Coin News Magazine

Here we are, at COINEX 2024! Our stand is at the bottom of the stairs and you can’t fail to spot our 3 BRAND NEW publications - the COIN YEARBOOK 2025, the MEDAL YEARBOOK 2025, and the new STANDARD CATALOGUE TO THE GOLD SOVEREIGN SERIES! 🥳

Carol is happy because she has BNTA cupcakes to keep her going!

Come over and say “hello” today or tomorrow to the Token Publishing team. 😃

This weekend (Friday 27 and Saturday 28 September), Lou, Phil and Carol will be representing COIN NEWS and Token Publishing at COINEX.

We are hoping to have our brand-new COIN YEARBOOK 2025 with us.
The fair is in its usual location of The Ballroom, The Biltmore Hotel, London Mayfair, Grosvenor Square, London W1K 2HP.

Admission for the Friday is £40, with doors open 12.30-5.30 and last admission at 5pm. On Saturday, doors are open 10.00 - 3.00 (last entry 14.30) with admission at £5. Admission should be paid in cash at the reception desk and VIP tickets for Friday (£40) can be pre-orderded via email: [email protected].

Please pop over and say "Hello" to the Token Team! Don't forget to bring your COINEX gift voucher (see COIN NEWS September 2024, p.72) for £2 off all purchases up to £20 or £5 off all purchases of £20 or more!

*NEW*
Saturday 5th October
Specialist Paper Money Fair
Novotel London West
See below for more details

Here we are everyone - the cover of COIN NEWS October 2024!

We are jam-packed from cover to cover this month with some fascinating articles: Coventina’s Well and its Story (Ted Fletcher), Fake and Replica Pennies Duping Collectors (Richard Sessions), Laying the Foundations for Change—Part I (Elizabeth Norfolk), The Hong Kong Coinage of 1941—Part I (Howard Hodgson), British Interests in the Indian Ocean—Part I: Ceylon (Peter R. Thompson), Some Notes from Birnbeck Pier (Gary Oddie), 1919—A Revolting Year (Max Everest-Phillips), our COINEX FAIR PREVIEW. . . and a voucher to spend too, Admiral Yi Sun-sin and his incomparable Iron-clads (Dr K. A. Rodgers), The collection of a lifetime (Mark Lancashire), and our regular features such as View of the Bay, Back to Basics, Around the World, Banknote New Issues, News and Views.... and so much more.

COIN NEWS October 2024 will be available in Newsagents from September 25; subscribers will receive their copy before this date. To order your copy today, call 01404 46972, visit https://www.tokenpublishing.com/subscribe/coin or email [email protected] 🤩

We saw Colin at the OMRS and he is rightly deserving of his silver medal 🤩

Very pleased to have been awarded a silver medal for my display.

We have completely SOLD OUT of the hugely popular BANKNOTE YEARBOOK 11th Edition . . . but don't panic if you didn't get your copy - we will soon be working on the 12th Edition!

Keep checking our page and also our website (www.tokenpublishing.com) for updates

MEDAL YEARBOOK 2025!
Here it is - the brand new MEDAL YEARBOOK 2025 which you can pre-order now on 01404 46972 or by following the links below:

STANDARD MEDAL YEARBOOK 2025 at £19.95 https://www.tokenpublishing.com/shop/product/8140/16

DELUXE MEDAL YEARBOOK 2025 at £35
https://www.tokenpublishing.com/shop/product/8141/16

The BRAND NEW 2025 version of the acclaimed MEDAL YEARBOOK will be with us soon and is now available to order! This year we have once again produced two very different versions with the standard softback edition covering only non-commercial British Medals, this allows us to keep the price below £20 again and as it's 360 pages (against the hardback's 696) it cuts down on postage costs too.

The deluxe hardback version will have everything that's in the softback PLUS the Medals of the Irish Republic, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. It will also feature the unofficial medals that are popping up in groups more and more as well as the professional directories and the cumulative index to Medal News magazine - this will also be available as a digital download from our website.

Both versions of this year's book will, of course, feature all the new medals issued in the name of His Majesty King Charles III with a complete look at which obverses are being used on which medals.

COIN YEARBOOK 2025!
Here we have the front cover of our brand new COIN YEARBOOK 2025 which you can pre-order now on 01404 46972, or by following the link below, for only £11.95: https://www.tokenpublishing.com/shop/product/8139/16

The brand new 2025 COIN YEARBOOK will be available at COINEX on September 27 (all being well). Pre-order yours today and get it POST FREE until the end of September (UK addresses only - if you're overseas and would like a copy please contact us on [email protected] or call +44 1404 46972).

The COIN YEARBOOK is the ever-popular price guide to English, Scottish, Irish and Isle of Man Coins. In a handy, easy to use A5 format and priced at just £11.95, the YEARBOOK is the perfect guide for newcomers and seasoned numismatists alike. For the past five years we have completely sold out of the YEARBOOK by June - with the new version always eagerly awaited. Secure your copy POST FREE today!

This weekend (Sunday, September 8 ), Phil will be representing the COIN NEWS and Token Publishing team at the Midland Coin Fair which is held at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham (Bickenhill, Birmingham, B92 0EJ).
Doors are open between 9.30-3.30 and entry is £3 per person (with children entering for free).
Please pop over and say "Hello", take a look at our titles and even pre-order our new COIN YEARBOOK!

IT'S HERE!
The Token team are very busy this morning sending out all the pre-orders of THE STANDARD CATALOGUE TO THE GOLD SOVEREIGN SERIES 🥳

If you pre-ordered, your copy should be arriving soon!
If you didn't pre-order but would like to add this unmissable catalogue to your collection, visit https://www.tokenpublishing.com/shop/product/8138 today or call us on 01404 46972.

Phil will be here (no Lou or Carol this time) representing Coin News and Medal News magazine on behalf of Token Publishing Ltd so please come over to say “hello” 🤩

This Sunday 8th September is the BIG BIRMINGHAM COIN FAIR. Nearly twice as many dealers as our regular monthly fairs, so if you're a first time visitor this is the one to come along to! Doors open 9.30am, £3 per person, parking and refreshments on site!
www.coinfairs.co.uk for more details.

A Choice of Hoards

On September 10, members and guests of the Crewe society look forward to visiting the Grosvenor Museum in Chester. Liz Mongomery from the museum has kindly offered to show us highlights from a number of remarkable collections and hoards. These include the Willoughby Gardner collection of Saxon silver pennies from the Chester Mint, the Heronbridge hoard of silver denarii, the Dutton hoard of silver siliquae, and the Castle Esplanade hoard of Viking silver coins and bullion. We’ll also be able to see the medieval Huntington hoard, the Shocklach hoard of Tudor coins, including the Angel illustrated here, and the Winsford hoard of Civil War silver.
After the museum visit, our Autumn programme continues with the popular coin fair in October. In November Steve Bentley will describe the history of the Crystal Palace using medallions. Our December meeting will be the 600th in the society’s history and we will be celebrating with a ‘Good Old Days’ themed meeting.

The Crewe society meets on the second Tuesday of most months and visitors are always very welcome. Please contact the Secretary Stuart Hallworth on 07828 602611 for details.

Steve Bentley – Chairman, Crewe and District Coin and Medal Society

IT’S HERE!
Our 1st pre-publication sample of the new Standard Catalogue to the Gold Sovereign Series! It looks fantastic (and has the lovely new-book smell, too)!

The updated price guide goes to press this week. When that’s printed, we’ll put the two together and send out all pre-orders. 🤩

There’s still chance to get yours post-free. Just visit www.tokenpublishing.com and use code SOVFREE at the checkout for UK free postage.
** overseas postage will be reduced by £7.50 for pre-orders.

We are preparing to welcome you all again to the Novotel London West, for the next London Coin Fair on Saturday 7th September! Doors open at 10am and we have over 70 dealers joining us. Don't miss out! www.coinfairs.co.uk for more info.

This is not good - we need to keep cash in use!

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Tesco ditches payment using notes and coins from from 40 outlets

COMPETITION TIME!

Make sure you get hold of a copy of the September 2024 issue of COIN NEWS magazine for your chance to win an actual GOLD SOVEREIGN – quite the prize with gold prices what they are today!

You can subscribe today by visiting www.tokenpublishing.com or buy your copy from your local newsagent (on sale Wednesday, August 28).

And, as a special Facebook-only competition, we are giving all you lovely people the chance to win a copy of our BRAND NEW "Standard Catalogue to the Gold Sovereign Series". Just like this post and follow us before October 31, 2024, and you will automatically be entered into the draw. We’ll DM the lucky winner after that date!

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As well as our usual features such as News & Views, Auction Highlights, Numismarkets, View of the Bay, Around the World, Back to Basics, Letter from America and Banknote New Issues, the September issue of COIN NEWS has . . .

Coventina's Well and its Story (Ted Fletcher),
Fake and Replica Pennies are Duping Collectors (Richard Sessions),
Laying the foundations for change: Part 1 (Lisa Norfolk),
British Interests in the Indian Ocean: Part 1 (Peter R. Thompson),
Some notes from Birnbeck Pier (Gary Oddie),
1919: A Revolting Year (Max Everest-Phillips),
Admiral Yi Sun-sin and his incomparable Iron-Clads (Dr K. A. Rodgers),
My Collection and Me—The Colletion of a Lifetime (Mark Lancashire), AND
our COINEX feature with a voucher to spend!

If you are not a subscriber, please visit https://www.tokenpublishing.com/subscribe/coin to subscribe today or call 01404 46972 to speak to one of our friendly team. Alternatively, COIN NEWS September 2024 will be available in all good newsagents from August 28. 😀

Here we have it - the cover of COIN NEWS September 2024! We are only just past the first week of August but the COIN NEWS team have been working hard to get the September issue ready for you - and it's a bumper one, too with a special COINEX feature!

As well as our usual features such as News & Views, Auction Highlights, Numismarkets, View of the Bay, Around the World, Back to Basics, Letter from America and Banknote New Issues, we have. . .

Coventina's Well and its Story (Ted Fletcher),
Fake and Replica Pennies are Duping Collectors (Richard Sessions),
Laying the foundations for change: Part 1 (Lisa Norfolk),
British Interests in the Indian Ocean: Part 1 (Peter R. Thompson),
Some notes from Birnbeck Pier (Gary Oddie),
1919: A Revolting Year (Max Everest-Phillips),
Admiral Yi Sun-sin and his incomparable Iron-Clads (Dr K. A. Rodgers),
My Collection and Me—The Colletion of a Lifetime (Mark Lancashire), AND
our COINEX feature with a voucher to spend!

The magazine went off to the printer yesterday and subscribers should be receiving their copies in the next week or so; if you are not a collector, please visit https://www.tokenpublishing.com/subscribe/coin to subscribe today or call 01404 46972 to speak to one of our friendly team. Alternatively, COIN NEWS September 2024 will be available in all good newsagents from August 28. 😀

Important Medieval Hoard Melted Down!

At our June meeting, the Crewe society was treated to a fascinating presentation on the 12th-century Tealby Hoard by Alan Dawson, of the Ormskirk & West Lancashire Numismatic Society. The coins themselves are enigmatic, often badly struck and, with 30 mints and 123 known moneyers, very difficult to identify correctly. Mystery surrounds their finding in 1807, since the ploughed-up jar in which they were found was a thousand years older than the coins themselves.
More surprising however is the story of their disposal. The original finders may have kept a few of the coins for themselves but 5,731 coins of the hoard were passed by the landowner Charles Tennyson to his friend Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. Banks was also a member of the Privy Council Coin Committee, responsible, among other things, for the supply of metal for coinage. Banks arranged for around 300 coins to be sold to collectors for a few shillings each and a similar number were either kept by Banks or returned to Tennyson. However, the remaining 5,127 coins were sent to the Royal Mint in the Tower, where they were melted down! An ingot was reportedly made of the metal. Its fate is not known but it may have been used by the mint in the re-coinage of 1816. So if you own a British silver coin of that date, it’s possible that it contains a tiny amount of Tealby silver.

The Crewe society meets on the second Tuesday of most months and visitors are always very welcome. Please contact the Secretary, Stuart Hallworth, on 07828 602611 for details. The next meeting will be on September 10, when we shall have a private visit to the Grosvenor Museum in Chester and the opportunity to see several hoards dating from Roman to Civil War times.

Steve Bentley – Chairman, Crewe and District Coin and Medal Society

Lou and Phil were so busy at the York Coin Fair that there were no spare moments to photograph the day, but they did get some time to themselves in the evening to visit beautiful York Minster and see it within its impressive historic setting.

January’s York fair dates - we will be here, will you? 😊

COIN NEWS August has arrived at the office (and a couple of boxes made their way to York with Lou and Phil 😆) so subscribers should be receiving their copies soon. If you’re not a subscriber, you can order on 01404 46972 or pick one up if you’re coming to the York fair tomorrow and/or Saturday. 😁

Tomorrow (July 18), Lou and Phil will be making the 6-hour journey to York for the York Stamp and Coin Fair which takes place on Friday, July 19 (10am-5pm) and Saturday, July 20 (10am-4pm) at The Grandstand, York Racecourse, York, YO23 1EX. Admission and car parking are both free.
With 70+ stamp and postal history dealers and 50+ coin, banknote and medal dealers, this is an event not to be missed!

Visit https://stampshows.net/york-stamp-coin-fair/ for more details.