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50 pence coins: The art in your pocket

50 pence coins: The art in your pocket

Sherlock Holmes once famously said to his faithful companion “You see Watson, but you don’t observe.” The great sleuth was referring to the number of stairs ascending from Baker Street to their first ...
The pity of it all

The pity of it all

It is almost for sure that many readers of the Mature Times will agree with Tony Simpson’s observations regarding the Kitchener coin, the First World War and the need for much more effort to be ...
Kitchener coin

Kitchener coin

Why put Lord Kitchener on the new £2 coin – what right had he to ‘want’ men for war? His pointing finger was a threat not an invitation – join up or be conscripted. Fight or be shot at daw ...