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The £2.8bn (US$4.5bn) ($8.4 billion today) price tag for FORE [4] and the £1.3n spent on Reltec a month earlier took a heavy toll on Marconi following the burst of the bubble in 2000/2001. In July 2001 Marconi plc suffered a 54% drop in its share price following suspension of trading of its shares, a profits warning and redundancies.
The British two pound coin (£2) is a denomination of sterling coinage. Its obverse has featured the profile of Queen Elizabeth II since the coin’s release. Three different portraits of the Queen have been used, with the current design by Jody Clark being introduced in 2015.
2001: 100th anniversary of the first successful trans-Atlantic wireless transmission 2002 : XVII Commonwealth Games in Manchester (4 coins) - England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland 2003 : 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA
The £2.8bn price for FORE Systems and the £1.3n spent on RELTEC took a heavy toll on Marconi following the bursting of the bubble in 2000/2001. In the first half of 2001, some of Marconi's major competitors such as Lucent Technologies and Alcatel had issued profit warnings, citing a large drop in orders from large telecoms groups.
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An 836-pound “cursed” emerald worth nearly $1 billion will be returned to Brazil after 15 years under lock and key in Los Angeles. The 180,000-carat Bahia Emerald was smuggled out of the South ...
In 2001, the RCM achieved innovation with the 2001 Marconi $5 silver coin. It was the first RCM coin to include a direct lasered finish. [ 2 ] One of the technological breakthroughs for the RCM involved the 2006 Canadian Achievement series silver coin featuring Colonel Chris Hadfield.
The 836-pound emerald was caught in the middle of an international dispute (AP) A massive, 836lb emerald thought to be worth as much as $1bn, and rumored to be cursed, will return to its home soil ...