Metal Detecting and Coin Finds: What to Do with Your Discovery Finding a coin with a metal detector is one of those genuinely thrilling moments that keeps hobbyists going through muddy fields and grey afternoons. Whether you have just pulled a corroded disc from a ploughed field in Suffolk or uncovered a gleaming Victorian penny … Read more
Celtic Coins of Ancient Britain A World Hiding in Plain Sight There is a moment that every Celtic coin collector remembers. For many it happens in a museum – standing in front of a small glass case at the British Museum or the Ashmolean in Oxford, peering at a handful of gold staters no bigger … Read more
Roman Coins Found in Britain: A Collector’s Guide There is something genuinely extraordinary about holding a Roman coin in your hand. A small, worn disc of bronze or silver, perhaps two thousand years old, stamped with the face of an emperor who ruled over a vast empire – and yet here it is, sitting in … Read more
Queen Elizabeth II Coins: Building a Reign Collection Why a Reign Collection? There is something quietly extraordinary about holding a penny struck in 1953 — the year of the Coronation — and placing it beside one minted in 2021. Nearly seven decades separate those two small discs of metal, yet both carry the portrait of … Read more
King Charles III Coins: What Collectors Should Know There is something quietly thrilling about holding a brand-new coin and knowing you are among the first people in the country to own it. That feeling hit me properly in September 2022, when I pulled a 50p piece from my change at a petrol station on the … Read more
Sixpences, Florins and Crowns: Collecting Pre-Decimal Silver Why Pre-Decimal Silver? There is something quietly compelling about holding a Victorian florin or a George V sixpence. These are coins that passed through countless hands – paid wages, bought bread, dropped into church collection plates – before the world they inhabited vanished on 15 February 1971, the … Read more
The Old Penny: History and Collectability Introduction: Why the Old Penny Matters Few British coins occupy as prominent a place in the national consciousness as the old penny. Heavy, copper-red, and bearing the stern profile of the reigning monarch, it was the working coin of everyday Britain for well over a century. You could buy … Read more
Pre-Decimal UK Coins: A Beginner’s Introduction Before 15th February 1971, British money worked on a system that had been in use, in one form or another, for over a thousand years. Pounds, shillings, and pence — often written as £sd — formed the backbone of everyday commerce across the United Kingdom. When decimalisation arrived and … Read more
British Coins: A History from the Penny to the Pound There are few hobbies that connect you so directly to British history as coin collecting. Hold a Victorian penny in your hand and you are touching the same object that a factory worker in Manchester, a fisherman in Cornwall, or a shopkeeper in Edinburgh once … Read more