British Gold Britannia Coins

To qualify as vat free investment quality, gold coins must be: ‘minted after 1800 with a gold purity of at least 900 parts in 1000. Such coins must be or have been legal tender in their country of origin and are normally sold at a price that does not exceed 180% of the value of the gold contained in the coin. ’all of our coins satisfy the requirements for vat free status and in addition, our range of british gold coins, produced by the royal mint , is capital gains tax free.

The cup, described as being no larger than a soft-drink can, contained more than 260 gold coins dating from 1610 to 1727. The stash of coins has an estimated value of £ 100,000 ($116,00) in today's spending power, auctioneers said. Gregory edmund, an auctioneer with spink & son, said the remarkable trove is unlike any find in british archaeology or like any coin auction in living memory. "it is a wonderful and truly unexpected discovery from so unassuming a find location," edmund said in the press release. "this find of over 260 coins is also one of the largest on archaeological record from britain, and certainly for the 18th century period," he added.

Gold coins and bullion

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Bullionstar stocks a wide range of investment grade gold bullion coins from the world's leading precious metals mints such as the royal canadian mint (rcm), the perth mint, the us mint, the austrian mint, the chinese state mint, and britain's royal mint. All of these mints guarantee the authenticity of their bullion coin products and are under ownership of their respective national governments. Gold bullion coins issued by these mints are also legal tender in their countries of origin, which is known as non-circulating legal tender. Most leading gold bullion coins are minted in 99. 99% pure gold, with some having a gold purity or fineness of 99.

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They circulated as currency in many countries before the introduction of paper money. Once paper money was introduced, currencies still maintained an explicit link to gold (the paper being exchangeable for gold on demand). By the late 19th century, many of the world’s major currencies were fixed to gold at a set price per ounce, under the ‘gold standard’ and this persisted in different forms for about one hundred years. To aid further research by scholars, journalists and all those interested in gold’s monetary role, the world gold council commissioned a compilation of extracts from key historical documents from 1660 to 1999.

Ancient & Medieval Gold Coins

A newly discovered trove of gold coins found in a wall at a nature reserve in the golan heights, an area israel annexed from syria during the six-day war in 1967, is shedding new light on ancient muslim conquests in the area. According to the archaeological team led by the israel antiquities authority’s yoav lerer, the 44 pure gold coins, each adorned with effigies of the emperors phocas (a. D. 602–610) and heraclius (a. D. 610–644),  were hidden, likely in haste within a wall in the year a. D. 635, the same year muslims took control of the area that was a mostly christian settlement at the time.