Sylvester

I kinda like foxes. If there is one animal i really can't stand, it's dogs. I wouldn't go as far as shooting them or harming them, but i would be stood on top of the nearest table until someone had removed the beast. Dogs... *shudder* Cats are nice though, i like cats. Squirrels are my fave animal though, i love squirrels. Especially red ones.

It probably is, GEM BU then... it's as good as BU gets. (But i should warn you if it looses it's full lustre and tones then it drops to UNC).

Well i wouldn't exactly call a tiger or a lion harmless but i agree with you HPJ!

I may not be an animal lover, but i do have alot of respect for animals of all shapes and sizes, the amount of spiders i've saved from certain death at the hands of someone is amazing. I certainly have alot more respect for animals than i do for my fellow man, i hear stories of kids shooting squirrels or tying fireworks to cats for a joke. Very sick people... I don't like waste, and i don't like the idea of animals suffering for a pointless cause. And that's my two guineas.

This is before we get to the miss quotes... who said 'play it again Sam'? Roger Moore did in Moonraker. Bogart never said it, he is often misquoted as saying it, but what he actually said was... 'play it!'

Alright i'll level with you, if BU isn't good enough call it Gem UNC, it probably is, Gem UNC means probably the top 2 to 5% of business strike coins. (i.e those struck for circulation). It's the best it can be considering the modern mas methods of production.

Fine Master! It does look better.

In my honest opinion, no.

I don't know how anyone can drink Earl Grey with milk... Mind You Æthelred i'm hard pushed to see why anyone would have sugar?

Oli's all for equal rights until he is the one with the advantage... I've come across people like that before.

I didn't know Ronald Reagan was down for that, i'm glad it went to Bogart! Can you imagine Reagan? It'd be like that quote from Airplane... "I haven't felt this bad since i saw that Ronald Reagan movie!" as she reaches for the sick bag... I had heard about an alternative ending though! I do believe the Simpsons made fun of that one...

Ewwww copper... (well bronze but it's just as bad) And it doesn't even have full lustre.

Oh and by the way; Fave monarchs... From a monarch point of view, personality... King = Henry VII / James II Queen = Mary I From a Coinage point of view... King = Stephen Queen = Mary I

I see you guys have all bought into Bess's propaganda... Now let me see Elizabeth I was a ditherer, she prolonged making any decisions, she drove her councillors to distraction by refusing to marry and refusing to name a successor, the Armada was defeated by a combination of luck and the weather. Oh and another little known fact about Elizabeth very few of her contemporaries mourned her passing, infact they were actually quite glad to be rid of her and her fiscal burdens. James I was actually welcomed with open arms by many (except those that despised the Scots). It's only because Charles I messed it all up, partly through his own fault and because of the unfavourable situation he inherited from his father, that Elizabeth's reign became glorified and considered the best one of the lot. (read Barry Coward's account for this, or Aylmer, or perhaps even Haigh) She upset the Protestants because she didn't take the religious change far enough, she upset the Catholics cos she went too far. The brains behind her reign was William Cecil who did much of the day to day running of the country. After his death her popularity dropped immensely. Although if memory serves me correctly she nearly had a crisis at the coronation, as all but one of the Marian bishops refused to crown her, if Oglethorpe had refused too there would have been no coronation. (Starky for that) And by delaying both the execution of Mary Queen of Scots during her incarceration in England she had a rival claiment to the throne on her own doorstep and many plots were hatched around her against Liz. Also the fact that she refused to name a successor until her dying breath mean that if Elizabeth had died in the 1570s (which she nearly did), there would have been a civil war. (Haigh for that and quite possibly Guy to) Elizabeth's greatness can only be measured by her longevity (she outlived the opposition), her propaganda, the failure of the following dynasty, and sheer bloody luck.

Isn't BU good enough?

Wow! You are the first USian that has said tea!

Ah a fellow Casablanca Fan! Yeah i though Independence Day was awful, too patriotic for my liking.

Chris' bark is worse than his bite, it's just Oli you have to watch out for...

I like the guinea! (i'm sure i've seen that before )

or in this case 41 years old!

Yes but i'm sure you could very easily cover the non-British coin area, i mean what you don't know about Ducats, probably isn't worth knowing. Did you ever persuade the guy at Coinpeople that their Transylvanian Ducat would be more loved in your collection?

there are a lot of copper fans on here so you'll go down a treat!

Oh hello GD! We meet again...

yes we'll end the argument, cos i'd argue all night too, but like me the argument is going to bed, it doesn't have to get up at 5.30 though.

Anyhow i will be deleting these posts in the next day or too as they add no greater knowledge to the post. And (yes starting with a conjunction!) regardless of what i say you'll argue back, you'd swear black was white on a bible before you'd admit you were in the wrong.