Sylvester

It was last month, AEF for £525 (that's the non inverted three one)

that goes in contradiction to coincraft! The invert 3 is cheaper? Coincraft states it's dearer which in all honest is what i would have thought! It sure has appreciated some way, i'm dreading the 1694 one! Wow i got the sixpence at a bargin then! I've made a profit already. They say to make a profit you make the best ones when you buy, not when you sell!

oh and a 2004 Spinks/Seaby would be best too. Actually what's the difference between these two catalogues, aren't they really the same?

What's the value acoording to Seaby of a 1693 sixpence (common varient, i.e three the right way around) in VF and EF grades?

i can't see it either...

Desani was nasty, it tasted worse than any tap water i've had to drink... and it did taste like tap water.

we have lead pipes... So i drink more bottled water than tap water.

But tea is also renounded for conquering free radicals that cause it! More evidence against it causing cancer than for, so i'll keep drinking it. Anyhow i drink green tea quite a bit, which is caffeine free anyhow.

you should they really are terrible. Especially coke! My biggest sin though is chocolate, i demolish the stuff, bags of malteasers by the crateful, and i always have the chocolate desserts. First thing i do in a restaurant is take the dessert menu and look for the chocolate... I'll have no teeth left by the time i'm thirty! Sorry but it's the Homer Simpson in me... chocolate.... *drool*

Actually with regards to email i'm very surprised i've embraced the internet so easily, i usually hate all new things, but i took to the internet and minidiscs for some strange reason with no problems. My main problem is i don't like change, i never had a phone as a kid, and they were still pretty rare the other side of 2000 in classrooms, so why change now? Old before my time? Probably... (I dunno i just like old stuff, i've always wanted a candlestick telephone, yes a real rotary dial one from the 1930s, not a modern replic piece of junk) But what do you expect from someone that walks around in a three piece suit and with an 1880s watch?

i don't drink pop; terribly bad that stuff, have you seen all the awful additives in there?... i just have water or tea. And not Volvic either cos that is thought to be cancerous...

email or letter. My mates all play hell cos i'm so hard to get in touch with, and they never know where i am... (which is exactly how i like it! Freedom! independence!)

i avoid most things that could potentially cause cancer, it's just my little phobia...

but i do have a phone in the bedroom (it's always unplugged, unless i have to ring out, which is rare), it takes a while to dial though, if you follow my gist?

I don't have one, and never have... I've escaped getting one yet. My uncle did buy me one but i refused to take it under any circumstances... What would you want one for they cause cancer anyhow? And they're's always one ringing every five bloody minutes, if i hear the Nokia ringtone one more i'm gonna ram the god damn phone down the stupid big idiot's throat ... God how annoying is that ringtone! Oh i could scream... Never did like technology much, oh and iwhen i'm at home i never answer the phone, i just let it ring off.

The pair of you are actually doing it now... Oli counts useless off topic banter about who does do something and who does not, to be spam too. He'll tell you just as much himself.

i kinda like enammelled coins, what upsets me is it ruins such a good coin, but overall quite often they look pretty decent despite this. Especially the Geo III ones. I still shook my head with dismay when i saw that enammelled James II Half crown.

Then just type the numerals out and i'll translate, They'll be somewhere between MDCCCLI and MDCCCLXXXVII

Dates for the Gothics would be nice.

they will be if you don't tell anyone for a few years and let them get more hammer in circulation. Then announce it, and once demand goes up, it should appreciate a bit i should imagine. (more than 10p at least!)

Could Colin Cooke be classed as a 1952 half crown expert? I mean he's studied them/it all...

just the 10ps William, the 5ps are all common to my knowledge.

no what i meant was there is no such thing as a coin that is good for its age, i've seen Ancient Greek coins in better condition.

i think i've got along way to go before i'm an expert in anything... despite what Chris may think by making me an expert member! It takes years of study to be an expert.

you are lucky! (it definately says 1992 right?) cos i thought i'd found a few once but they were 1996... Oh the irony, now if i had been looking for a 1996... They do turn up occasionally, if the mintage figures are precise then exactly 1% would mean that of the rarer type there are 1,291,743 of them in existence, but the mintage was much less than 1% according to Tony Clayton's site, which means that there could be less than 1 million minted, which means they are a good deal scarcer than many predecimal coins of George V's reign, and scarcer than even some Edward VII coins. The other scarce variant of 1992 10p, with the L and I pointing between dots, and the 1 in 10 also between dots, with broad flat milling are quite scarce, also less than 1% of the mintage. more info see... http://www.tclayton.demon.co.uk/dec5.html (anyone got a 1992 mint set [not proof] so that we can ascertain which type is in there, i'm thinking L I between dots and 1 in 10 at dot.