Penny

Penny from Fiji

One of the most beautiful and inexpensive coins: a Fijian penny bearing the name of King Edward VIII. Edward was King of Great Britain and its colonies, the eldest son of George V. He was a young, athletic, charismatic, and popular figure (unlike his brother, who later became King George VI, father of the current Queen). Edward had a relationship with an American woman named Wallis Simpson, who...