From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9804 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Sunday, October 2 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9804 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Shopper, You can qualify to get a $100 Ikea gift card! ["Ikea Opinion Req] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 00:36:00 -0400 From: "Ikea Opinion Requested" Subject: Shopper, You can qualify to get a $100 Ikea gift card! Shopper, You can qualify to get a $100 Ikea gift card! http://myboat.rest/4cNwJOAqKm4RPaFwp0f3v9umg5EuSmQtiGBzW-TgB1eAwvkWWg http://myboat.rest/1swaz98FFN4lsEU1oUXLoTs-54S3g0w4sJGBm8FcJiMsO3XdlQ its first meeting, on 12 February 1891, the committee recommended that the double florin not be further struck. They felt that as the five-shilling piece would continue to be coined, two large silver pieces were unnecessary. The government agreed with the recommendationbminting of the double florin had been suspended in August 1890. At its second, on 27 February, the committee considered an open competition for new coinage designs, but instead decided to invite several artists (all Royal Academicians or associate members of the academy) to submit proposals. The invited artists were asked to submit two portraits of Victoria, both left-facing, since the Royal Mint was contemplating not using the same portrait on the florin and half crown to avoid confusion between the denominations, which were close in size and value. Entrants were offered B#150 for their labours, an amount the Illustrated London News considered inadequate, and two artists declined the invitation. The competition had a deadline of 31 October 1891, and on 27 November, the committee met at the Bank of England to consider the submissions. The obverse designs submitted by the sculptor, Sir Thomas Brock, were selected. The committee decided to retain Benedetto Pistrucci's 1817 Saint George and the Dragon design on the crown, sovereign, double sovereign, and five-pound piece, and extended it to the half sovereign. For the sixpence and half crown, designs by Brock were selected, though he had intended them for the shilling and florin. For those coins, designs by Edward John Poynter were selected. The committee's decision-making process is unclear, though Goschen later stated that Leighton's influence had predominated. The Ashanti or "Ashantee" Medal (1874) At the committee's n ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9804 **********************************************