Sylvester

I didn't think it was that bad if homework was addressed early. If one left it to the day before (as I did on occasion), it was far more stressful. Time management, I found, is the key. I did all of my year 11 homework the morning it was due in. And that generally went for A Level work too. I remember AS levels, i had a 3 hour geology lesson on monday morning with an half hour break in it. During that half hour break i'd be doing my history homework for that afternoon. If i didn't finish it then, i'd do it through lunch. Always got it done and correct.

Looking at it another way Geoff. Time of war, gold stadard dropped, top silver denominations hoarded. The remaining demoninations have to make up for the shortage. Thus they see more circulation. At this time most coin collectors would have been those with disposable income, lower middle classes and above. Of which if some have gone to war there'll be less collectors around, and any collectors that are around will probably have been going after the top denominations to protect their assets in silver.

If you think year 11's bad then there's two other years you should really watch out for. A2 and the third year of degree.

Kenneth Williams you mean? Kenneth Moore was the one that was in 'A Night to Remember'. Some coins are just rarer, i wonder if the war had a part to play. Most collectors at that time would have been men, men had other things on their mind at that particular time. The middle classes surely would have been called up as well as the working classes. Since most of the working class were physically unfit to go fighting. Most of them under-fed. Well it's a thought?

I thought i'd seen Melvin Hayes before! (and here was me thinking it was Carry On England, oh well...)

Happy Birthday!

Dot Cotton? Oh sorry it's Branning now.

Yeah i'll draft something up on the regular issue die varities. There really only is the 1992 10 pences and that 1983 2p of note. I don't think there's much else as of yet. But we'd be the first catalogue to get the 10 pences stuck in.

What period of hammered? Any Anglo-Saxon or Henry VI?

Does research for a coin catalogue count? Because if so you've already done that...

It's human i presume...

What do they shout (or whisper) if it's indeterminate?

You can't put a kid down for trying! Oh you can, you can trip him up, stamp on him and throw a bucket of sand on him for good measure. Some people call me cruel, i call it justice.

oh and 'terminus post-quem' and 'terminus ante-quem' which i learned in my days doing archæology. From history study i picked up a few others, sola fidei, sola scriptura. Septem Sacramentorum. And i can just about count in latin.

I got Status Quo, no idea what the other mean though. I can remember stuff like per annum, ibidem, etcetera, anti/post meridian (sp?), pater noster, anno domini, and the other odd word here and there. Which is not too bad considering i've never studied Latin. Having said that though i was never all that fantastic at the languages i did study, i think in English, i guess i'm just not a language person. Or a maths person... Although oddly enough i liked science.

I can never remember what that means! (I must have looked it up forty times). "Buyer Beware" I somehow keep thinking it means something to do with something being empty. Thanks you saved me having to dig the Latin dictionary off of it's shelf. I have real trouble remembering what Latin phrases mean, i dunno why it just doesn't go in.

I can never remember what that means! (I must have looked it up forty times). Some of these ebay people need either help or a bullet. Which often amounts to the same thing.

I liked the history of medicine, it wasn't one of those horrible history modules putting marxist/socialist views on everything and then claiming to be unbiased. Which is the reason i avoid modern history. To moralistic. Older history tends to be taught the old fashioned way.

Can you post pictures? If not you'll have to describe the design, there's no way we can tell what you've got unless you give us more info. Is it silver, gold, bronze? What size is it, does it say on it what it is (i.e One Shilling). Otherwise it'd be like me walking into a car dealers saying i'd got a 1964 registered car with four wheels and a steering wheel.

Have you left school now then Jon?

The one and only.

Unless you're called Colin. (Sorry private in-joke, Oli will get it though)

That, well that, that is indescribable. And it's one hell of a find! She's gorgeous, well struck, little wear, nice legends, nice flan. Some of us have to pay for such quality!

22mm, then it is most definately a gold sovereign. Just like this one... http://www.goldsovereigns.co.uk/forsalegeorgev.html (Crowns are silver and measure 39mm).

In a word, yes. Very much so. Collectors like original unaltered and uncleaned coins. If it's been worn then it's probably smoothed out some of the detail (i noticed you said it was shiny), which constant wear can produce. Although don't be disheartened yet because it will most probably be gold. It could be one of four things; Half Sovereign (About the size of a modern penny) Sovereign (Size of a 10p) Two Pound Coin (Size of a £2 coin) Five Pound Coin (Size of those £5 coins commemorative issues they sell at Post Offices). Because of the damaged nature of the coin (i.e jewelry), it won't have any collector value but it will retain it's gold value.