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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", [21] 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 ...
The CC41 symbol, also known as the Utility mark, was an identifying mark of products produced and sold as part of the British Government's Second World War Utility Clothing Scheme. The CC41 Utility mark indicated that the item met the standards of the Government's Utility regulations, and could be sold as a product of the Utility Scheme. [ 1 ]
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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]
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When you think of coins that are worth more than a pretty penny, you likely think of coins that bear the faces of ancient emperors, or coins that commemorate major historical events. The 1950s ...