Sylvester

One of the 1997 £1 coins is fake. It should be three lions for 1997. If you look you'll notice that there should be no coins dated 1972 in circulation. What you can expect to find; 1p = 1971, 1973-2004 (all dates) 2p = 1971, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 1985-1998 (two versions of 1998 [or was it 99?], one's magnetic, one is not), 1999-2004 (all dates) 5p = 1990-1992, 1994-2004 10p = 1992, 1994-2004 20p = 1982-1985, 1987-2003 (i haven't seen an 04s). 50p = 1997-2004 £1 = 1983-1997, 2000-2003 (i haven't seen any 04s) £2 = 1997-2003 (i haven't seen any 04s) Other denominations exist, pre-97 £2 coins, £5 coins and 25p (Crowns, 1972, 77, 80 and 81) but they don't tend to circulate.

Welcome! I'm another young collector... i'll say nothing about my financial status, what's left of it.

Well i'm no good as a rep so i'll turn you down here. They talk me into buying things... i'm a natural buyer. But i was gonna go to the York coinshop and offer him one and give him your addy if he wanted more.

I've advertised over at CU forums but no one replied to the thread. I tried!

I'm impressed at some of the big wigs you've got on there. Eric Tillery and Ira Stein. Actually i don't really like Ira all that much but he's a big name on RCC.

Great idea. Promptly signed as 259.

Yes i've seen that done before. I've seen Morgan Dollars sold for $4, with a postage of $250. It certainly happens, and Ebay gets alot less of the cut.

I'll advertise it on Coin Universe forums, Wybrit and Co's hiding place. Have you tried Waterstones or Ottakers?

I never had any homework ever till year 7... then it hit. But actually looking back on it, it was dead easy compared to what i got put through in Yr11! Which was a piece of cake compared to A2. Infact chaps i can honestly say A2 was the hardest year of academic work i've ever had to do. Uni is easier. The third year takes some getting used to but i think i'm adjusted. Still pales in comparision to A2 though...

I thought the same...

Even if he is known as Sylvestius there!!! That too!

You'll find Sylvester is well known where ever he goes...

Oh yes!

I'd purposely do it in inches then to cause a stir.

That is bloody beautiful... By heck.

I had a quick look, but the acrobat reader slows my computer to a crawl and i'm not patient enough to wait for all the pages to download, so i only saw the first two or three. Looks pretty decent, i'll have to have a better look when i'm at Uni where there's a decent connection. Could you convert a few select pages of the Early Milled book to pdf, just so we can have a look at how the tabular format works layed out? If it's clear enough...

Too right! Alot of people forget compensation can work both ways! You can sue them for their poor paving and a few years later when you paint your garage door lime green they can sue you for mental damages caused by the obscene colour...

I personally hate this compensation culture we live in. Even if i did get damage definately from chalk dust i still wouldn't sue them because why should i? It was the way it was back in the day...

I actually prefer blackboards. Interesting (or not) story. When i went to the junior school every room had blackboards except for one which had the fabled whiteboards. Now we were all kinda deeply impressed cos we'd never come across a whiteboard before, this would have been in about 1991. It was a novetly to us. Secondary school was kind more black than white when i started, but the other way around when i left. They were actively eliminating them. Now the pens squeak and whiteboards reflect light alot easier than their black counterparts making them much harder to read if the classroom is badly layed out, i.e where light can reflect off of it no matter what time of day. The amount of times i've been sat right at the front and i still couldn't see the blasted thing. Very rarely had problems with the blackboards though, so despite the dust i prefer them. Strangely i find it to be science departments (the progressive areas supposedly!) that are usually the last to lose them. As they were at both school and college.

It'd be pretty unusual these days that, firstly because they can't cane anymore unfortunately and secondly because blackboards are getting quite scarce.

Well Henry II had short cross coins.

I'm a copper-phobe

I hated English literature, and i hate Shakespeare (except for the Merchant of Venice, but he totally nicked that story). Now funny you should say that Geoff, i didn't get into the top group in English but i was in one of the two intermediate groups, where i was borderline of whether i should go in for the higher paper or the foundation. Well the teacher put me on foundation English (the previous teacher had put me on higher), anyhow i sailed through the exam with no problems and scored the top mark i could get on foundation English, grade C. I went to college and took English language, AS level i got an A. During the second year though we got a really naff teacher and my grades dropped slightly and thus i came out with a B at A-Level. Which was still an improvement over GCSE! Infact come to think of it the grade i seem to almost always level out at was B/C. I'm overall a B person. Infact i got B in History at both GCSE and A-Level, double B in science, B in French, and also in maths. At uni i'm heading for a 2:1 with a bit of luck, which is the equivalent of, yep... B. By the way i loved Chemistry... now there was a subject i really enjoyed. I used to look forward to going to those lessons. I'm now regretting not have done it at A-Level or beyond. I knew i shouldn't have done history, but History was my default subject, it was the easy option, it didn't involve maths and was thus naturally not as challenging.

In the late 17th and early 18th century the 4d, 3d and 2d were general circulation coins. The penny was a bit different as it was used for maundy, it probably did circulate otherwise there'd be no point giving it out as maundy. By the mid 18th century i think the silver penny was too small really to be of much use as a circulation coin, and with silver gradually disappearing from circulation i think this coin shifted into purely maundy. Two halfpennies could make up the penny anyhow. By the late 18th century the copper pennies arrived (and twopences), which eliminated the twopence from circulation, the threepence and groat disappeard during George III's reign along with most of the other silver coins. I think 1800 being the last issue before the recoinage of 1816 would have seen those denominations swept under the carpet. By 1816 those four denominations were for maundy only.

Iron-y But you meant that all along... it just wanted to beat JMD at pointig it out.