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  1. With the rather surpriseing news of the death of the pound coin , another question came into my head

    With all the mistakes the royal mint has been doing over the last few years , has anyone found a pound coin with the wrong edge on , say an English shield with a welsh edge

    Surely with the number of coins produced of many different types there is a pound coin with the wrong edge somewhere , well plenty forgeries have the wrong edge , but how about a genuine one ?

    Chris have you ever seen one?


  2. Introduced by tony benn

    1. British stamp design. As Postmaster General from 1964-6, the republican Benn wanted to permit the introduction of "non-traditional" designs - of landscapes, portraits of composers and so on - without the Queen's head, but he faced resistance from Buckingham Palace. The compromise that resulted from his campaign - a small cameo silhouette in the corner of pictorial stamps - can still be seen to this day.

    2. The postcode system. Since the late 1950s, the Post Office had been trialling a method of six-digit alphanumeric codes to sort mail in the Norwich area. In October 1965, under Benn's watch as Postmaster General, the Post Office announced it would extend the system to the rest of the country. Benn also oversaw the opening of the Post Office Tower, now the BT Tower.

    3. BBC Radio 1. Benn introduced the 1967 Marine Broadcasting Offences Act that closed down the pirate radio stations which were transmitting offshore around the coast of Britain. The legislation made it almost impossible for the likes of Radio Caroline to keep going and paved the way for the launch of Radio 1 in September of the same year.

    4. E in Concorde. As minister of technology from 1966-70, Benn was responsible for the development of the Anglo-French supersonic airliner. Others can take credit for designing and building it, but Benn successfully resisted Treasury efforts to cancel it because of spiralling costs. He also restored the letter "e" to the project's name, which had been removed by former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan after a falling out with Charles de Gaulle. "E stands for excellence, for England, for Europe and for the entente cordiale," Benn said.

    5. The rucksack with a built-in seat. Long a keen amateur inventor - he bolted a chair onto the roof of a car for his 1970 election campaign - Benn proudly showed off his creation, the "frontbencher", at the age of 83. "I was carrying around a stool and a rucksack and thought it would better if I put them together," he said. Less successful than his other innovations, he offered Sir Richard Branson the opportunity to manufacture it, but the tycoon turned him down.


  3. I like 18th cent tokens - they are very cheap for their age and show a window into a different time , it seems a lot of businesses back then used them as advertising tools.

    They also offer an insight into the industrial revolution and how rapid change was helping to change England for the better changing fro a rural wool based economy to one driven by inventors and chancers.

    I like that, "change England for the better changing fro a rural wool based economy to one driven by inventors and chancers." and now the invertors have gone we are left with just the chances.

    Invertors? like upside down people LOL


  4. I like 18th cent tokens - they are very cheap for their age and show a window into a different time , it seems a lot of businesses back then used them as advertising tools.

    They also offer an insight into the industrial revolution and how rapid change was helping to change England for the better changing fro a rural wool based economy to one driven by inventors and chancers.


  5. It might be "Blackadder" gold as made by Percy and featured as the "finest green".

    Then again it might be a fake that someone threw away knowing it was base metal - that would account for it being a detector find as well wouldn't it?

    Most normal people don't run around throwing bits of scrap gold all around the place, well not unless they want to be sectioned anyways

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