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This is a list of British postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail postal service of the United Kingdom, normally referred to in philatelic circles as Great Britain. This list should be consistent with printed publications, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and cite sources of any deviation (e.g., magazine issue listing newly found variations).
Up to the 1950s, British commemorative stamps were few and far between; most of the stamps were what are officially called "definitives", [20] in which the portrait of the reigning monarch was the dominant element. Even after commemorative stamps began to appear more often during the 1950s and early 1960s, the monarch's effigy was prominent ...
British Paintings Four 25 November 1968 Christmas Three 1969 15 January 1969 British Ships Six (5d, 3 × 9d se-tenant, 2 × 1s se-tenant) David Gentleman [4] 3 March 1969 First flight of Concorde: Three (4d, 9d, 1s 6d) Michael Goaman [12] & David Gentleman [4] 2 April 1969 Anniversaries Five 28 May 1969 British Architecture, Cathedrals Six 1 ...
Although the 2000 edition of the Coincraft catalogue of British coins says the wartime pause was due to a surplus of pennies, [28] numismatist Kerry Rodgers, in his 2016 article on the currency emergency in Fiji during the Second World War, cited a colonial legislative record to the effect that it was to conserve copper for munitions. [30]
2000: 150th anniversary of the Public Libraries Act 1850; 2003: 100th anniversary of the Women's Social and Political Union (the Suffragettes) 2004: 50th anniversary of the first four-minute mile by Roger Bannister; 2005: 250th anniversary of the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language
Post-decimalisation British coins. Name Value Notes Half penny 1 / 2 p Sometimes written "ha'penny" (pronounced / ˈ h eɪ p n i / HAYP-nee), but normally called a "half-pee"; demonetised and withdrawn from circulation in December 1984. One penny: 1p Two pence: 2p Five pence: 5p A direct replacement for the shilling.
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The post-1973 yellow rear number plate of a vehicle registered in Peterborough (ER) between 1999 and 2000 (V), an example of the 1983-2001 prefix system. This Charles Wright typeface was the most common in the UK prior to the "prescribed font" for number plates purchased from Sep 2001.