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Edward VIII 1901-1910 AD
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Coin Writing Translations:
MONETARY SYSTEM
FARTHING
1 penny = 4 farthings
PENNY
1 shilling = 12 pence
GROAT
4 pence = 1 groat
SHILLING
1 sovereign = 20 shillings
FLORIN
2 shillings = 1 florin
CROWN
5 shillings = 1 crown
SOVEREIGN
20 shillings = 1 sovereign
FARTHING
1 penny = 4 farthings
PENNY
1 shilling = 12 pence
GROAT
4 pence = 1 groat
SHILLING
1 sovereign = 20 shillings
FLORIN
2 shillings = 1 florin
CROWN
5 shillings = 1 crown
SOVEREIGN
20 shillings = 1 sovereign
Because of the Abdication in December 1936 no coins of Edward VIII were issued in the United Kingdom. There had, however, been time for pattern pieces to be prepared and the Royal Mint Museum contains the finest collection of such pieces in the world.
Such was the sensitivity surrounding the Abdication that for many years these patterns were locked away and not treated as part of the Museum collection; few people knew what had survived and the existence of the coins became something of a mystery even within the Royal Mint. It was not until the retirement of Sir Jack James, Deputy Master from 1957 to 1970, that a sealed cardboard box was retrieved from a safe in his office and found to contain no fewer than 49 coins of Edward VIII.
Such was the sensitivity surrounding the Abdication that for many years these patterns were locked away and not treated as part of the Museum collection; few people knew what had survived and the existence of the coins became something of a mystery even within the Royal Mint. It was not until the retirement of Sir Jack James, Deputy Master from 1957 to 1970, that a sealed cardboard box was retrieved from a safe in his office and found to contain no fewer than 49 coins of Edward VIII.
Three other specimens had in fact survived in the Mint but, as uniface reverses, had not been associated with Edward VIII. One of these, the pattern crown RMM 14, had come into the collection from the Operative Department in March 1938 but the other two, the penny RMM 52 and the halfpenny RMM 57, had found their way for some reason into the coin collection held in the Assay Department. In January 1974, with the consent of the Chemist and Assayer, Mr E. G. V. Newman, in whose office the collection was kept, the two uniface patterns were extracted for the Museum.
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