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Coin Pre-decimalisation value Post-decimalisation value [1] Dates of use Notes Mite 1 / 24 d £0.0001736 15th century The Flemish groat approximately matched the English penny c 1420-1480 and was divided into 24 mites.
They were line engraved and featured a bust of Queen Victoria in profile with '½d' on either side. A plate number was engraved in the design, in the left and right side lace work. The plates were numbered from 1 to 20, but plates 2, 7, 16, 17, and 18 were not completed, plates 21 and 22 were not used and plate 9 is now scarce because it was a ...
This is a list of the highest known prices paid for philatelic items, including stamps and covers. The current record price for a single stamp is US$9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta. [1] [2] This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023.
1848 – Plates 70 and 71 were rouletted by Henry Archer; 1850 – Some Alphabet 1 plates were perforated 16 by Henry Archer; 24 February 1854 – perforations 16 introduced on all Alphabet II plates. [7] January 1855 [8] – perforation size changed from 16 to 14. 15 May 1855 [9] – watermark changed from small crown to large crown.
The British three halfpence coin was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 / 160 of one pound or 1 / 8 of one shilling. It was produced for circulation in the British colonies, mainly in Ceylon and the West Indies in each year between 1834 and 1843, and also in 1860 and 1862. Proof coins were also produced in 1870.
An imprimatur of the 1870 rose-red three halfpence stamp from Plate 3. In the collection of the British Postal Museum and Archive. [1]The Three Halfpence Red, first issued on 1 October 1870, was the first Three Halfpenny postage stamp issued in the United Kingdom.
The quarter farthing was a British coin worth 1 ⁄ 3840 of a pound, 1 ⁄ 192 of a shilling, or + 1 ⁄ 16 of a penny. The Royal Mint issued the coins in copper for exclusive use in British Ceylon in 1839, 1851, 1852, and 1853. [1] The mint also produced bronze proofs in 1868. [2]
Composite plate reconstruction of 240 used Penny Black stamps. The printing plates for the Penny Black, two pence blue and the VR official were all constructed by Perkins Bacon, the printers of the first postage stamps issued in Great Britain.