The Birmingham Mint was a coining mint and metal-working company based in Birmingham, England. Formerly the world's largest privately owned mint, the company...
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A mint is an industrial facility which manufactures coins that can be used as currency. The history of mints correlates closely with the history of coins...
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Matthew Boulton to strike copper pennies and twopences at his Soho Mint in Birmingham. At the time it was believed that the face value of a coin should...
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equipment, founded the Birmingham Mint, and put his H mint mark on coins of Canada, among others. The Spanish Empire introduced mint marks to the New World...
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Jewellery Quarter (redirect from Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham)
Sweeny, James O. (1981). A Numismatic History of the Birmingham Mint. Birmingham: The Birmingham Mint Ltd. ISBN 0-9507594-0-6. Portlock, Sarah (9 July 2008)...
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Hockley, West Midlands (redirect from Hockley (Birmingham))
of the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter and Birmingham Mint. Vittoria Street in Hockley is home to Birmingham Institute of Art and Design's Jewellery School...
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The Royal Mint is the United Kingdom's official maker of British coins. It is currently located in Llantrisant, Wales, where it moved in 1968. Operating...
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Royal Canadian Mint (French: Monnaie royale canadienne) is the mint of Canada and a Crown corporation, operating under the Royal Canadian Mint Act. The shares...
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Indian 1-rupee coin (section Mint marks)
smallest Indian coin in circulation. Since 1992, one Indian rupee coins are minted from stainless steel. Round in shape, the one rupee coins weighs 3.76 grams...
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Money portal Numismatics portal Mints designed for the manufacture of coins have been commonplace since coined currency was first developed around 600...
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1 euro coin (section Minting)
without mint marks. The coins were minted in several of the participating countries, many using blanks produced at the Birmingham Mint in Birmingham, England...
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battle. After the demise of the Soho Mint some of the machinery was bought at auction, in 1850, by the new Birmingham Mint of Ralph Heaton II. The common coinage...
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Coins of the Indian rupee (section Domestic Mint Marks)
Coins of the Indian rupee (₹) were first minted in 1950. New coins have been produced annually since then and they make up a valuable aspect of the Indian...
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Joseph Moore (medallist) (category People from Birmingham, West Midlands)
Sweeny, James O. (1981). A Numismatic History of the Birmingham Mint. Birmingham: The Birmingham Mint Ltd. pp. 240, 245. ISBN 978-0950759401. Retrieved 2022-06-30...
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Kings Norton Mint was a 19th-century metalworking and minting company founded in Birmingham, England. As a private company it worked to develop and manufacture...
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The former Heaton Mint was now referred to as "The Mint, Birmingham, Limited" aka Birmingham Mint. When mintage for pennies returned to London in 1891...
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works, in Birmingham Town Hall to the Industrial and Literary Institute, repeated three days later to an audience of working people. Birmingham Mint is first...
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Birmingham (/ˈbɜːrmɪŋhæm/ BUR-ming-ham) is a city in the north central region of Alabama. Birmingham is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's...
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to the Royal Mint and Birmingham Mint in the United Kingdom to supplement its coin production during hyperinflation. The Birmingham Mint engraved dies...
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minted was a SX$10 coin with a mintage of 2000. More coins were minted in 1975 and 1977, introducing the SX$20 and SX$100 coins. The SX$10 was minted...
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Soho Manufactory (category History of Birmingham, West Midlands)
was also home to the first steam-powered mint, whose presses were subsequently used at the first Birmingham Mint. In later years, the Manufactory was served...
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about. The coins were minted in several of the participating countries, many using blanks produced at the Birmingham Mint in Birmingham, England. A problem...
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Warstone Lane Cemetery (category Cemeteries in Birmingham, West Midlands)
Church of England Cemetery, or Mint Cemetery (from the adjacent Birmingham Mint), is a cemetery dating from 1847 in Birmingham, England. It is one of two...
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Matthew Boulton (category Members of the Lunar Society of Birmingham)
to run his mint, and died in 1809. His image appeared alongside his partner James Watt on the Bank of England's Series F £50 note. Birmingham had long been...
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Currency of Venezuela (section Coin (Caracas mint))
1842. Liberty-head copper centavos dated 1852 were minted at Birmingham and London. Birmingham Mint Ltd.: 1/4c, 19 mm, 2·90 g (2 million) 1/2c, 24 mm,...
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1982 and named for L. P. Garrod. The medal is made of silver by the Birmingham Mint. The recipient of the award is considered by the society as having...
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coin. Only 2000 were minted. H Used to identify coins that were struck for Canada by the Birmingham Mint, also known as the Heaton Mint, until 1907 Innukshuk...
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modernise its minting methods British mint Heaton and Sons (later known as the Birmingham Mint) won a contract to build and equip a new mint in Guangdong...
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by Thomas Fattorini Ltd, and "Charles Dickens" (1983) struck by the Birmingham Mint. In 2010, he gave about 2,200 of his works as permanent loans to Wilhelm...
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one mile of Birmingham city centre. Until 2003, coins for circulation were manufactured in the Jewellery Quarter at the Birmingham Mint, the oldest independent...
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