Category: Numismatic
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☆ French Gold Coins.
France is a country rich in history and gold coins represent a large part of it. The first French franc was struck in 1360 as a gold coin. It was issued after King John was freed and depicted the King in armor seated on a horse. By 1643, francs stopped being used but they found…
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Celtic (Gaul) gold coins.
The Gaulish coins are a specific type of coin production from the continental Celtic peoples that existed from the 4th to 1st centuries BCE. They started to disappear with the establishment of the Roman Empire and during the early years of Tiberius’s reign. The continental Celts, whose united nation name is unknown, were referred to…
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Wojciech Pietranik. (Born 1950)
Wojciech Pietranik was born in 1950 in the city of Gdansk, Poland. He began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk at the age of 20. He graduated in 1975 with an honors diploma. Wojciech moved to Australia in 1985 where he undertook a variety of jobs as well as teaching sculpture. During…
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Ian Rank-Broadley. (Born 1952)
In 1952 Ian Rank-Broadley was born at Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, growing up and then studying at the Epsom School of Art, where he studied sculpture under Bruce McLean, moving on to the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, with Post-graduate studies under Reg Butler, Michael Kenny & John Davies. Ian Rank-Broadley FRBS is a…