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Britain's First Decimal Coins

Britain's First Decimal Coins

1968-1970
Coin, cupro-nickel alloy

Coin, cupro-nickel alloy

1999
National Health Service

National Health Service

1998
Public Libraries

Public Libraries

2000
The Millennium Coin. Minted at the Dome, [January] 2000. Created by the Royal Mint to celebrate the transition from 1999 to 2000. Design by Jeffery Matthews, modelled by Robert Evans of the Royal Mint. With mint mark identifying the coin as specially minted at the Millennium Dome; mark inspired by the globes above the west gate at the Old Naval College Greenwich. Legal tender, face value £5, quality uncirculated. Set in card 4pp information folder 17x17cm with insert; all in silvercard slipcase with relief of Dome on cover

The Millennium Coin. Minted at the Dome

2000
Transatlantic Wireless: 2001 Marconi Centenary £2 Coin. Illustrated card brochure containing brilliant uncirculated two pounds coin. Issued by Royal Mint, 2001. Brochure folded to 18x8x1cm. Coin inner disc cupro-nickel, outer circle nickel-brass; 28.40mm diameter, weight 12gms. Coin edge inscription: Wireless bridges the Atlantic: Marconi 2001. Reverse design by Robert Evans, features wireless waves in centre and outer border; a spark of electricity links zeros of the date and generates a radiating series of three dots indicating Morse code letter S and representing the signal successfully transmitted 1800 miles across the Atlantic Ocean on 12 December 1901 from Guglielmo Marconi's station at Poldhu Cornwall to St John's Newfoundland

Transatlantic Wireless: 2001 Marconi Centenary £2 Coin.

2001
2001 Victorian Anniversary Crown. Illustrated card brochure containing brilliant uncirculated five pounds coin. Issued by Royal Mint, 2001. Brochure folded to 18x10x1cm. Coin cupro-nickel; 38.61mm diameter, weight 28.28gms. No edge inscription. Reverse design by Mary Milner Dickens, features 1901-2001 and head of Queen Victoria modelled on design by William Wyon, in V among representation of ironwork and glass panes of the Crystal Palace housing the 1851 Great Exhibition

2001 Victorian Anniversary Crown. Illustrated card brochure containing brilliant uncirculated five pounds coin

2001