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Fair enough - I didn't know that. HOWEVER... the total shortfall across Europe is 400,000 of which 76,000 are disproportionately in the UK. And a large part of that is due to Brexit as the East European truck drivers have all gone home. Yes, Covid is a facet too, but Brexit is cited as contributing factor.

You missed the crucial paragraph in that link: "Customers can ask for a pound of bananas but traders are obliged to weigh them in metric units. Thoburn had used imperial scales."

Did you catch the seller's name? coinshavesouls ... I think that should read "coin shaves souls"

He and Saint were legends 😢

No they didn't. Typical Daily Mail invention 0% based on fact. The EU did not have officials over here checking on food labels etc. And we were only ever half-assed metric anyway: pints etc in pubs. Miles not kilometres. Lots of food sold in 454g (1lb) packs. Same with our membership of the EU : not in the Eurozone. Not in Shengen. A big budget rebate making our contribution the lowest % of GDP of any member. And in return, we had lots of lorry drivers and no empty supermarket shelves. . The only generation comfortable with Imperial-only is the faux-nostalgic old fogeys who won't be around very much longer.

LMAO. The extra (fig) leaf appears to be on the reverse...

"No. Cencel thet. It's from Pizza Express..."

You'll probably find there are more varieties and micro-varieties for 1858 than all the other copper series dates put together.

Wow. I never knew he'd been a writer of Chinese fiction, for which he was apparently better known.

I'd like to see the bronze coins disappear completely. The 1p is worth less in real terms than the 1/4d was when demonetised.

Is that the finest known 1882 no H ? I've never seen one anywhere near that good.

Agreed. The Facebook group seems better suited to beginners as you say - where they can get immediate answers but don't need to access stuff from ages ago. Mind you, there's always the 'Search within Group' feature to find older stuff - though it has to be a Group not a Page (what's the difference? who knows. who cares...)

The site is back to normal today

the site doesn't load properly in Firefox as of today. deleting Local Storage (always my cure before now for the occasional FF problem) doesn't do anything. running it in Chromium seems to work ok.

yes, I think I prefer the cleaned HC too - especially the obverse.

Isn't the etymology of trump, 'trump'? As in, make a loud noise that smells really bad...

Ah, not in my role as coin collector. However, in my role as big time arms dealer and drugs runner on the dark web, I do have some familiarity with it...

OMG. Who are these sad people who don't seem to realise that a lip job is INSTANTLY so very very obvious?

Exactly my thoughts when I got the UNC 1930 HC earlier this year - possibly paid top whack or higher but to complete that series with the hardest date was worth it for me.

Wow, that makes mine something to be reappraised! Mind you, there's probably a gulf between these that are 90% and the ones that are 95% +

South Sea Bubble...

Probably declared their imperium stolen from them and got the mob to march on the Senate building!!

I'll try and remember that in future.

Could be a crude copy?

can't tell, sorry