The British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme A shilling found in the field shows a portrait of Charles I At a hearing in Cockermouth to determine the status of the coins, Coroner Ms Taylor ...

At that time, a half crown made for a sizable gift: eight of them made up one pound. The half crown was a coin in our old ...

Two of the coins — a shilling and a threepence — display ... below the ground in rough grazing land in the Ravenstonedale parish. The British Museum confirmed them to be post-medieval and ...

Australia eventually adopted its own currency, and now some of its rare coins can make you very ... currency was originally based on British pounds, shillings and pence. That changed in 1966 ...

ShareThere was a time—a time before bustling bank halls, swift mobile transfers, and POS terminals on every corner—when ...

Following his British military career ... that worked for trade items instead of coin. And farming? The book dove deep into agriculture, providing a profitability breakdown on crop after crop ...

The too-clever-by-half investigators must consider this reality, or they might arrest the wrong bird and this criminal case ...

Homes with more than 10 windows had to pay a tax of ten shillings. To avoid paying ... Vespasian placed a coin on his nose and famously said, “Money doesn’t stink.” In New Zealand, farmers ...

One such unusual tax was introduced in 1696 by King William III of England and Wales, which levied a tax on windows. People had to pay tax based on the number of windows in their homes.