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Victorian Coin Set
Highly-Collectable Genuine Victorian Coin Set
Queen Victoria 'Veiled head' coins
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The Victorian Coin pack contains 8 coins: silver 2/6, 2/-,
1/-, 6d, 3d, bronze ld, 1/2d, 1/4d. Our coin specialist
is a 20-year veteran of the international coin trade and
runs one of the top-ten coin businesses in the UK. Here
we present a fascinating and nostalgic product range which
features complete sets of original British coins minted
in each year from 1911 to 1989 and collectable Monarch Sets
whose coins are selected for each British monarch, starting
with Queen Victoria (shown on this page). Our coin sets
of Victoria through to George VI contain carefully-selected
circulated coins. Those of 1965-67 and Monarch sets of Elizabeth
II contain mint coins, and those of 1970-1989 proof or mint
coins.
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Our Victorian Coin Set contains genuine coins, presented
in a handsome blue wallet. The fascinating and informative illustrated history, with
accompanying Collectors Notes, provides both a pleasurable
and educational way to revisit the past.
More Monarch Sets:
King Edward VII 1902-1910 Contains 8 coins: silver 2/6, 2/-, 1/-, 6d,
3d, bronze ld, 1/2d, 1/4d. King George V 1911-1927 Original
designs. Contains 8 coins: silver 2/6, 2/-, 1/-, 6d, 3d,
bronze ld, 1/2d, 1/4d.
King George V 1911-1927 Contains 8 coins: silver 2/6, 2/-, 1/-, 6d, 3d,
bronze ld, 1/2d, 1/4d.
King George V 1927-1936 Revised
designs. Contains 8 coins: silver 2/6, 2/-, 1/-, 6d, 3d,
bronze ld, 1/2d, 1/4d.
King George VI 1937-1946 Last silver
coins. Contains 10 coins: silver 2/6, 2/-, English 1/-,
Scottish 1/-, 6d, 3d, brass 3d, bronze ld, 1/2d, 1/4d.
King George VI 1947-1952 New copper-nickel coins. Contains
9 coins: copper-nickel 2/6, 2/-, English 1/-, Scottish
1/-, 6d, brass 3d, bronze ld, 1/2d, 1/4d.
Queen Elizabeth II 1953-1970 Pre-decimal series. Contains 9 coins: 2/6,
2/-, English 1/-, Scottish 1/-, 6d, brass 3d, bronze ld,
1/2d, 1/4d.
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Coronation Set 1953 (10 Coins).
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Victorian Coinset
Features:
- Coin sets
are presented on an attractive mount in a smart blue
wallet.
- Includes a concise narrative detailing coinage
changes since 1893, and a rare coin reference guide.
- Satisfaction guaranteed!*
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We anticipate you will be completely satisfied with your
purchase of our customised sets. To ensure your satisfaction,
we will refund the full price of sets returned to us in
good condition within twenty-one days of purchase.
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The Royal Mint : The history of the British Royal
Mint itself can be traced back more than a thousand years
there being an unbroken link from the scattered workshops
of the moneyers of Anglo-Saxon London to a single mint within
the Tower of London to purpose-built premises at Tower Hill
and finally to the huge modern coining plant in South Wales.
The site chosen to re-locate the Mint was on nearby Tower
Hill, in an area recently occupied by tobacco warehouses,
and much earlier by the great Cistercian Abbey of St Mary
of Graces. Preliminary work began in 1805, the buildings
were finished by the end of 1809, and the state of art machinery
was given a trial run in April 1810. During 1811 the transfer
from the Tower was largely completed though it was August
1812 before the keys of the old Mint were finally delivered
to the Constable of the Tower. The new Mint, with its 'stupendous
and beautiful' machinery, stood in sharp contrast to the
old. The main building, designed by James Johnson and completed
by Robert Smirke, achieved 'modest grandeur'. It was flanked
by two gatehouses, while behind it, and separated from it
by an open quadrangle, were the buildings housing the machinery.
There were dwelling houses for officers and staff, and the
site was surrounded by a boundary wall, along the inside
of which ran a narrow alley. Patrolled by soldiers from
the Mint's military guard, this alley became known as the
Military Way. In the 1880's the factory buildings were reconstructed
and extended, with new coining presses being installed and
melting and rolling capacity increased. Further rebuilding
was undertaken at the turn of the century; steam gave way
to electricity; dwellings were taken over; and the work
of construction and renovation became a continuous process
as the Mint endeavoured to cope with an enormous increase
in the demand for coinage at home and abroad. By the 1960s
little of the original mint remained, apart from the dignified
Smirke building and its gatehouse in the front.
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