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Brand New 1st Edition:
England's Striking History. Published by Rotographic of London, UK.
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This printed book (ISBN 0948964-85-5), is a large (148 page) introduction to English hammered silver coins. It lightheartedly meanders its way from Anglo-Saxon King Eadgar in 959AD (the first King of all England) right through the various dynasties, up to the last hammered coins struck in about 1663 under Charles II.
On its way through the centuries it gives an outline of the important historical events and little biographies of each monarch. It also describes in detail, what was going on with the coinage at the time, the economy/world events and by way of descriptive text and great drawings of almost every hammered silver coin type, it explains how novices can correctly identify the coins to the right reign and denomination.
It's like 2 books in one really - Great general historical info covering over 700 years, written in a friendly informative way, and a wonderful introduction to the silver hand struck coinage of England during that period.
The book also provides handy sections on strange lettering, mint marks and instructions on how to clean mucky coins using electrolysis.
As the editor of this book I thoroughly enjoyed reading it as I was going through, the style is not at all stuffy like some history books can be. Even if you're not really into history it really is easy to read and understand. Others that were involved with this project enjoyed it too, in fact, the proof-reader found it so interesting that he charged me less for checking it over!
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