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This one perhaps or similar. I can read Parthico on the worn side. https://it.numista.com/253249

Hi Can anyone give me an ID on this silver denarius please. I know it's Trajan on one side but letters are worn on the other. Thank you ☺️ Weight 2.8 grams

OMGoodness! Not the first name on a party list I’m guessing? 😩

It's only a model....

Are governments about "Fun" things? from my experience over the last 50 years or so I say no

The one that awarded double votes at the Round Table??

Good job I didn't mention the dirty knife....!

J G Scott wrote a book in 1975 about c/mks on Copper and bronze coins which I retained when I acquired DRJ's collection. I will see if I can find it tomorrow night and post what is useful.

My idea a few years ago was to do away with the 1p and 2p because they are comparatively expensive to make and fiddly to deal with, and have the 5p as the smallest denomination in regular use, as is already the case in some countries (I think NZ and Australia have 5c as their smallest in-use coin). But with a just-for-fun and British quirky twist - have it renamed as a 'Shilling' (dually featuring both '5' and 'Shilling' in the design). Items could then be priced in Pounds and Shillings if so desired, but it would still be decimal and technically nothing would change, there would still be 100 pennies in a pound and the 5p would still be 1/20th of a pound just like it and the shilling always were. Merchants could price exactly the same as now, e.g. £3.40 or they could be brave and price as £3/8 for the novelty value. Most would no doubt stick to the way it is now, but it would be fun to have pounds and shillings, and perhaps shillings could catch on at least colloquially. The 10p could be called a florin and the 20p a double florin. The 50p would be 10 shillings, obviously. I think it would be fun thing, but it's no doubt too late to re-establish any kind of shilling now, even in name only, for 2 reasons - 1. People who fondly remember using actual shillings are becoming scarcer so there really isn't much nostalgic connection with shillings, florins etc among the general public as a whole and the concept of having £1 made up of 20 of something would be confusing for many. And.. 2. Physical cash in everyday use for payment of most things is being overtaken by electronic alternatives, so use of actual cash is dwindling and is very likely to continue on a downward trend. Pie in the sky. Maybe it could have worked 20 or 30 years ago!

Oh, I understand it's hardly practical. Just struck me as a humorous idea, especially since I do use a fair bit of currency and coins in commerce here in the US.

I haven't been carrying coins on me for many years now and pay for most things by contactless. Large coins wouldn't be considered convenient by many people I think. But I still carry notes and pay for things like takeaway deliveries by cash.

I had these coin folders for most of my collection that I didn't trust the plastic in. So I bought new binder and some better sheets like I've been using for my shilling run and transferred everything over today. While moving the Elizabeth II sets - both l/s/d & decimal - I noticed something that struck me as interesting. Back when the UK changed to decimal, the new 5p & 10p were made the size and weight of the shilling and florin respectively. That ended in 1990 and then over the next couple of years the 5p, 10p, and 50p were made physically smaller. Also in there though the £1 coins and the £2 coins were introduced. The bi-metal £1 is essentially the same diameter and just a bit heavier than a shilling was. The bi-metal £2 coin is almost exactly the size and weight of the florin. I looked at the value of the 1966 shilling at the Bank of England's inflation calculator and even more humorously, the shillings buying power then was £0.82 in December of 2025 - a florin equaling £1.74 now. Not too far off from £1 & £2 pound coins! Perhaps the UK should introduce a circulating £5 coin of 32.5mm and 14.14 grams... ? 🤣

I have to at least make some cursory effort to inform myself as to why two members are not getting along. Get a bit of background, you know. Although I think I probably wish I hadn't. The BLM thing was years ago and this is a coin forum. Peckris' recent post about Jenrick was silly, but he's still not going on and on about the same thing for years. I'm going to close this topic for now. I may open it again at some point. Please don't start another one or carry on somewhere else where you left off. I think we know where you're coming from by now and you and Peckris are never going to be buddies. That's it, back to coins.

Sorry Chris, when did I ask you to read the thread? You don't have to read it. I posted the message as Peckris to asked for it. It's not tit-for-tat nonsense, so I'd suggest politely you read it. I was quite clearly laying out, with obvious explanation and official statistics, that we have been lied to by media and politicians (a lie of omission) about the BLM cause, its not racist police but elevated levels of black violence that cause a disparity in per capita deaths, and as a result we now have accelerated DEI, further racism-inference of white people and further enabled mass immigration. I have never posted a vitriolic post "in the past" but you're not having a go at Peckris for suggesting that. What does sadden me is the constant cheap Trump-bashing, see above a photoshop of him meeting Hitler, another joke on another thread from Peckris about Robert Jenrick's seat aptly being Newark as it's an anagram of you-know-what. I mean - is this the level you prefer?

That would be a shame Richard. Of the almost 200k posts, the number of arguments where things get nasty/personal can probably be counted on one AI hand 😉.

FFS, alright STOP. How do you have the energy to hold a grudge for 5+ years and still get so worked up now? I can't even be bothered to read all of the 'Proof there is no god' thread, because even with my 'neutral' cap on, trying to be objective, you really do seem to moan on and on and on. And now you're doing it in this topic, years later! Be cool man, at least for your blood pressure and arteries, it's just not worth it. People don't want to see it. I don't want to see it. Tit for tat nonsense. I don't think I've ever paused/suspended or had to take any disciplinary action on anyone in the forum in 20+ years (some that did have bees in their bonnet tended to leave in a huff of their own accord). Please, either take this elsewhere.... difficult I know, if Peckris has blocked you or whatever. Or find some other place to argue with people. Life's way too short.

Richard, it's up to you of course, but you don't have to read it - it's got nothing to do with you. Peckris asked for the link, I sent him the message which had his inserts in it. I had to put up with several other unpleasant comments leading up to that message. That's what you get for telling a surprisingly unpopular and pretty obvious truth, but there we are. Anyway, I would like to hear more about Peckris's "nothing but vitriol in the past" comment. Apart from putting in his dilemma with honesty just up the page (the very recent past), based on his previous behaviour towards me, I think he's made it up, so let's clear it up. I don't know about you, but I don't like to be slandered, so I'm not moving on just yet. He'd blocked me for 6 years (as he told 1949threepence, who then had to cut and paste a long comment about Net Zero from me to get Peckris to reply - no chance there of course!) So I'd be surprised there were any of these supposed vitriolic comments in the cupboard. Still, if he produces the evidence, I'll apologise of course, who knows, perhaps I wrote them in my sleep. If not, he's being naughty, it's a strong description and I'm not one to put it into comments in general. No one does.

Oh dear, time to leave this Forum I guess.

Well, here you are, not too hard to find, read the whole exchange in "Proof there is no god", last comment June 29th 2020 in "Nothing whatsoever to do with coins". Edit by admin: (Pasted text removed. If anyone really wants to read the whole thread referred to, it's here): Lovely, anyway, more lies in your last message. 1. Give me an example of a "vitriolic" reply I've given you, you say you've received "nothing but vitriol". Do you know what the word vitriol means? I doubt it, but for a good example see your inserts above. A truly foaming at the mouth episode. and this one makes me laugh. Feel free to read the whole thread again, and get back to me with your totally predictable non-change of mind, or perhaps abuse. You must think I was born yesterday: 2. If oldcopper can provide a link to the conversation he mentioned above, then I'm quite prepared to read it and to apologise if it's appropriate, i.e. if what he says is true.

Yes, at a certain angle with my coin above you can detect the H.

I'm happy to go with that. I do realise that politically I'm in the minority here, but most of you guys don't have a problem with it.

The other thing you have to consider is that what's left of the H has been artificially rubbed away on a worn penny in modern times, then the whole coin distressed in order to hide what was done.

With closer 8's - they appear slightly wider around the H.