Numismatic Society of Ireland
         Northern Branch

The NSI-NB season of 2020/21 has been a most peculiar one for the Society since perhaps its foundation. The Society meetings moved online...

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Most of us are familiar with the House of Lancaster and its pivotal place in the history of England. As numismatists, if we are...

In this article, Desmond Rainey, in a series of numismatic highlights, unwraps a two-millennia history of the United Kingdom coinage,...

The members of the Numismatic Society of Ireland Northern Branch would like to express their sorrow on the death of Sydney Martin, the...

The Christian church in the 6th century Britain and Continental Europe was rather in a poor state. With the fall of the Roman Empire and...

As the Western Roman Empire fell in AD 476, the Christianity was yet spreading throughout Europe. The Gaelic monks from Ireland and the...

The late 16th through early 17th centuries was a period of great turmoil throughout Europe, both political and religious. It was a period...

Queen Victoria had a very long reign – over 63 years, the longest of any British monarch, until our present Queen Elizabeth II. This...

The reign of the Stuarts spans over one of the most turbulent periods in the British history. The succession to the throne of James VI of...