Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Birmingham Mint" ¶ 4
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Birmingham and Mint
After a brief tenure at Matthew Boulton ’ s Birmingham ( Soho ) Mint, Droz returned to France and in 1799 was appointed Keeper of the Coins and Medals at the Paris Mint, which post he held throughout the Napoleonic era.
In 1797 Matthew Boulton was authorised by the government to strike copper pennies and twopences at his Soho Mint, in Birmingham ; the time was not yet right for a token coinage, so they actually had to contain one or two pence worth of copper, i. e. they weighed one and two ounces each ( penny — 28. 3 grams, diameter 36 millimetres ).
In addition to the Royal Mint in the Tower of London, in 1912, 1918 and 1919 some coins were produced at the Heaton Mint in Birmingham, and are identified by an " H " to the left of the date, and in 1918 and 1919 some were also produced at the Kings Norton Metal Co. Ltd, also in Birmingham, and are identified by " KN " to the left of the date.
For the first fifty years of Canadian coinage ( cents meant to circulate in the Province of Canada were first struck in 1858 ), the coins were struck at the Royal Mint in London, though some were struck at the private Heaton Mint in Birmingham, England.
* Birmingham Mint ( United Kingdom )
His successor Sultan Mohamed Shamshudeen III ( 1904 1935 ) made the last of these coins, 1 and 4 laari denominations, which were struck in the United Kingdom by Heaton's Mint, Birmingham, England in 1913.
It was also home to the first steam-powered mint, whose presses were subsequently used at the first Birmingham Mint
The Birmingham Mint, a coining mint, originally known as Heaton's Mint or Ralph Heaton & Sons, in Birmingham, England started producing tokens and coins in 1850 as a private enterprise, separate from, but in cooperation with the Royal Mint.
Shortly before his death, Ralph III converted the family business into a public limited liability company, passing control on 22 March 1889 to the new company named The Mint, Birmingham, Limited.
In addition to manufacturing coins, the Birmingham Mint also produced proof medals and tokens for vending machines.
* The Birmingham Mint Website
The Birmingham Mint also became internationally renowned for its high-quality coins, as did Cadburys for its chocolate and workers welfare and rights.
As a youth he had a variety of jobs, including shelf stacking, dish washing and work at the Birmingham Mint.
All Canadian coins ( including five-cent coins ) were struck in England at the Royal Mint ( no mint mark ) and the Birmingham Mint ( H mint mark ) until 1908, when the Ottawa branch of the Royal Mint opened.

Birmingham and won
Their first honour outside of Italy was recorded in 1960 61 when Roma won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup by beating Birmingham City 4 2 in the finals.
Housman was educated first at King Edward's School, Birmingham, then Bromsgrove School, where he acquired a strong academic grounding and won prizes for his poetry.
In 1930 31 they won promotion as well as the FA Cup, beating Birmingham
They had won the title in 1994 but were denied promotion then as their stadium did not meet Football League capacity requirements this came the same year that they eliminated Birmingham City from the FA Cup.
The first major tournament final to be decided by such a goal was the 1995 Auto Windscreens Shield Final where Birmingham beat Carlisle United 1-0 with a goal from Paul Tait, followed by the 1996 European Football Championship, won by Germany over the Czech Republic.
He won an Arts Council bursary to work as a director at the Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham and founded the Avon Touring Company, a Bristol-based community theatre company, with writer David Illingworth.
Wadley High School won a State football Title in 1960, Given by the Birmingham News.
Handley High School won a State football title in 1955, Given by the Birmingham News.
Woodland High School won a State football title in 1963, Given by the Birmingham News.
On December 4, 2008 the Leeds High School Green Wave Football team won the Class 3A AHSAA State Football Championship and finishing the year 15-0, beating the Cordova Blue Devils in the Super Six Tournament at historic Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama.
At age 29 on September 17, 1960 he put his vision into reality with ABC's first NCAA college football broadcast from Birmingham, Alabama, between Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs won by Alabama, 21 6.
* World Bowl I Birmingham Americans won 22 21 over Florida Blazers ( at Birmingham, Alabama )
Marc played the part of Billy Casper in " Kes " at Birmingham rep studio and National small scale and schools tour directed by John Herriman for Snap Theatre Company and continued his career with a role in a 1988 production of Godspell which he won by writing to the producers, and went unrepresented until the following year.
" In order to introduce the Miami fans to the CFL game, a pre-season game was played at the Orange Bowl between the Baltimore Stallions and the Birmingham Barracudas in 1995 ( Baltimore won the game by a score of 37 0 ).
The game went into overtime, and was won by Birmingham thanks to a 46 yard field goal by Stallions placekicker Scott Norwood.
Dokic then won her fifth career singles title in Birmingham, defeating Myskina in the final 6 2, 6 3.
This was Dokic's first WTA title under Australian flag and first since June 2002 where she won the DFS Classic, in Birmingham.
Another notable success in the club's history occurred in April 2000, when the 1st XI won their way through to the EHA Knockout Cup Final down in Milton Keynes and played Birmingham University.
In the 2005 / 06 season the club won the Birmingham Senior Cup with a 1-0 win over Stourbridge.
The ' Waggon and Horses ' has also won the West Midlands County Pub of the Year Award for 2006, beating pubs from the Black Country, Birmingham, Solihull and Coventry.
During their time in the Birmingham and District League, Wrexham won the Welsh Cup six times, in 1908 09, 1909 10, 1910 11, 1913 14, 1914 15, and 1920 21.
Dr. King, SCLC, and DCVL chose Selma as the site for a major campaign around voting rights that would demand national voting rights legislation in the same way that the Birmingham and St. Augustine campaigns won passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Iron and steel for Birmingham, imported via Regent's Canal Dock, was won from the railways by offering a quicker and cheaper service.
Both Olympic and Harriers were founder members of the Birmingham and District League in 1889, Olympic won the league in 1890, with Harriers runners-up.

Birmingham and its
* Birmingham, David ( 2006 ) Empire in Africa: Angola and its Neighbors, Athens / Ohio: Ohio University Press
Today the Christadelphian body remains divided into " fellowships " ( of which in the UK it is estimated that there are 23 ), the largest being the Central fellowship, named after the now-defunct Birmingham Central ecclesia, once its largest and most influential ecclesia.
Another means for the spread of innovation was by the network of informal philosophical societies, like the Lunar Society of Birmingham, in which members met to discuss ' natural philosophy ' ( i. e. science ) and often its application to manufacturing.
Benjamin FranklinWhile the society's meetings provided its name and social focus, however, they were relatively unimportant in its activities, and far more activity and communication took place outside the meetings themselves members local to Birmingham were in almost daily contact, more distant ones in correspondence at least weekly.
William Bloye's gold-covered statue Boulton, Watt and Murdoch, in central Birmingham. Among memorials to the Society and its members are the Moonstones ; two statues of Watt and a statue of Boulton, Watt and Murdoch by William Bloye ; and the museum at Soho House all in Birmingham, England.
Crossroads was set in a Birmingham motel and, although the series was popular, its purported low technical standard and bad acting were much mocked.
The architect Eero Saarinen, based in Birmingham, Michigan, created one of the early master plans for North Campus and designed several of its buildings in the 1950s, including the Earl V. Moore School of Music Building.
* 1785 " An account of the foxglove and some of its medical uses ; with practical remarks on the dropsy, and some other diseases " Publ Swinney, Birmingham
The XFL chose unusual names for its franchises, most of which either referenced images of uncontrolled insanity ( Maniax, Rage, Xtreme ), evil ( Demons ) or criminal activity ( Enforcers reference to mob enforcer s, Hitmen, Outlaws, and the Birmingham Blast ).
After a riot in Bristol in 1980, Powell asserted that the media were ignoring similar events in south London and Birmingham, and claimed: " Far less than the foreseeable New Commonwealth and Pakistan ethnic proportion would be sufficient to constitute a dominant political force in the United Kingdom able to extract from a government and the main parties terms calculated to render its influence still more impregnable.
Fred Shuttlesworth invited members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ) to Birmingham to help change its leadership's policies.
A large volume of railroad freight moves through Memphis, because of its two heavy-duty Mississippi River railroad crossings, which carry several major east-west railroad freight lines, and also because of the major north-south railroad lines through Memphis which connect with such major cities as Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, Mobile, and Birmingham.
A glut of war surplus aircraft and a lack of government interest in aviation caused the company to become unprofitable, and in 1920 it was sold to Birmingham Small Arms Company, who had its operations liquidated later that year.
Times have changed, the practice of a new play every week and a week's rehearsal doesn't happen, and today the practice of " rep " is more likely to be seen in large cities in the manner applied by such well-known established companies as Birmingham Rep in the Midlands of England which states in its programmes: "" The REP " presents a season with each play generally having an unbroken run of between three and six weeks.
By this time Murdoch had already built a working model of his steam carriage, which was held in the Museum of Science and Industry, Birmingham until its closure in 1997 and is now at Thinktank, Birmingham's new science museum ; accounts exist from witnesses who " saw the model steam carriage run around Murdoch's living room in Redruth in 1784 ".
On October 23, amid reports that four of its remaining ten teams were on the verge of folding, the entire league shut down and the Birmingham Vulcans, with a league-best record of 9-3, were proclaimed league champions.
The link with Anglican dioceses was broken in 1889 when Birmingham successfully petitioned for city status on the grounds of its large population and history of good local government.
Jefferson County is the most populous county in the U. S. state of Alabama, with its county seat being located in Birmingham.
Note that Elyton has long been a part of Birmingham itself, since Birmingham was established by the merger of three towns, and the city has a long history of annexing its neighboring towns and villages, including North Birmingham.
A series of controversial interest rate swaps, initiated in 2002 and 2003 by former Commission President Larry Langford ( removed as the mayor of Birmingham after his conviction ), were intended to lower interest payments, but have, in fact, had the opposite effect, increasing the county's indebtedness to the point that officials have issued formal statements doubting the county's ability to meet its financial obligations.
Former Commissioner Jim McCullough moved the GSC office to its present Birmingham, Alabama, location.

0.316 seconds.