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{ John with Kaspa 🙂 } On Saturday 2nd April, John White, co-founder of TGBCH passed away at the Weldmar hospice in Weymouth. He was a beautiful person and will be very sadly missed.
Musings
Loose Changes
{ Supergran says, ‘Wakey, wakey! Our planet is dying.’ – image reblogged from comedy.co.uk } Most of us are now fully aware of the impact modern life is having on the environment. And over the last decade or so we have seen some pretty big companies making some pretty big changes to reduce their …
Jubilee 50p – THE Major Earth Event
{ One is understandably very excited about the new Jubbly 50p – image reblogged from www.goodhousekeeping.com } 2022 is an incredibly big and exciting year for both the royals and for royalists alike. Unfortunately I am neither of these so it is pretty much the same as 2021. It is a bigger number is …
‘Oh what a tangled web we weave… (…When first we practice to deceive’)
The Royal Mint. It sounds so swish, professional and legitimate doesn’t it? Three short words that inspire feelings which are historic, formal and quintessentially British. Of course, The Royal Mint are well aware of the subliminals attached to their oh-so-lofty moniker – that is precisely why they marketed their ‘quintessentially British’ A-Z 10p’s in the …
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When Presentation Packs a Problem
[ image by Svetta ] Royal Mint presentation packs. They look so nice, don’t they? For years they have all been issued in the same regimental format (which is great for those of us with OCD) and their artwork is often ever nicer than the coins they house. But are presentation packs the best thing …
A Penny for Your Thoughts
[ The Cost of Continuity – image by Mik ] When it comes to collecting coins, all of us are different. Some will only collect fifty pences for example, while other people will insist on having coins from all denominations. And then there is the pickle of condition – will you collect circulated, BUNC …
Plane Jane
[ image reblogged from calgaryherald.com ] In 2017, no new £2 coins went into general circulation. This was the year that saw the release of Jane Austen and Aviation.
The Curse of Frankenstein?
[image reblogged from bbc.co.uk] When The Royal Mint released the Frankenstein £2 coin in 2018, they inadvertently overlooked a potential new target audience without even realising it. Yup, the Goth quarter. So it is quite possible that the Mint could have sold even more units than they actually did.
‘To Sift or Not to Sift…..’
[Bill Rattlelance yesterday – image reblogged from lifesitenews.com] We are all guilty of it, aren’t we? Whenever we have the opportunity we’ll get a bag or two of coins from the bank to see what treasures are in there…… For some of us this is something we’ll do once a week or so, while …
Doing it to Death
[image reblogged from spinfold.com] So….. in a weeks’ time the new Wallace and Gromit fifty pence is going to be released. And the word on the street is that the Brexit coin will be coming out at around the same time too. Things are hotting up it would seem over at The Mint.
