Sylvester

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.

you'll not like it, Well not at first...

Oli is gonna be critical of that comment.

i used to drink it white but then i started with it black on the odd occasion, developed a taste for it and before i knew it i'd stopped having milk altogether. I still have the odd one with milk.

Tumble weed rolls past...

one with the flat broad edge milling, L I in Elizabeth pointing at bead (or dot), and the 1 in 10 pointing at a Dot, just think 'dot to dot'. I've been looking over a year and i think i've got about 4 now, maybe 5 if i'm really lucky. Out of the entire mintage in 1992, they comprise much less than 1% of it. It's still a several hundred thousand, but, and here is the but! 1) The ones found in proof sets are not this type, 2) The ones found in UNC sets are probably not this type either, as these rarer ones were minted towards the end of the year. (they are remarkably like the 1996/7 pointings) Which means every single one is in circulation, thus what's the chance of a UNC one turning up in future?

Now on the US group it was coffee all the way, except for me, makes a nice change to see i finally fit in! And mines tea; no milk, no sugar.

well there are the milling varities on the 1992 5ps and 10ps... not to mention all the pointings on the 1992 10ps, so many varieties, including a rare one.

i like them all, i've yet to come across a Charles II coin i didn't like.