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Worldwide Coins & Bank Notes => Other World Coins => Topic started by: NumisMatty on November 14, 2007, 12:54:09 AM
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Two pounds Commemorative of the Abolition of the Slave Trade 200 years ago, in base metal.
10,000 of these made.
(http://i18.tinypic.com/878z3ut.jpg)
(http://i12.tinypic.com/82xtgrp.jpg)
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It must take a BIG holder to hold a 2 pound coin.(http://www.freesmileys.org/emo/merv/rofl.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org)
Just kidding I like that one, darn another one I have to try to get.
madspec
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Be careful of the prices :-[
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Another nice one....there is also a bi-metallic version (I think) and I am sure I have it.
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Hehe... all £2 coins are bimetallic! ;D This one is two base-metals which are Cuni in the centre and Brass for the outer ring. I think the lower-mintage precious metal ones are Gold and Silver - I think there are either 100 or 1000 of those. This type also has a very low mintage for a £2 coin and will not be part of the circulating change unless people misunderstand them.
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You are correct...this just did not look bi-metallic in your picture...to early in the morning.
There are a number of the 2 Pound coins I still need to find for my collection....more for the hunt list.
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You should ask Elle, as she had all of my £2 coins headed her way! :o
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I shall list them all out then, as soon as they arrive via seaturtle!
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I think they will be at the Panama Canal around Monday, then traversing North to the Californian coast ;)
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Well if they go that way, they'll get lost for sure!
The turtle just has to head south for Cuba, then turn West into the Gulf of Mexico, and land anywhere along the Texas seashore. ;)
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Interesting that the slave trade was abolished in 1807, but in fact I believe that slavery was not abolished by itself until like 1837 in all the assorted colonial possessions.
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Correct! And a good point to make... of course, it was an Act to abolish this most evil of trades, as described on the coin. Sorry if my title caused confusion ;D there was also an article a recent Coin News which had a lot to say about this....
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Similarly in the USA the international slave trade was banned after 1808. And over a period of decades slavery was banned in the northern states(yes, slavery was legal everywhere in the USA, even New York in the early 19th century, but in the north was banned by the 1820's. It was not very common in the north though and gets little press today. The Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Wilmot Proviso of 1850 and the Dred Scott decision of 1857 swayed the legality of slavery in the non southern states back and forth. Similarly when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, it only freed slaves in Confederate held portions of the south, not those in Maryland, Delaware, W. Virginia or other Union held areas. They were not freed until the passage of an amendment to the Constitution in 1865.
Ah the deep darker sides of history not oft discussed and now overlooked. :o