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    2 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:

    Yes. You can see the 'raised edge' quite clearly on the reverse image. The legend on the obverse looks good, as do many features of the portrait, but not the hair. I think it's very much a coin that needs to be seen in hand. 

    Currently up to £640 which seems rather tasty for a 1935 silver proof.

    Is this the proof which came in both 0.5 and 0.925 silver or the more common pattern proof.

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    9 hours ago, ozjohn said:

    The silence is deafening after the EU election results where the Brexit party achieved stunning results  A second referendum without having a second referendum? In any case a result that the Tories & Labor ignore at their peril.

    What is there to say, foregone conclusion. The EU is over there so what has that got to do with domestic UK.

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    2 hours ago, Rob said:

    TM's deal is leaving in name only. And anything requiring the customs union means your hands are tied. Leaving properly is the only way to be free to make your own policies, because staying tied to the single market is, as has been repeated time and again, having to accept all their rules with no say.

    err the customs union and single market are two totally different animals. So now you are saying that Turkey is in the EU as they are a member of the customs union.

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    2 hours ago, 1949threepence said:

    I agree with you on that one. It would have been sensible to wait a little longer as there was never any extreme urgency.

    Another thing - partially lost in the mists of time - that I've never quite understood, is this: If you remember, back on 22nd January 2013, Cameron said that if the Tories won the next election, (which under the Fixed term parliaments Act would be in 2015, which it was) there would be a referendum before the end of 2017. Yet it was actually called surprisingly early in mid 2016. If usual form had followed, the actual referendum would have been delayed until virtually the last minute. Maybe October or November 2017.   

    I've often wondered why that was. 

    They were shiting themselves over UKIP and nobody took it seriosly that leave would win. Basically the country was peed off over the government and voted to give them a good kicking.

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    22 hours ago, PWA 1967 said:

    Yes thats why i was getting confused , as you also do say in the first post that the coin came from the Crocker sale .

     

    Can't remember that far back, If I did have one from Crocker it will be the current one in my collection.

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    Yes looking back it was a 176 I had slabbed before putting it on ebay. I had a reserve of £180 which it didn't quite reach. I then offered it to the highest bidder at the reserve. They had a bit of a winge about reserves I assume because they hadn't got it for their maximum bit. Obviously didn't understand what a reserve was.

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    4 hours ago, PWA 1967 said:

    The slabbing does not change the coin Gary.when you bought it from the crocker sale you told cgs and they put a price of about the same value.As more were sold at higher prices they kept increasing it and is currently at £350 graded at 75.

    Just putting it in a plastic slab confirmed what you wanted which was the grade and the fact it was problem free .

    I am sure now perhaps more people are looking that your other one will do much better.

    Mine didn't come from crocker. Both came from ebay unidentified. I think the slabbed one sold for about £120.

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    17 hours ago, ozjohn said:

    DaveG38,

    Perhaps. However the application to leave under  A 50 was applied for by the UK and accepted by the EU who are the only people who can rescind it. As you can see the EU is using this to put pressure on UK MPs who do not want to leave without a deal. As it stands the UK has painted its self into a corner and a no deal Brexit is the likely outcome. Perhaps that's May's strategy!

    Personally I do not think this is a bad thing for the UK. I have to say If the UK in the top ten of world economies cannot  thrive on its own there must be something seriously wrong with the country.   Prior to signing up to Treaty of Rome the UK managed to operate as a successful country. No  shortages of food or medications or other scares put about. The ports and customs worked ok as well (subject to industrial action). It has to be said in its negotiations for Brexit the UK has not acted like a country of this stature.

     

     

    I take it you don't remember the 1970s before we join the then common market. Anyway we can unilaterally recind A50, no permission require from the EU and they can't prevent it.

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    Mine hopefully will be coming up soon with Colin Cooke. I have only ever had one coin slabbed and that was a F175 which was top pop of 2 at the time, it was my spare which I hoped would get a better price as I wished to sell it. Under performed I must say, so much for slabbing.

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    2 hours ago, Sword said:

    There were three possibilities from a simplistic viewpoint:

    1) Remain and keep status quo 

    2) Leave (with no deal if necessary) for better or worse

    3) Leave, in the believe that UK will be better off with new deals

    Parliament has voted against no deal. To be fair to to them, opinion polls indicate that the majority of population don't want no deal either. So realistically, "no deal" will probably now need to win a second referendum if it is going to happen. Category 2 Leavers (quite understandably won't like this one bit and feel cheated) but this look like the reality now. 

    Not many believe UK will be better off with leaving with May's deal. Yes, one can say that she negotiated badly, was incompetent  etc etc but this doesn't change the fact that EU is not going to give us a better deal now or in two years time. It is very possible that a percentage of Leave voters in category 3 don't want Brexit if it means May's deal. 

    And if we were to give up Brexit, many of the Leavers will be understanding very upset and there will be political and social chaos for years to come. 

    Hence the mess we are in.

    The government and parliament are in a no-win situation and this will drag on. Hence, however unpalatable a second referendum is in principle, it is a way out of this deadlock and give some "sort" of legitimacy to the final decision made.

     

    Yes for those that bothered to read the leave manifesto options 1 and 3 were what we got to vote for.

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    On 1/5/2019 at 1:44 PM, ozjohn said:

    Like I say these sets were offered in red leather with tooled gold long presentation cases with blue interior with spaces made for the coins. Maybe they were made afterwards I don't know.Having said that I have seen  in the past square cases of a similar nature to hold  4 coins.

    I believe at one stage you could order the case along with the coins, before that I believe they were third party made. Some of the larger cases would hold multiple sets.

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