INSIDER

In 1890 London held its first international stamp exhibition – it marked the 50th anniversary of the introduction of Universal Penny Postage and the issue of the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black.

After a successful autumn World Banknotes auction in London, we quickly turned our focus to NYINC 2022.

The Insider caught up with Saskia and Issy to ask them a few questions about their work and the inspiration behind it.

This newly discovered Henry III Gold Penny adds but one example to an extremely limited corpus of just eight coins, and the first addition since the accession of the Conte specimen to the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge) in 2001.