British Museum

[Emperor Oli]

I spent the last week in London, and whilst on my travels visited the British Museum. Armed with my camera, I took a few photographs of exhibits I thought were quite interesting. They are posted below for your viewing pleasure...

Some dies:

Some dies with the finished product:

A Gothic piece with its collar:

A whole set of dies:

A plaster cast of a full size pound before being reduced:

...on a reducing machine:

[Chris Perkins]

Those are great Oli, thanks.

That reminds me that I wanted to contact the BM to see if they wouldn't mind if I reproduced the 2nd Edition Peck dust cover.

[krasnaya_vityaz]

I don't think the die on the 1754 1/2d matches the coin, the 5 in the date has a higher serif in the numeral than on the die. Nitpicking I know. But I would think the BM would get it right.