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Numismatics and the Fortsas Library Sale of 1840 – Gary Oddie July 6, 2021
New and Unusual Hairdressers’ Tokens – Gary Oddie July 4, 2021
The Holdens: a Family of Utterers and Coiners in Nineteenth Century Lancashire – Stephen Minnitt June 25, 2021
Prince Louis Penny of London – Josh Catermole June 24, 2021
Henry Cotton, Dean of Lismore, Coin Collector – Hugh Pagan June 24, 2021
The ‘ED PERTH’ mint signature on the coins of Robert II – David Rampling June 24, 2021
Die Sinkers Signatures on the Long Cross Coinage of Henry III – Ian Heavisides June 13, 2021
An Unusual Ballindalloch Countermark – Eric C. Hodge June 9, 2021
An Early Reference to A Caroli Fortuna Resurgam Scarborough Siege Piece – Hugh Pagan June 6, 2021
Henry III (Posthumous) Class 7 Pennies – Part 5, Phelip of London, Die Illustrations -Robert Page June 5, 2021
BNS Video: The last golden age of British Numismatics; Reflections from the Stewartby Archive of English numismatic papers – Dr. William Day June 2, 2021
Henry III (Posthumous) Class 7 Pennies from the London Mint – Part 4: Phelip – Rob Page May 31, 2021
Home Rule for Wales and Scotland – Unusual Overprint – Gary Oddie May 27, 2021
A Paranumismatic History of Wood Saws – Gary Oddie May 21, 2021
Contemporary Counterfeits of Durham House Shillings of Edward VI – Gary Oddie May 18, 2021
Poor Quality Control at Kempson’s Manufactory? – Denis Martin May 16, 2021
Admiral George Brydges Rodney – (iv) Success to The Lord Rodney – Gary Oddie May 14, 2021
Admiral George Brydges Rodney (iii) Contemporary Medals etc – Gary Oddie May 13, 2021
Admiral George Brydges Rodney (ii) Later Tokens and a Coin – Gary Oddie May 12, 2021
Charles I – The coinage of Newark,1645-46 – Alan Worby May 11, 2021
Admiral George Brydges Rodney (i) History and Contemporary Tokens – Gary Oddie May 11, 2021
Crisis in the Eastern Channel: the transformation in Iron Age/Celtic coinage wrought by Cæsar – David Swan May 1, 2021
A Commonwealth Bronze Mortar design inspired by the Domestic Coinage – Graham Birch April 28, 2021
An Unrecorded Penny Variant of the Drogheda Mint, from the Second Cross & Pellets Coinage of Edward IV, 1470-3 – Oisín Mac Conamhna April 27, 2021
An Undated James I Sixpence – J. Davidson April 25, 2021
New Short Cross Class 1a dies for Turkil of York – Robert Page & Glenn P. Gittoes April 19, 2021
A Waterford Penny of Richard III (1483-85) – Oisín Mac Conamhna, Robert Page & Alan Smith April 17, 2021
The Numismatic Ancestors of Francis Cokayne – Gary Oddie April 5, 2021
Two ‘New’ Varieties of Edward III Pre-Treaty Series Pennies – Duncan Russell April 3, 2021
Atypical single-cross sterlings of Alexander III – David Rampling March 29, 2021
Vagaries and constants of epigraphy and design in the single-cross sterlings of Alexander III – David Rampling March 29, 2021
The classification of single-cross sterlings of Alexander III – David Rampling March 29, 2021
Mints and Moneyers of the Expanding Cross type of Edward the Confessor – Hugh Pagan March 27, 2021
A New Type of Shovel Board Shilling – Gary Oddie March 24, 2021
A Richard II Early Type IB Penny from York – Duncan Russell March 20, 2021
The Case of John Orme – Gary Oddie March 20, 2021
A Modern Copy of an Edward VI Fine Shilling – Philip Mernick and Gary Oddie March 14, 2021
The Publications of Thomas Violet – Gary Oddie March 14, 2021
Edward III 4th Coinage Pre-Treaty Period Series Gb / Gf Mule Penny, London Mint – Duncan Russell March 13, 2021
An Unlisted ‘Irish’ Medieval Jetton – A. G. Bliss February 28, 2021
A Guide for Identifying Some Variants of the Crux Penny of Æthelred II – W.M.D. Castle February 27, 2021
Counterfeit Round Pound Coins (v) Loose Ends – Gary Oddie February 24, 2021
Some Observations on the Class 6a2 Pennies of Edward I – Denis Martin February 18, 2021
A New Henry III Long Cross Coin of Robert from the London Mint – M. Shott February 15, 2021
The Banknotes issued by J. Wilkinson of Ipswich in 1796-7 – Gary Oddie February 10, 2021
Some Insights into Medieval Die Production and Die Life – Part 2 – Die cutting – Dave Greenhalgh January 31, 2021
Counterfeit Round Pound Coins (iv) More Unusual Issues – Gary Oddie January 30, 2021
Counterfeit Round Pound Coins (iii) Brass Issues – G. Oddie January 29, 2021
Counterfeit Round Pound Coins (ii) Unusual Issues – G. Oddie January 28, 2021
Counterfeit Round Pound Coins (i) Lead Alloy Issues – G. Oddie January 27, 2021
Some Insights into Medieval Die Production and Die Life – Part 1 – D.I. Greenhalgh January 26, 2021
New Dies for Elizabeth I 1573 Acorn Initial Mark Threepence’s – Dave Greenhalgh January 20, 2021
A Peculiar Series of Reverse Die Cutting Errors or Privy Marking of Edward I Class 1c Pennies January 16, 2021
Jamaica ‘Type X’ Countermark – A Modern Fake – K. V. Eckardt January 13, 2021
Edward III Pennies of York with Saltire-in-Quatrefoil Reverse – Mike Cuddeford January 9, 2021
The ‘Crown’ Quartered Series B Groat – A False Start to Edward III’s Fourth Coinage? – Duncan Russell January 8, 2021
Caveat Emptor – Even with Slabbed Coins – By K. V. Eckardt January 7, 2021
Some Dangerous Modern Forgeries of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Pence – A.G. Bliss January 2, 2021
Caveat Emptor II: Modern Forgeries of Richard II – D. I. Greenhalgh January 2, 2021
Caveat Emptor: Some Modern Fakes of Henry III Long Cross Pennies – Rob Page January 1, 2021
The Coinage of Caratacus – Mike Cuddeford December 27, 2020
Iconic Sceats – Tony Abramson December 26, 2020
Henry III (Posthumous) Class 7 Pennies, Part 3 – The Dies of Renaud of London – Robert Page December 22, 2020
The Medals of Abraham Abramson – Tony Abramson December 18, 2020
Numismatic Material of Beonna’s Interlace Type – Tony Abramson December 14, 2020
A vital clue in establishing Northumbrian chronology for early pennies – Tony Abramson December 13, 2020
Tumbledown Dick or Richard IV? – The Story Behind the Coin – Barry Lord December 8, 2020
Iron Age Coinage in Essex – Mike Cuddeford December 4, 2020
A Search into Rarity (2) – The Testoons of Henry VII – Gary Oddie, David Holt and Colin Pitchfork December 2, 2020
The Coinage of Henry VII – Mike Cuddeford November 29, 2020
Ring Money – Fact or Fiction? November 28, 2020
The Spatial Distribution of Coins within the Plough Zone Horizon – Mike Cuddeford November 16, 2020
A further legend variant for Edward III Treaty Period Halfpence – Duncan Russell November 16, 2020
A new legend variant for Edward III Treaty Period halfpence – D.I Greenhalgh November 14, 2020
Henry III Long Cross – The Subdivision of Class 3d – Ian Heavisides & Rob Page October 31, 2020
Identifying Die Duplicates – Ian Heavisides October 30, 2020
Two Contemporary Notices of Counterfeiting – Gary Oddie October 21, 2020
A Mint Error Conundrum – D. I. Greenhalgh October 20, 2020
A New Legend Reading for Edward III Florin Coinage Halfpence – D. Greenhalgh October 13, 2020
An Unusual Counterfeit Base Shilling of Edward VI – Gary Oddie October 9, 2020
New Dies for the Moneyer Odo at Bury St Edmunds – A.G. Bliss October 4, 2020
A Second Specimen of the Early Class 7 Coin of Renavd of London as reported in this Blog, October 2018 – Bob Thomas October 2, 2020
The Rise of The Standard Catalogue – Gary Oddie September 30, 2020
The George III 1818 8 over 7 Half Sovereign – An often mis-identified rarity. Graham Warboys. September 29, 2020
Charles I Shillings of the York Mint (ii) Counterfeits – Gary Oddie September 18, 2020
Henry III (Posthumous), Class 7 Pennies from the London Mint, Part Two – Moneyer Renaud – Robert Page September 17, 2020
Harry Manville and BNJ and NC Offprints – Hugh Pagan September 15, 2020
The Lombardic n in York pennies of Edward I Class 3f – Denis Martin September 2, 2020
Henry III (Posthumous), Class 7 Pennies from the London Mint – Rob Page August 30, 2020
Charles I Shillings of the York Mint (i) Official Issues – Gary Oddie August 21, 2020
Britain’s Deplorable Coinage – Not Fit For Purpose – Graham Birch. August 15, 2020
A new farthing reverse die for David II of Scotland’s first issue – Carl Savage August 7, 2020
A New Variety of Light Coinage Henry IV Halfpenny – Alex Bliss August 4, 2020
A New Obverse Variety of Henry V Halfpenny for Withers Type 9 – Alex Bliss August 2, 2020
Bedwyn to (or from?) Watchet: A Remarkable Instance of Die Alteration on a Penny of Edward the Confessor – David Guest, With comments by Stewart Lyon July 23, 2020
Coin Hoards July 23, 2020
Laurie Asher Lawrence and his First Collection, Part II: The manuscript Catalogue – Hugh Pagan July 22, 2020
Laurie Asher Lawrence and his First Collection, Part I: Professional Life, Playing Cards, Family, Houses – Hugh Pagan July 15, 2020
A Notice of Counterfeiting and Punishment from 1653 – Gary Oddie July 9, 2020
Exchange of dies between London and Canterbury in the 1290’s – Denis Martin July 8, 2020
Celtic coins published by John White – David Rampling June 24, 2020
British Coins and their links to the West African slave trade – Graham Birch June 23, 2020
Elias Neel Jersey Bank Token of 1812 – Hugh Pagan June 8, 2020
An Interesting Re-cut Penny Reverse Die for Early Edward II – D. I. Greenhalgh May 27, 2020
An Interesting “Fine Work” Shilling of Charles 1? – David Holt May 26, 2020
Manville Type 115. Is it Genuine or Fake? – Tom Ward and Eric C. Hodge May 24, 2020
King John’s Pellets: Die-cutter Signatures? – Robert Page May 16, 2020
The Laxfield Hoard: Some puzzles explained but not yet resolved – Hugh Pagan May 12, 2020
Henry III – Long Cross Penny – A Challenging Piece – A striker’s foible or just an undetected error? – Ian M. Heavisides and Robert Page May 11, 2020
Correction of an Ownership Misconception – Tom Ward & Eric C. Hodge April 16, 2020
A new Crockard type for John of Avesnes – Glenn Schaap & Denis Martin April 5, 2020
A Newly Discovered Cut Halfpenny Struck for Henry of Anjou, and some Observations on Die Variants for Mack’s type 253 – A.G. Bliss April 5, 2020
A New Reverse Type for Edward III Reading Halfpenny – D.I. Greenhalgh April 3, 2020
The 1943 East Africa Shilling – Gary Oddie April 1, 2020
Two Unusual Counterfeit Victorian Shillings – Gary Oddie March 29, 2020
A new variant of late Henry VI halfpenny – D.I. Greenhalgh. March 25, 2020
A Mid-Nineteenth Century Hoard of Counterfeit Silver Coins – Gary Oddie March 24, 2020
Henry III Long Cross Pennies – Analysis of the Use of the Letter “H” for an “N” – Robert Page March 23, 2020
Dies for a Fantasy Bristol Public Free Libraries Token – Gary Oddie March 18, 2020
Insights into a die breakup for a Charles I Aberystwyth threepence – D.I. Greenhagh March 7, 2020
An Addition to the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 35: Scottish Coins in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow – Cameron Maclean February 29, 2020
Ballindalloch Works Checks revisited – Further Contemporary Documentation Discovered – Eric C. Hodge February 10, 2020
A new obverse local die from the Durham mint of Edward I – Denis Martin January 31, 2020
A Pewter Oddity from the Thames Foreshore – A G Bliss January 30, 2020
Short Cross Coins from the Rhuddlan mint. January 20, 2020
A New Moneyer for the Mint of Aylesbury – R. Ambrose. January 15, 2020
A New Reverse Legend for Rigold’s Series I/C Groat-Sized ‘Boy Bishop’ Tokens – A. G. Bliss January 3, 2020
An Interesting Over date / Die-Sinkers Error For 1561 Threepence’s – D.I. Greenhalgh December 19, 2019
A Probable Lis – Pellet Issue Halfpenny of Henry VI – D. I. Greenhalgh December 15, 2019
Summarising the corpus of ‘Watford’ type pence from the Sussex mint of Rye, with discussion of a newly discovered cut halfpenny – A.G. Bliss. December 14, 2019
A New Sub Variety of Edward I Penny Class 3a London Mint – D. I. Greenhalgh December 13, 2019
A Guide to the Long Cross Pennies of Henry III (and Edward I) – Rob Page December 13, 2019
Dominica to Trinidad – A Potential West Indies Re-attribution – K. V. Eckardt December 11, 2019
A New sub-type for Elizabeth I 1572 Ermine Initial Mark Threepences – D. I. Greenhalgh. December 9, 2019
A New Die for Elizabeth I 1574 Acorn Initial Mark Threepence’s – D. I. Greenhalgh November 20, 2019
COIN PEDIGREES REVISITED: THE OXFORD CROWN – HUGH PAGAN November 13, 2019
A Rare Rune Combination on R8 Sceatta by Chris Timms. November 8, 2019
Further Notes on a False Plantation Token – Adrian Lansen, Koen Helling and Gary Oddie November 7, 2019
A Modern Concoction, a Numismatic Forgery or a Contemporary Private Issue: An Examination of a Cut and Countermarked Coin – Ken Eckardt November 5, 2019
Unusual Iconography on three R8 Sceatta – C Timms October 26, 2019
A Group of Dies for Fantasy Tokens – Gary Oddie October 20, 2019
Letters of John Lindsay of Cork Regarding the Scottish Coinage – David Rampling October 15, 2019
The First Issue Shilling of Nicholas Briot’s Hammered Coinage of 1638-39 – Bob Thomas October 2, 2019
JONATHAN RASHLEIGH, 1820-1905 – Hugh Pagan October 1, 2019
A London Street-name on a late Anglo-Saxon Penny – Richard Ambrose and Rory Naismith September 26, 2019
A quarter-noble assigned to the Trefoil Issue of Henry VI re-examined – David Guest September 16, 2019
A Third Obverse Die for Dovey Furnace Threepences – – D. I. Greenhalgh September 13, 2019
A Rare “Cut Half” Rescued from a Leicestershire Field: Henry III, Class 1a – Continental Imitation – Robert Page August 14, 2019
A Small Parcel of Coins from the Oulton, Staffordshire Hoard of 1795 (CCH 266) – An Australian Connection – Steve Green August 7, 2019
Ceolbald of Northumbria: a new look at an old moneyer – Arthur Gran August 6, 2019

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