All items sold by RP Coins are supplied on approval and may be returned for any reason within seven days of receipt. Customers returning goods are responsible for arranging insurance against loss or damage. Third party sales items are sold on approval where indicated. Please see the introduction to that section for further details.
Clients of known good standing to us will have their goods shipped upon receipt of order or as soon as is practicable afterwards, payment being due upon their receipt of invoice. All other clients’ orders will be held pending payment and shipped on receipt of cleared funds. All goods remain the property of RP Coins until paid for in full.
Payment should be made in GBP by the following means - cheque drawn on a UK bank made payable to RP Coins. Please do NOT make them payable to R Pearce. Payment may also be made by postal order, banker’s draft or transfer to our bank account at Bank of Scotland, sort code 80-22-60, account no. 29068662. Cheques or money orders drawn on foreign bank accounts in local currency are expensive to process and may take up to a month to clear. If this is the only option available to you, please add £15 to the invoice total to cover the additional charges. Payment can be made using debit or credit cards as indicated.
Postage will be charged on all orders.
For UK coin orders up to £50 value the cost is £5.00. Orders over this up to £750 will be despatched by Royal Mail Special Delivery (insured) at a cost of £12 per order. Over £750 is £20 per order. Books and other heavy items will be charged according to the prevailing postage cost for that weight.
Export sales are supplied net of any UK VAT (where applicable). Import duties or taxes payable in the destination country are the responsibility of the customer.
All items sold are guaranteed genuine unless indicated otherwise.
Silver
For much of British history, silver coins were struck to the Sterling silver standard of 0.925 fine (11 parts silver to 1 of alloy). Exceptions to this were during the reign of Edward III when the fineness dropped to 0.833 (from 1335 - 1343) and that of Henry VIII when the fineness was reduced in 3 stages to 4oz 2dwt between 1544 and 1546 in an attempt to boost the royal coffers. On his death in 1547, continuing financial necessity demanded the currency remain debased. In 1551 it was further reduced to 3oz 2dwt, or a little over 25% pure. To restore confidence in the currency a return to the old silver standard was made over the next 9 years. There was a small reduction between 1578 and 1582 from 0.925 fine to 0.921 fine. Despite the presures and temptations of the Civil War (1642-6), the coinage was almost without exception struck to the correct standard. In 1920 the standard dropped to 0.500 fine and silver currency production ended in 1946.
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 14-17th October 1918. Roth Collection Part 2.
£95.00
Sotheby's sale of the second and final part of the Roth Collection, held in London from 14-17/10/1918. 603 lots, 9 plates. Contains a diverse selection of Ancient, British, Colonial and...