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Primrose League badge
The Primrose League was formed in 1883 by admirers of Benjam…
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Silver frosted bronze medal of St. Thomas's Hospital, by William Wyon: The Cheselden Medal
William Cheselden (1688-1752) was one of the leading and mos…
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Steel dies for a silver crown of Queen Victoria
A coin die is the annealed (hardened) steel stamp used to le…
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'Strike a light for Wales' badge
Many people derive a strong sense of identity from where the…
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£1 Treasury note
The First World War (1914-18) placed great demands on Britai…
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Gold brooch hoop
The history of this open-ring brooch is almost unknown. It w…
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Colour-coated pot
Fine table wares with smooth, shiny surface slips, often dec…
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Hinged brass collar
This is an unusual ornament which was worn around the neck. …
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Horse harness fittings
Iron Age Britons probably considered their horses and the ca…
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Steelyard weight
This bronze weight (1200 g), for a statera , or steelyard, h…
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Women's and girls' jewellery
This is a selection of fine jewellery that would have been w…
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10s note, Llanidloes Bank
This note is adorned with the Prince of Wales feathers, a po…
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J.M.W. Turner, Tintern Abbey, the transept, a watercolour
Even before he had entered the Royal Academy schools at the …
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Copper halfpenny token issued by the Carmarthen Iron Works
Copper tokens were made in increasing amounts in eighteenth-…
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Silver shilling
From 1901 the six separate colonies of Australia became a un…
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Tin pattern for a silver dollar
This is a pattern coin (a design for a new coin) issued by t…
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£2 note issued by Evans, Jones, Davies & Co.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, most towns in G…
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The Raglan ring
This massive gold ring was found by Mr R. Treadgold in 1998 …
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The Tregwynt Hoard
This is one of over two hundred hoards that have been found …
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Liturgical comb made of ivory
This highly decorated carved ivory comb was probably used in…
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Decorated horse jaw
This horse jaw is the only piece of artwork dated to the end…
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Silver hairpin with figure of Venus
Venus, a goddess often venerated by women, is shown here in …
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The Mold gold cape
At the centre of the mound was a stone-lined grave with the …
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Milestone
This milestone was found on a farm nearly seven miles from t…
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Set of seven coins commemorating the return of Hong Kong from Britain to China
These coins were issued to commemorate the historic Handover…
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Tile antefix
This object was one of a row of ornate terminals set along t…
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Badge of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
Nelson Mandela, a lawyer in Johannesburg, South Africa, was …
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Boer War Badge
This badge is one of many made by the firm of Whitehead & Ho…
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Brass sestertius of Hadrian
All Roman emperors found it vital to stay popular with the s…
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Bronze as of Antoninus Pius, showing Britannia
Britannia, the personification of Britain, first appears on …
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Gold aureus with a facing portrait of Postumus
The use of the portrait is the most persistent and usually t…
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Love token
Transportation of British convicts to the antipodean colonie…
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Silver sterbetaler of Sophia, Electress of Hanover
Touch the animation button on the left for a translation of …
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£10 note, Bank of England
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is famous across the world …
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Letter relating to evacuation of the British Museum's collections during the Second World War
During the 1930s, the British Museum was making plans to sen…
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Bimetallic £2 coin
The first British coin made of two different coloured metals…
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Silver radiate coins with Roman Legionary badges: Pegasus and Capricorn
The organization of the Roman army had much in common with m…
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Penny defaced by suffragettes
In 1896, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (N…
