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I think personally that price is rather heavy, but if the market will pay it then fair enough. I would like to say though, that the comparative rarity of Ed VII halfcrowns decreases the higher the grade; in other words, a Fair 1905 is greatly rarer than a Fair 1908 (for example), but when you get close to mint state that gulf has narrowed significantly.

I had the good fortune to get to know DaveC at the Midland and see his operation at first hand. So I'd trust his descriptions of coins even sight unseen.

Personally, I think most people would accept either Norway or Norway+ (i.e. with a customs union, or at least arrangement). After all, no-one was objecting to that during the referendum campaign, indeed Farage was positively waxing lyrical about Norway at one point. I think it would command a majority in Parliament, and among the >66% of the voters who are either Remain or who want out but are not hardline. Theresa May can pretend all she likes that it doesn't deliver what people voted for, but actually they just voted to Leave, and a Norway option would be least harmful to the economy.

Dealers as long term as they are, should really be expected to have learned how to take pictures of stock. I remember a similar situation with Glenn Ogden some years ago, but he may have improved since then. (No he hasn't. Just checked - NO pictures on his website. Sigh.)

Such irony. Very many Remainers have been saying that reform of the EU from within was the ultimate thing, and something we could have helped achieve if we had stayed.

I think they could just go into the Part II Decimals book.

Doesn't work on a desktop. You just get what's shown above, and the thumbnails stay there covering the date.

I think that issue of Coin News was where I first learned of M.R.'s association with the coin.

I mean, as in "on sale in WH Smith"!!

So it's the current issue then?

I'll be in town (Smiths) on Friday - is it the current issue?

We get paid by the article / word count, not by the number of issues sold.

No question. . . . It's DEFINITELY a horror!

I think Spink splitting their catalogue into two - decimals and predecimals - is the clearest sign that coin collecting now embraces two distinct groups: the traditional collectors like ourselves, and the modern commemorative collectors who also check their change for rarities and errors. In a way this is two separate hobbies with almost no overlap, except for those who enjoy both (there's some here of course); however those here who have some knowledge of the two markets wouldn't dream of buying moderns as an investment, as they know the foibles of the secondary market. I remember something similar happened in the 70s and 80s when metal detecting first became popular, and a collecting group sprang up that were only interested in uncovering buried coins and not those bought and sold by traditional means. However, the difference then was that finds were genuine old coins and not something produced commercially just to make a profit for the producing organisation. I don't know what the answer is, except perhaps to emphasise the differences between the two branches of coin collecting.

I hadn't realised that Jerry. Not sure what is the way round that, except to do a normal quote and then adding more annotations in yet another different colour. In another forum I'm in, each level of quoted reply is in a different colour anyway (black, then quoted level 1 = red, level 2 = green, and so on). That can make conversations increasingly lengthy and unmanageable, so I guess there is no perfect method.

Thank you Mike. It's just commonsense.

Is that from the weight? It certainly looks ok.

Or even just after, for a few years. "The sick man of Europe" we were known as. What with devaluations, strikes, rampant inflation, frequent power cuts, a 3-day week, etc etc. It's most unlikely we'll be back there, but we certainly wouldn't be at all if we Remained. The EU wouldn't want to prevent us rescinding A50 - they fear No Deal nearly as much as we do.

Funnily enough, I was thinking of writing an article on those! But Richard will have the photos of course.

Verhoefstadt spoke passionately from the heart, albeit with a large degree of impatience. Farage spoke his usual quota of lies. One small advantage of Brexit is that we won't have to see odious little toad again.

You could always claim it was William Wyon as a child!

I'm guessing a lot were melted in 1971 as they were not generally known as a 'key date' variety back then. High grade examples would have been rare even then.