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Archbishop Wigmund, of York, Northumbria ca. 854AD.

I have one of the wee critters magneted to my ice box. Usually when these are found now they are pretty rusty, the light zinc plating wore off easily exposing the corrosive steel. I have actually had a pile of these once and spent all the rusted out ones.

At one time I endeavoured to collect a Sovereign from every country that minted one. I know I had Australia, South Africa, Britain of course, but I never got India or Canada. One of my family members has an 1877 Sovereign, which legend has it that it came with the family from Cornwall in 1880. Curiously it was minted in Australia and somehow made it to Britain to be shipped yet again across the Atlantic. The only coin I have that came down from the Cornwall ancestors is an 1862 1/2d.

I have a couple of 1978 Krugerrands that I have owned since I was a kid, only recently in the past few months in fact, are they worth more than I paid for them.

Which is to say, think before thou writeth, it canna be undone. Like flammers that post and get all stirred up an change the post later.

17th Century English Tokens 'bout the only page I have up. Just too lazy to do the others.

This coin is a Scottish Merk from 1668, a Merk was 13 shillings and 6 pence Scots, the rough equivalent of a then contemporary English Shilling. This coin would have circulated in Scotland of course, but occasionally in Northern England also. Many of these coins were withdrawn from circulation in the period of 1707-1709 and melted and reminted as British coins after the Union of 1707. In this condition, the coin is worth betwixt £75-£100.

Some provincial banks issued £1 notes, the Bank of England did not get into the act of issuing £1 notes until 1817-1818 or so during the tenure of Henry Hase. During the early part of the 19th century anything that could pass as money basically did, including even foreign coins, coinage was very scarce - the reign of George III saw very light issues of coinage until 1797, and then the early 19th century.

Nice to know the newlyweds can afford to fill the Cadillac with petrol

Yep, noticed that too.

Yep, I think I can make out something of Ferdinand, he would have been the king very early in the 19th century, so this is a Maravedi from the era of 1810-1820 or so.