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Chinese Cash coins are easy to find, you can not say that about Japanese Cash coins. A Cash coin is a round coin with a square hole in it. If you do the I-Ching, then you need three coins all the same. This coins is in Very Fine condition. We don't know what the market is in Japan, but we do know that they are much scarcer than their Chinese counterparts.

We have found this wonderful Staffa Gold, just in time for Christmas. Staffa is one of the Scottish islands and it issues its own stamps. This is an £8.00 stamp issued in 22ct gold foil in 1981. It features an Angel in the sky on this oversized large gold foil stamp. Now, these stamps are issued for local posting only, but it comes in a red gold embossed folder with a green inner. What could be more appropriate for Christmas than a gold foil Angel stamp in a red and green presentation folder? This stamp is now almost 40 years old. The face value was £8.00, the presentation folder cost a bunch and then there is the gold foil. So we think our price of just £14.50 is very reasonable and what a fantastic Christmas gift it would make for a collector or a youngster.

We offered these covers more than ten years ago and we have just found a small group that was ‘misplaced’. They are the Official World Wildlife Fund First Day Covers and they were issued all over the world between 1989-1990. Each cover has a full colour drawing of one animal and that country’s stamp with the same animal. It is affixed to the cover and cancelled with a special First Day of Issue cancellation. They are beautiful First Day Covers and helped raise a lot of money to help preserve animals world-wide. Here we offer them either in packages of 7 different First Day Covers. Supplies are very limited and they are fantastic.