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An Unpublished Waterford Penny Type of Edward IV – Oisín Mac Conamhna April 30, 2024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
A Die Study of Victorian Shillings Dated 1865. Part 1 – Validating the Statistical Methods – Gary Oddie April 23, 2023
Have Dies – Will Travel, Paul Withers April 22, 2023
A Die Study of James I Shillings – Second Issue, mm Tun – Gary Oddie April 22, 2023
The Winchester Cabinet – Lucy Moore April 21, 2023
A Second Canterbury Gold Shilling of Eadbald of Kent – A new and unique find that augments the corpus of rare coins of this monarch – Tony Abramson. April 20, 2023
A False Greyhound Countermark Revisited – Gary Oddie April 20, 2023
A Contemporary Counterfeit of an Edward the Confessor Pyramids Penny of Wulfgar of London – Gary Oddie April 18, 2023
Aodh Mór Nach Glacadh Airgead, d. 1407: a strictly amonetary medieval chieftain of West Connacht – Oisín Mac Conamhna April 11, 2023
Edward I class 1a pennies with a forked crown – Denis Martin April 7, 2023
An Enigmatic Commonwealth Farthing – Tracing Edward Rowland’s Patterns of 1652 – Gary Oddie April 7, 2023
A Die Study of James I Shillings – Second Issue, mm Book – Gary Oddie April 6, 2023
William Clowes and the Tokens For The King’s Evil – Gary Oddie April 5, 2023
A Die Study of James I Shillings – Second Issue, mm Plain Cross – Gary Oddie April 4, 2023
A Die Study of James I Shillings – Third Issue, mm Spur Rowell – Gary Oddie April 3, 2023
An Early Lead Weight for Twelve Pence? – Gary Oddie April 2, 2023
Henry VIII: A Possible Candidate for Archbishop Warham’s Mark? – Lee Stone March 29, 2023
The Heworth 1812 Hoard: A Cold Case Reconsidered – Hugh Pagan March 22, 2023
Edward IV Durham halfpennies: Some new examples? – Lee Stone March 21, 2023
Another UK Merchant Countermark Find – Eric C. Hodge March 7, 2023
An Example of a Henry VI Annulet Issue York Penny from the Ecclesiastical Mint? – Lee Stone February 28, 2023
A Counterfeit 1928 Australian Shilling – Gary Oddie February 27, 2023
A Die Study of Charles I Shillings – mm Heart – Gary Oddie February 26, 2023
Determining the Density of a Coin using Archimedes’ Principle – Gary Oddie February 25, 2023
An Unusual Counterfeit Charles I 1b2 Shilling, mm Heart – Gary Oddie February 24, 2023
A Token of Appreciation for a Jacobean Hoard – Gary Oddie February 23, 2023
A Mould for a 17th Century Lead Token – The Rose at Stony Lane, Southwark – Gary Oddie February 22, 2023
Vicar’s Jubilee, Churchstoke, 1896 – Gary Oddie & Nigel Lutt February 21, 2023
A Punch for the Octagonal Countermark of 1804 – Gary Oddie February 20, 2023
A Unique Farthing Token from the Thames – Simon Maslin February 20, 2023
Edward IV: A Possible Halfpenny for the Coventry Mint – Lee Stone February 14, 2023
Insertions in a copy of Robertson’s ‘A Handbook to the Coinage of Scotland’ – David Rampling February 12, 2023
Insights into Henry VI Rosette Mascle Pence – Dave Greenhalgh February 7, 2023
Cark Cotton Works, 4 Shillings 6 Pence, Manville 101 – A New Variety – K. V. Eckardt February 3, 2023
Early Anglo-Saxon Coins – Keeping the Corpus Current – Tony Abramson January 27, 2023
The Peckham gold shilling: A new, unique addition to the corpus of early Anglo-Saxon gold shillings – Tony Abramson January 26, 2023
An Unusual Late Edward IV London Penny – M.J. Wade January 26, 2023
Elizabeth I, 1562 Threepence, New Obverse Die – Adrian Curry January 25, 2023
A Murder at The Adelphi – William Terriss R.I.P. – Gary Oddie January 18, 2023
A New Bust Variety for 1676 Charles II Shillings – Gary Oddie January 18, 2023
Robert Welborne, “Unworthy Servant of Christ”, and his Coin Collection – Hugh Pagan January 12, 2023
Spink’s Numismatic Circular – A Personal Story – Gary Oddie January 5, 2023
An Unusual Hoard of 17thC Tokens and Coins – Gary Oddie January 5, 2023
Edward III, Durham, class 15d pennies. BNJ 2018 article – A brief update – Denis Martin December 23, 2022
A New Mintmark for the Henry VIII Canterbury Penny? – Lee Stone December 23, 2022
Henry III Long Class Pennies – A Very Rare Class 5d1/5c3 Mule – The Missing Link? – Ian M Heavisides. December 20, 2022
The Last Galley Halfpenny – Joshua Cattermole December 11, 2022
Early letter forms in the Edward III Florin coinage 1344-51 (Part 2) – Some new developments – Denis Martin December 3, 2022
Early letter forms in the Edward III coinage 1344-1351 – Denis Martin November 30, 2022
In The Groove – Security Edges and Contemporary Counterfeiting in British West Africa and Nigeria – Gary Oddie November 27, 2022
Further Examples of an Unusual Lettering Variant, Edward I – Rob Page November 23, 2022
“MCHBI” – A BNS Online Map Application for Medieval Coin Hoards in Britain and Ireland – Rob Page November 22, 2022
The Fourth variety of Fleur-de-lis groats of James II of Scotland – David Rampling November 11, 2022
F.R. Reynolds of Yarmouth: Silver Token and Promissory Note Issuer, 1811 – Gary Oddie November 8, 2022
Bedford Numismatic Society Open Day: 23/10/2022 – Gary Oddie November 7, 2022
Women in British Numismatics – Gary Oddie November 6, 2022
A Day at The Fitzwilliam Museum – Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest – Gary Oddie November 5, 2022
An Unrecorded George II Shilling Overdate – 1747/6 – Gary Oddie November 4, 2022
An Unusual Lettering Variant, Edward I, Lincoln – Rob Page October 26, 2022
The First English Coin Collection? – Dave Greenhalgh October 26, 2022
The “Tercentenary” of the South Sea Company “SSC” silver coins approaches. Where the silver came from and how it got here – Graham Birch October 19, 2022

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