Book Description
This major study traces the development of English minting from the seventh-century to the twentieth-century.
Author : C. E. Challis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 40,70 MB
Release : 1992-11-19
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780521240260
This major study traces the development of English minting from the seventh-century to the twentieth-century.
Author : Great Britain. Royal Mint
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Coinage
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Author : George A. Selgin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Coinage
ISBN : 0472116312
Private Enterprise and the Foundation of Modern Coinage
Author : Mark Stocker
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 2021-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781912667567
The United Kingdom was the last major nation-state in the world to adopt decimal currency, 50 years ago in 1971. Why was it so slow to do so? What changed politicians' and peoples' minds about it in the 1960s? Were Britain's plans to join the EEC influential? What was the impact of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand going decimal several years earlier? Or did it simply happen because of common sense, with a decimal system so much easier to learn and use than pounds, shillings and pence?The route to find the right designs was a complex one, with interfering politicians, struggling artists, and at one stage an angry Duke of Edinburgh! It took over five years to get there, and then there was the seven-sided 50 pence - a design classic we would say today, but what did the media and public think of it when it was launched in 1969?When Britain Went Decimal takes readers through the changeover leading to D-Day (decimalisation day), and beyond: how smooth and successful was the process? Did newspapers secretly hope it would fail? While decimalisation might have seemed right at the time, did it lead to inflation, as many people believe today?Entertainingly written and beautifully illustrated, this first book on decimalisation since 1973 attempts to answer all these questions and more, looking as much at the design - indeed the 'art' behind the new coinage - as at social, economic and political history.
Author : Samuel Langley-Swain
Publisher : Tooth Fairy Adventures
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 2020-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781913339166
Author : George Frederick Ansell
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Coinage
ISBN :
Author : George Frederick ANSELL
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 1870
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Great Britain. Royal Mint
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Coinage
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Author : G. P. Dyer
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Coinage
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Author : Thomas Levenson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0571265758
Already famous throughout Europe for his theories of planetary motion and gravity, Isaac Newton decided to take on the job of running the Royal Mint. And there, Newton became drawn into a battle with William Chaloner, the most skilful of counterfeiters, a man who not only got away with faking His Majesty's coins (a crime that the law equated with treason), but was trying to take over the Mint itself. But Chaloner had no idea who he was taking on. Newton pursued his enemy with the cold, implacable logic that he brought to his scientific research. Set against the backdrop of early eighteenth-century London with its sewers running down the middle of the streets, its fetid rivers, its packed houses, smoke and fog, its industries and its great port, this dark tale of obsession and revenge transforms our image of Britain's greatest scientist.