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The Lion Is How They Get You (opens the original)
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There are collections one begins deliberately.Then there are collections that begin because one buys a lion.This distinction will be familiar to collectors.You acquire the Lion of England because it is handsome. Then you discover there is a Griffin of Edward III. Obviously the Griffin should accompany the Lion. The Red Dragon of Wales appears and three coins begin to look suspiciously like the beginning of a set. At that point the Unicorn of Scotland becomes necessary rather than optional.Before
What Was in Your Pocket When You Died? (opens the original)
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There is a particular sort of object that was never intended to sit quietly in a cabinet.It was meant to be touched.It travelled in a pocket, hung beneath a shirt, circled a finger, rested against the chest or disappeared into a purse. It was rubbed between nervous fingers, kissed before a journey, clutched during illness, carried into battle, given between lovers and kept long after the person who gave it had gone.Sometimes it was worth a considerable amount of money.Often it was worth almost n
Your Coin Had a Life Before You (opens the original)
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There comes a point in almost every serious collector’s life when the object in the tray ceases to be merely a coin.Perhaps it arrives in an elderly paper envelope covered in somebody else’s handwriting. Perhaps there is a tiny circular ticket beneath it, browned at the edges, bearing a collection number nobody has bothered to explain. Perhaps an auction catalogue from 1912 turns up and there it is, unmistakably the same specimen, photographed long before any of us were born. Or perhaps the attr
The Bank Went Bust. The Paper Got More Valuable. (opens the original)
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There is something wonderfully absurd about paper money when you stop to think about it.A gold sovereign has weight. A silver crown has metal. A medieval penny contains, however imperfectly, something possessing value independently of whichever monarch happens to be staring out from its surface. Paper offers no such reassurance. Strip away the printing and a banknote is merely a carefully manufactured scrap of fibre. A bond is paper. A share certificate is paper. A cheque is paper. A lottery tic
Fake. Worthless. Illegal. Highly Collectable. (opens the original)
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There is something wonderfully comical about counterfeit money.Someone, somewhere, looked at the authority of a king, government, mint or bank and thought, more or less, I can make that.Sometimes they could. Sometimes the results were absolutely dreadful. Occasionally they were sufficiently convincing to circulate for years. And every so often the counterfeit becomes considerably more interesting to the modern collector than the perfectly respectable coin it was intended to imitate.That is where
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