Description The obverse shows a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, below the inscription QUEEN ELIZABETH II ISLE OF MAN 2019 / FIVE POUNDS in the hub of a Celtic cross, of which the beams and the surrounding ring are adorned with Celtic interlace decoration. The reverse is dedicated to King Manannán: It shows him in […]
Saint Helena and East India Company bring faithful reproduction of famed British trade dollar
The government and treasury of St. Helena, in association with the East India Company, have issued their first silver bullion coin which is in tribute to Great Britain’s famed trade dollar — once the best known silver coin in Asia. This is the first coin which has been commissioned by the East India Company to be […]
Rare Viking Coins Found by Irish Treasure Hunter
Back in May of 2016, a 43-year-old treasure hunter named Brian Morton took his metal detector out in an Irish field and made an unusual find. About four inches down in the dirt was a silver coin—and about five feet away, there was another one. Morton, who’d been a metal-detectorist for about 10 years at […]