectors and Museums Part 1. Some Historical Opinions and Correspondence – Gary Oddie August 27, 2023
Illustrating Buckinghamshire Seventeenth Century Tokens – Gary Oddie August 26, 2023
Boxed Coins Issued for Jubilees and Coronations – Gary Oddie August 25, 2023
A New Die Pair for Edward III Berwick Pennies by G. O’Keefe, D. I. Greenhalgh & D. Martin August 24, 2023
A Henry V or VI York Penny Conundrum – Dave Greenhalgh August 23, 2023
Roderick Maingy Murchison 1830-1873 – Hugh Pagan August 14, 2023
The Obverse Die for the Macniven and Cameron Imitation Spade Guinea c.1970 – Gary Oddie August 13, 2023
Unrecorded 17th Century Tokens From W.S. Lincoln & Son – Gary Oddie August 11, 2023
“So, how rare is my coin?” – Rob Page August 7, 2023
An Unpublished Variety and Moneyer for the Romney Mint – Lindsay Hardcastle August 5, 2023
Seventeenth Century Glasshouses – Gary Oddie August 5, 2023
A Die Study of James I Shillings – Second Issue, mm Mullet – Gary Oddie and Michael Thompson August 3, 2023
A Seventeenth Century Truck System – Thomas Renolds of Colchester (Essex W/D 143) – Gary Oddie August 1, 2023
The Find Spot for a Hampshire Hoard of Coins of Edward the Confessor and Harold II Untangled – Hugh Pagan July 18, 2023
Observations on Die Sets and Die Sinker Errors – Mike Shott July 17, 2023
The last Henry VI Halfpenny of Calais? – Alan Dunlop July 10, 2023
A Machine-Made Contemporary Counterfeit of a Scottish Charles I Turner, Made in London – Gary Oddie July 10, 2023
BNS Hoards Conference, Sat. July 15th, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford – Speakers and Topics July 10, 2023
The Dies and Chronology of Charles I Oxford Mint Sixpences – J. Davidson. July 9, 2023
A New Type of Edward IV First Reign Canterbury Penny – Dave Greenhalgh July 6, 2023
A Die Study of Victorian Shillings Dated 1865 : Part 3 – Contemporary Counterfeits – Gary Oddie July 6, 2023
A Die Study of Victorian Shillings Dated 1865… Part 2 – The Die Numbers – Gary Oddie July 5, 2023
A Die Study of James I Shillings – Second Issue, mm Tower – Gary Oddie and Michael Thompson July 4, 2023
Contemporary Counterfeit Shillings of James I, 1603-1625, Circulating to 1696-7 – Gary Oddie July 3, 2023
The Chronology of The Preparation of Plates For Martin Folkes’s Writings on English Gold and Silver Coins – Hugh Pagan June 29, 2023
A New Type for Henry VI York Restoration Pence – Timothy Cook and Dave Greenhalgh June 27, 2023
Silver Tazzae by Mappin and Webb and attributed to Percy Metcalfe – designer of the “Thrift” Brass Threepence – Graham Birch June 26, 2023
A Fourth Specimen of the Putative Coinage of Willibrord – Tony Abramson and Ype de Jong June 17, 2023
Three Recently Added New Features on the Medieval Coin Hoards Website, MCHBI – Rob Page June 12, 2023
Edward IV: A Second Reign London Farthing – Lee Stone June 10, 2023
Manorial money? Three unusual lead tokens from St Mary Bourne, Hampshire – A.G. Bliss June 9, 2023
John Nicholas Cross Collection : Coins in the Names of Eighth and Ninth Century Kings of Northumbria and Archbishops of York – Hugh Pagan June 2, 2023
The Bank of England Guard – Gary Oddie May 31, 2023
A Die Study of James I Shillings – Second Issue, mm Trefoil – Gary Oddie May 29, 2023
An Unrecorded Anne Shilling Overdate – 1703/2 – Gary Oddie May 27, 2023
A Die Study of James I Shillings – Second Issue, mm Cinquefoil – Gary Oddie May 25, 2023
How to Kill Two Birds with One Stone – Tony Abramson May 24, 2023
Unrecorded White Metal 18th Century Tokens – Part 4 – Gary Oddie May 23, 2023
Confirmation of a Charles I Tower Sixpence Sub-Variety – John Davidson May 20, 2023
A New Merovingian Tremissis – Tony Abramson May 19, 2023
A new Ipswich reverse die in the Last Small Cross issue of Æthelred II – A.G. Bliss May 10, 2023
Henry III Posthumous Class 7 Pennies, Obverse Die Types – Rob Page May 6, 2023
Conference: Coin Hoards – Discovery and Interpretation, Oxford, 15th July. May 5, 2023
Thomas Witheridge – Mariner and Slaver, Bristol – Gary Oddie April 25, 2023