Fifty years ago, the UK converted to a decimal currency, and one and two new pence coins became the modern way to pay. Now, there is another debate, over the need to keep notes and coins when we ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This coin features a portrait of Paul ...
The sparkling new coins included the halfpenny on the right "Every man who looks at his ten fingers saw an argument of its use, and an evidence of its practicability." The above statement was made by ...
Monday marks 50 years since Britain said goodbye to centuries of monetary tradition as shillings, florins and crowns were replaced by the decimal currency system. On February 14, 1971, there were 12 ...
Readers of a certain age will remember the florin, or flóirín as it was in Irish. Those of an uncertain age will even recall when it was Ireland’s two-shilling coin, complete with the leaping salmon ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This coin features a portrait of Paul ...
"Every man who looks at his ten fingers saw an argument of its use, and an evidence of its practicability." The above statement was made by Sir John Bowring MP to the House of Commons in 1847, but ...
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