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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 ...
2009: Three years until the 2012 London Olympics, swimming [1] 2010: 350th anniversary of the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II; 2010: Two years until the 2012 London Olympic Games, athletics [2] 2011: The 90th birthday of The Duke of Edinburgh [3] 2011: Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton [4]
Someone just paid a pretty penny for two rare 1-cent coins. And by a pretty penny, we mean a grand total of nearly $870,000. A 1792 silver center cent sold for $352,500 at a Heritage auction in ...
Description Eight coins were issued in the following denominations: 2 mils, 3 mils, 5 mils, 1 cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, 10 cents, 50 cents. The mils were in aluminium, the 1 cent in bronze, and the rest in cupro-nickel. These coins were struck as: 2 mils in aluminium, 1g, 20,3mm dia., scalloped, 1972–1986 (100,000).
Buffalo nickels are nostalgic coins that were in circulation from 1913 until 1938. Once a regular discovery in everyday life, these coins are now valued antiquities from a bygone period. They were...
Fifty pence, 50p or 50P may refer to: Fifty pence (British coin), one half pound sterling; Fifty pence (Irish coin), one half of the now withdrawn Irish pound; Fifty Pence, nickname of a fictional character from M.I.High; Fifty Pence (or 50 Pence), pseudonym of Liam Don, a musician from Hemel Hempstead who has written parodies of 50 Cent songs
U.S. coins worth five cents have been around since 1794, but they were called “half dimes” during the early decades. The term “nickel” wasn’t (um) coined until 1866, though the smaller ...
Due to inflation, one nickel in 2017 was worth approximately what a penny was worth in 1974. [1] When the United States discontinued the half-cent coin in 1857, it had a 2023-equivalent buying power of about 16 cents. [1] After 1857, the new smallest coin was the one-cent, which had a 2023-equivalent buying power of 33 cents.