The age old question of “is this coin valuable” is common among the general public and beginner coin collectors. In writing this article I hope to provide some guidelines for what generally makes a coin more valuable than its counterparts. By no means is this article an exhaustive guide for whether or not your coin is valuable, though it should be useful for narrowing down possibly...

Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert was born on the 3rd of June 1865, the second Son of Albert Edward Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark. George V did not become king until the age of forty-five when his father passed asway in 1910. George V's reign was one of great social and political changes, in Britain, but especially in Europe, where most other monarchies...

When you think of scandals in the British Royal family from the twentieth century, that of King Edward VIII is probably high up there. Famous for being the King who abdicated the throne before his coronation to marry Wallis Simpson, being one of the most controversial actions in the history of the British Monarchy. This scandal continues to haunt the Royal family to the present day, especially,...

On September 8th, 2022, at 15:10 BST the world was shook by the death of Queen Elizabeth II. I still remember being on my lunch break in high school and reading a headline from the BBC stating: “Queen Elizabeth II has died.” This headline not only made me emotional, but the entire world was united in honoring the life of Queen Elizabeth II along with asking the question; “who...

King George VI is arguably one of the monarchs who experienced the largest bout of political change in the twentieth century, with him experiencing the entirety of the Second World War, working alongside Winston Churchill. Taking his brothers throne after his scandalous abdication George VI numismatically saw the debasement of the British coinage with all the silver coins such as the one imaged...

Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria in 2015. Consequently,there is a large variety of coinage with her portrait on it from multiple commonwealth countries such as Canada and Australia. Along with this, over her 70 years of reign, she had five different portraits; an example of each of these will be explored in the following article....