Peckris 2

Welcome back Madness, even if only for Christmas!

I'm not sure. I think it's a lion. Or possibly a lamb..

Sorry if I'm being insensitive, but as an MS sufferer myself I was wondering what MSA is?

I'd be happy to go with that! I mean, I've avoided the Brexit topic for months on end.

Then I'm totally baffld by your GF assessment Mike!

The only thing I don't like about you is your politics, Mike. Which is why I'd agree we ought to avoid such matters here.

If that's intended to be as shocking as it was to read, I'm speechless. However, you may have intended something else?

Is that the same coin Mike is saying is only GF? Don't see that myself. I am days behind with emails! As Xmas looms the backlog will just get worse! (200 mails, anyone? Bit of a disincentive).

Photobucket is the site from hell. I wouldn't use them with the proverbial 9 foot barge pole.

The only pictures I can see are the ones posted by Michael-Roo - is that the coin you're talking about? It's graded MS-63 so I assume so.

Yes, but it may not be what is causing Hazelman's problem..

I just can't see it. The lion faces are all there! Ok I wouldn't put it higher than EF but F/GF?

I just asterisked out the product names!

The crucial thing is - despite the demonising of Corbyn - that Labour didn't lose seats in the South. It wasn't actually a rerun of the referendum or the Brexit Party would have won more than a handful of seats. I was just saying that Labour's losses were in Leave seats.

That's the whole issue. The original plan was reasonable, but the government was greedy and decided to accelerate the process, which is what has created the WASPI Women.

"Genuine cleaned" 😄

I once had this, and found that I'd quoted an Amazon review that had product names in and the forum software thought it was spam. Took me AGES to work it out!

Is it the age-old problem of trying to photograph through a slab?

The woman on the left is either Sheila Steafal or Fenella Fielding, but I can't tell which!

No-one I know quarrels with the idea of equalising pension ages for men and women. But that process was begun with a gradual postponement of womens' pensions until the Cameron government decided to speed it up hugely. The result of this is that women born a month later than others had to wait more than a year - sometimes 2 or 3 - compared to women born a bit earlier for their state pension. There's nothing fair about that, and the "cost" is only relevant if you calculate it from the loss of savings from that unfair rapid process. Even then, the "thousands of billions" mentioned is utterly laughable. I agree that Corbyn was a major factor. However, if you look at where Labour lost seats (mostly the North & Midlands) they were nearly all Leave seats. So to that extent, i.e. statistically, it WAS a Brexit election.

Virtually all the seats captured by the tories in Labour's North & Midlands had voted Leave in 2016. This really was the Brexit election. Apart from those captures, and Scotland, the results everywhere else were little changed from 2017. The TOTAL Tory vote in the entire UK only increased by 1%. If ever there was a clear indicator for PR that was it.

It refers to the apostrophe (probably why it's listed as ONE ' !) and when I got them to include it around 2005 that was the only variety known. I used Gouby's 'Bronze Penny' as supporting evidence, along with references to Peck and Freeman's footnotes.

It's not a clear cut issue I guess. Certainly the 1928-36 wreaths can't be classed as any kind of commemorative, but I did hear (where? can't remember..) that they were struck for collectors only hence the low mintages. They would not have circulated, as crowns hadn't been struck for currency for over 25 years; the worn examples are almost certainly due to excessive rubbing, or to being kept in a purse wallet or pocket. The 1927 set on the other hand was obviously struck as 'record proofs' of the new designs. Most denominations in it would go on to be currency, but not the crown. It therefore follows the same pattern as the 1937 and 1953 proof sets which both included a crown which - though also struck as non proofs - were clearly one-off commemoratives. Earlier, there were proof sets for the 1887 and 1893 redesigns but the crowns in those were also currency types. Before that there were the Gothic crowns and the William IV rare proof-only mantle crowns. The 1831 set didn't include a currency crown nor did the 1853 set. Arguably (if you accept the Young Head crown as currency) the 1839 set did. It's a can of wriggly things!