I have a soft spot for these two coins. the upper coin in both photos is a Roman Provincial coin from Antioch. the portrait is about a third off the flan.
The Byzantine coin is mishappen and not a great design. It maybe made from part of a flan or a very poor flan. There is something appealing in the simplicity of the figure.
Decimals finally get
the point!
Britain
is set to give up decimalisation and return to pounds shillings and pence. The fifty
year long experiment has been a success but it is now time for change in Brits’
pockets.
The
old denominations will be reintroduced gradually over 1st April which will now
be called A Day. If all goes well we may return to Libra solidus and denarius. Instead
of coins being marked “new pence” will now be “new old pence”
Authorities
are also thinking of reintroducing those handy denominations that were so
popular such as the third and quarter farthing, 1 ½ pence and Cartwheel
twopence. If goes well they will re-introduce the noble and angel
It
is to be hoped that other countries will return to pre decimal currency. The
USA may adopt the same system and perhaps our European friends will keep the
euro but have twelve schillings and 240 pfennigs/centimes.
Have
a good day.
