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CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: The Family of Constantine the Great

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ….. Constantine’s family was large and complex. Both he and his father had sired children with two different women, thus creating three branches [of] the Constantinian family. Most remote to Constantine was the step-family created by his father and most immediate were the two branches of direct descendants he had […]

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East India Company Presents Charity – Third Coin in Queen’s Virtues Collection

By East India Company Bullion Ltd …… The East India Company Bullion Ltd. in association with the Government of St. Helena are pleased to announce the third release in the new series of collector coins entitled The Queen’s Virtues Collection. The collection, launched in honor of the 95th Birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth II, which […]

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Helena, the First Christian Pilgrim

By David Hendin for CoinWeek ….. Some years ago, on a visit to Rome, my wife and I searched out the church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. My guidebook said it was “One of the seven pilgrim churches of Rome, it is said to have been built to house the precious relics of the True […]

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East India Company Presents Victory – First Coin in Queen’s Virtues Collection

By East India Company Bullion Ltd …… The East India Company Bullion Ltd., in association with the Government of St. Helena, is pleased to introduce a new series of gold and silver collector coins entitled The Queen’s Virtues Collection. The first release in this exciting new collection comprises both 1oz gold and 1oz silver Proof […]

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East India Company Issues Gold Guineas for Reign of King George III Bicentenary

By East India Company Bullion Ltd …… The East India Company Bullion Ltd., a subsidiary of The East India Company and in partnership with the Treasury of the Government of St. Helena has released 2020-dated gold Proof Guinea coins in remembrance of the end of the reign of King George III. The East India Company […]

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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

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