Author: C. E. Challis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521240260
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
This major study traces the development of English minting from the seventh-century to the twentieth-century.
Records of the Royal Mint
Author: Great Britain. Royal Mint
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A New History of the Royal Mint
Author: C. E. Challis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521240260
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
This major study traces the development of English minting from the seventh-century to the twentieth-century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521240260
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
This major study traces the development of English minting from the seventh-century to the twentieth-century.
When Britain Went Decimal
Author: Mark Stocker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912667567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The United Kingdom was the last major nation-state in the world to adopt decimal currency, 50 years ago in 1971. Why was it so slow to do so? What changed politicians' and peoples' minds about it in the 1960s? Were Britain's plans to join the EEC influential? What was the impact of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand going decimal several years earlier? Or did it simply happen because of common sense, with a decimal system so much easier to learn and use than pounds, shillings and pence?The route to find the right designs was a complex one, with interfering politicians, struggling artists, and at one stage an angry Duke of Edinburgh! It took over five years to get there, and then there was the seven-sided 50 pence - a design classic we would say today, but what did the media and public think of it when it was launched in 1969?When Britain Went Decimal takes readers through the changeover leading to D-Day (decimalisation day), and beyond: how smooth and successful was the process? Did newspapers secretly hope it would fail? While decimalisation might have seemed right at the time, did it lead to inflation, as many people believe today?Entertainingly written and beautifully illustrated, this first book on decimalisation since 1973 attempts to answer all these questions and more, looking as much at the design - indeed the 'art' behind the new coinage - as at social, economic and political history.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912667567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The United Kingdom was the last major nation-state in the world to adopt decimal currency, 50 years ago in 1971. Why was it so slow to do so? What changed politicians' and peoples' minds about it in the 1960s? Were Britain's plans to join the EEC influential? What was the impact of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand going decimal several years earlier? Or did it simply happen because of common sense, with a decimal system so much easier to learn and use than pounds, shillings and pence?The route to find the right designs was a complex one, with interfering politicians, struggling artists, and at one stage an angry Duke of Edinburgh! It took over five years to get there, and then there was the seven-sided 50 pence - a design classic we would say today, but what did the media and public think of it when it was launched in 1969?When Britain Went Decimal takes readers through the changeover leading to D-Day (decimalisation day), and beyond: how smooth and successful was the process? Did newspapers secretly hope it would fail? While decimalisation might have seemed right at the time, did it lead to inflation, as many people believe today?Entertainingly written and beautifully illustrated, this first book on decimalisation since 1973 attempts to answer all these questions and more, looking as much at the design - indeed the 'art' behind the new coinage - as at social, economic and political history.
The Royal Mint: Its Working, Conduct, and Operations, Fully and Practically Explained; with Suggestions for Its Better Scientific and Official Management ... Illustrated, Etc
Author: George Frederick ANSELL
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Royal Mint
Author: Great Britain. Royal Mint
Publisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Annual Report of the Deputy Master and Comptroller - Royal Mint
Author: Great Britain. Royal Mint
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Royal Mint
Author: George Frederick Ansell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Royal Mint
Annual Report of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint
Author: Great Britain. Royal Mint
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Catalogue of the Coins, Tokens, Medals, Dies, and Seals in the Museum of the Royal Mint
Author: Great Britain. Royal Mint
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description