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NEW BOOK: COINS OF SCOTLAND, IRELAND AND THE ISLANDS, 5TH ED.A new edition of the Sovereign Rarities book on the coins of Scotland, Ireland and the Islands has been published. Here's the announcement. -Editor
This landmark release represents the companion guide-book to the 2025 "Coins of England and the United Kingdom" issued in two volumes by Sovereign Rarities earlier this year (pre-decimal $49.95 and decimal issues $39.95). The UK-based company took over these titles by purchase from Spink in 2024 and the issue of this new volume completes full circle the premier release of the three hardback volumes in the series. This book is the fifth edition since its original inception as a standalone volume under Seaby in the early 1980s, and though it is not an annual publication, it has been in more recent decades a once in circa five-year update, which is what we at Sovereign Rarities intend to produce, depending on prevailing market conditions. A full and thorough review of the catalogue has been carried out by the same expert panel who produced the last volume in 2020 and this new 2026-dated edition has seen many price changes and some new varieties, principally in the Scottish and Irish areas as well as some serious academic review and reordering of the Henry VI to Edward IV Irish series, making this volume a "must-have" update in these areas. The new book is available exclusively from Sovereign Rarities in London until its public release at the annual Coinex, the UK's premier numismatic showcase to be held at the Biltmore Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th September 2025.
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The historic reference work for coins from Scotland, Ireland and the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Man and Lundy, as well as those from the Anglo-Gallic series is the only catalogue featuring all major coin types from the Hiberno-Scandinavian periods in Ireland and the Isle of Man, through to the final Anglo-Gallic coins seen under Henry VI, the Scottish "Pretenders" James VIII and Charles III, as well as the Irish Euro coinage seen from 2002 onwards, arranged in chronological order within the respective realms and divided, within each reign, into metals, coinages, denominations and varieties. The catalogue includes useful information explaining numismatic terms and the process of valuing coins, as well as providing independently-agreed up-to-date values for each and every coin. Also seen are included a wealth of further reading in bibliographies for the ardent intellectual collector! Key transitions to note in the Scottish series are the succession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England as James I, as well as the final Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707 under Queen Anne. The Irish series displays an early Hiberno-Scandinavian influence, and progresses through the Anglo-Irish coinage under King John through medieval history and the Tudors, the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and Confederate Catholic issues, Civil War coinage (including gunmoney coins), Bank of Ireland pieces, through to those produced under the Irish Free State and the Euros seen from 2002 onwards. The coinage of the Islands largely revolves around family names; namely the Stanleys, Murrays, and Harmans, and the Anglo-Gallic series covers the period of English influence in Normandy, Aquitaine, Poitou, Ponthieu and other parts of France between 1154-1453 under the English kings and princes of the time, including the French regal coins produced under Henry V and VI.
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Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: Subscribe All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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