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Cardon, Nathan. "The South's 'New Negroes' and African American Visions of Progress at the Atlanta and Nashville International Expositions, 1895-1897" Journal of Southern History (2014). Cardon, Nathan. A Dream of the Future: Race, Empire, and Modernity at the Atlanta and Nashville World's Fairs (Oxford University Press, 2018).
The vast majority of the coins from the United Kingdom were melted down by the Royal Mint after the King's abdication. Many pattern issues are retained by the Royal Mint Museum, with other surviving coins purchased by private collectors. [2] In 2020, an Edward VIII sovereign sold at auction for £1 million, the most for a British coin. [3]
A coin show is also an event that allows the public to sell coins to dealers. [3] A show offers a coin collector the opportunity to meet multiple dealers and see a variety of coins, books, paper money and tokens. [4] A coin show provides dealers and collectors a chance to see a great variety of coins to fill out coin sets. [5]
Andrew Michael Burnett, CBE, FSA, FBA (born 23 May 1952) is a British numismatist and museum curator, who specialises in Roman coins. He was Deputy Director of the British Museum from 2003 to 2013, and Keeper of its Department of Coins and Medals from 1992 to 2003. [1] [2] He was president of the Royal Numismatic Society from 2013 to 2018. [3]
This issue is also known as the Rosa Americana (Latin for American Rose) coinage. These coins depict a laureated portrait of King George I of Great Britain facing right on the obverse. The Halfpenny and 1 Penny depict a rose right in the centre of the reverse, whereas the Twopence depicts a crowned rose on the reverse.
English Copper, Tin and Bronze Coins in the British Museum 1558–1958. London: Trustees of the British Museum. OCLC 906173180. Robinson, Brian (1992). Silver Pennies & Linen Towels: The Story of the Royal Maundy. London: Spink & Sons Ltd. ISBN 978-0-907605-35-5. Seaby, Peter (1985). The Story of British Coinage.
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A scattering of single-finds from the same period shows that the flow of coinage into 5th- and 6th-century Britain never dried up totally, and it appears that there was also some use of Byzantine coinage in the 6th century: gold and especially bronze coins have been found in substantial numbers, even in the western part of Britain, which is ...