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The designs for the 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p coins depict sections of the Royal Shield that form the whole shield when placed together. The shield in its entirety was featured on the now-obsolete round £1 coin. The 50p coin depicts the lowest point of the Shield, with the words FIFTY PENCE below the point of the shield. The coin's obverse ...
Black Wednesday, or the 1992 sterling crisis, was a financial crisis that occurred on 16 September 1992 when the UK Government was forced to withdraw sterling from the (first) European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM I), following a failed attempt to keep its exchange rate above the lower limit required for ERM participation.
1992: UK's Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers and the completion of the European single market; 1994: 50th anniversary of D-Day; 1998: 25th anniversary of the UK's membership in the European Union; 1998: 50th anniversary of the NHS; 2000: 150th anniversary of the Public Libraries Act 1850
Kew Gardens 50p. Single Market 50p. Peter Rabbit 50p. 1936 King George V Dot Cent. 1965 Queen Elizabeth II Large Beads 5 Cent. 1948 King George VI Dollar. Is Coin Roll Hunting Worth It?
In the 1990s, the Royal Mint reduced the sizes of the 5p, 10p, and 50p coins. As a consequence, the oldest 5p coins in circulation date from 1990, the oldest 10p coins from 1992 and the oldest 50p coins come from 1997. Since 1997, many special commemorative designs of 50p have been issued. Some of these are found fairly frequently in ...
Single/ Bi-metallic Metal Shape Diameter Minted in Year Obverse Reverse ₹5. Five Rupees Singlemetallic Copper-Nickel: Circular 23 mm 1992-2004 ₹2. Two Rupees Hendecagonal: 26 mm 1992-2004 ₹1. One Rupee Stainless steel: Circular 25 mm 1992-2004 50p. Fifty paise 22 mm 1988-2007 25p. Twenty-five paise 19 mm 1988-2002 10p. Ten paise 16 mm ...
The Single European Act (SEA) was the first major revision of the 1957 Treaty of Rome. The Act set the European Community an objective of establishing a single market by 31 December 1992, and a forerunner of the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) it helped codify European Political Co-operation.
Postage stamps were first used in Great Britain on 6 May 1840, with the introduction of the world's first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black.Up until 1924, all British stamps depicted only the portrait of the reigning monarch, with the exception of the 'High Value' stamps, the so-called "Sea Horses" design issued in 1913, which were twice the size of normal stamps with added pictorial design.