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I wouldn't say that VAT is a tariff, as there are only three rates: no VAT (childrens clothes and food staples for example), normal (20%) for most things, and low (can't remember what this is for). It's the same as your ?Purchase Tax ?Sales Tax. VAT applies to goods on sale here irrespective of where they come from, so it's even less like a tariff and doesn't hurt exporters to the UK.

Let's be honest, this conversation is verging on the very silly. Can we get back to laughs please, without "leavening" it with snarky comments? (Aimed at the Farage remark).

Not quite sure of the Farage reference? That seems very inoffensively amusing, and here is another from the same occasion:

Good value for £8, rather nice condition. Sounds like a follis from the size.

https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-New-Musical-Express/1969/NME-1969-11-29-one page.pdf Works for me...

In principle, yes, a very good idea. Two snags, one temporary, one permanent: 1. Trump has declared his aim to stop free trade, and the UK is no exception to his malarkey. 2. Unlike Europe, the USA is not exactly on our doorstep, so the trade in perishables (and therefore the hit to our farmers) - while by no means impossible, would be much more difficult. Add to that the "just in time" aspect of manufacturing - e.g. motors - and you begin to see that even the USA, despite our frienddhip, is only a second best to Europe.

"Ended by the seller as there was an error in the listing". You don't say!

to me, the coin on the RIGHT is the normal one compared to the one on the left.

Could also be very different light and photography - and the frosty is in a slab.

The answer is "yes" and "no". If you have the time and patience, trawl through and look; if not, steer clear. It didn't happen often to me - I found a bulk lot with an EF 1865 penny in, but from the bidding it was obvious others had also seen it. I got it, but it wasn't a bargain in the end.

Yes, but there is at least one very good reason for that. It's not based on your nearest transmitter so before I registered I would have to sit through London local TV news (iPlayer didn't know where I was). Since I registered I now get the SW local news automatically after the national news. If you check "Keep me signed in" you rarely if ever have to sign in again after the first time.

I don't understand that - I was taken straight to iPlayer.

It caused huge confusion with the "Paul is dead" myth - did he disappear on 11th of September or 9th November?

Thanks for the link Blakey - an enjoyable documentary

It appears to be an antoninianus (a silver washed coin which was a debased version of the denarius, and used in the later Roman Empire; worth less than a denarius). Emperor is almost certainly Carinus (reigned 283-285 AD) and the obverse legend therefore reads M AUR CARINVS NOB C AUG. The reverse is harder to determine but may be PIETAS AVG C (not sure...). I've no reason to think it's not real.

AUnc, or GEF at the very least. Beautiful coin. (There is the usual reverse weakness probably caused by the boldness of the portrait).

Agreed. Nothing wrong with that. My gripe is with the term AUnc being used (even with a lowish number that reflects the true grade) when a coin has had enough wear that it cannot be used in the same sentence as "Uncirculated" (except perhaps with "not"!) Photobucket... so no, it's exactly the same size!

Just as bad is the insistence some have of referring to a team in the singular, as in "England is struggling here, and is lucky to be going in at half time only one goal down". And the increasing disappearance of the word "of" after "couple", compensated for by its unnecessary appearance after "outside". Not to mention the growing habit of referring to a date as (e.g.) "February 3". Still, let's be thankful that we still use the logical DD/MM/YY format. God forbid we should ever descend to the utterly illogical MM/DD/YY.

Trouble is, the slabbing terms (grades) are American. I have no quibble with their numerical scale - which allows for much more precision than 5 alphabetic grades - but I do get irritated by the use of AUnc to apply to preservation that's even below a UK EF.

A UNC??? Sorry guys, but basic grading here... there is too much wear even for EF, though NEF would be fair perhaps. I stand by my GVF though possibly it's a bit better. None of which should detract from its being a very attractive coin which I'd love to pieces if it was in my own collection. But it doesn't even approach Uncirculated.

That makes them as rare as the 1951 penny, which as we all know has proved an extraordinary investment since the 1960s...

You don't seem to have read my previous post at all Rob. I quoted plenty of facts and figures there.

The worst thing is the blatant polishing - the rather unnatural blue lighting only makes this more obvious!