Sylvester

That legends no right for a real one, it should be M B F ET H R L B D S R I A TH ET E Or letters to that effect, that's off of the top of my head.

Yep i agree. I think smoking is going to be the first thing on the list, as the Republic of Ireland is banning smoking in all pubs/clubs/bars/resturants after the 29th of this month, or something along those levels, with a 3000 euro fine for anyone caught breaking it. Alright it's not quite the same as a whipping but hey it's a start.

There's a simple soloution to all that, make all the bottles and everything out of the same material and limit the number of colours, or have them all transparent, like a cola bottle.

Wow i don't think i ever did anything like that! I remember doing simulaneous equations, and algebra which i quite liked to be honest, although i hated maths as a rule. Mental arithmatic was by far the worst, i can't do sums in my head without writing them down. And i hated trigonometry. I was very happy that i ended up on intermediate rather than higher, and as such i was very lucky to miss geometry too! phew... I also hated physics.

No, a Briton is a citizen of Britain, just as an American is a citizen of America, Frenchman is a citizen of France, Azerbaijani is a citizen of Azerbaijan. I keep wanting to say a Britain as well, i don't like the term Briton it cujours up images of a bunch of Boudicans running around in toga like things. (you know what i mean) Then there's Canadian and Canada, surely Canadia would have been better!

Well it should be 1926 otherwise we've got problems...

What is the date on that exactly, 1926 or 1826?

well i was going to say as bad as a Jefferson nickel, but nothing's as bad as that, not even the Churchill Crown.

My spelling and grammar is pretty bad, thus why i don't criticise other people, because when i do i always make a really stupid mistake myself. Also bear in mind that not everyone who posts on online forums has English as their first language.

almost as bad as a Lincoln Cent!

Well i would say gold, chemically inactive, can be found in nature in isolation. Soft so the dies don't wear as fast... But of course these days most of it is mined at great expense. Low energy bulbs probably have mercury in them somewhere, most things like that do...

i was going to put up a picture in here, but i must admit i didn't want to drive all of Chris' customers away. That and the picture was done in 600dpi, so i'd have to rescan the thing to get it to fit on here. And that requires touching the coin again, which i am just not going to do!

That's what happens when dipping goes really wrong, then it goes and retones...

don't ask, Chris might just take you there...

See the Ugly Coin Comp on the coinpeople forum this week, there a very badly dipped sixpence on there, it's been there for the past two weeks... It's just that bad, they keep voting for it as the ugliest... and it is! Can you even tell it's a sixpence?

You can also get coins where there is a patchy surface where the acid has eaten away at the metal. These coins are truely revolting and not very nice to hold, the smell is interesting.

i must admit at the risk of getting shot that one of my least favourite must be those wreath reverse threepence, sixpences and shillings... pity they didn't put the lion on crown design on the sixpence earlier (in it's George V guise), like in 1887, instead of re-adopting the lacklustre wreath design. I see that wreath and think funeral.

Yep that crown is a beaut! Can't say i'm struck on St George though, i've seen too many of them for my liking, the shield reverses were like a breath of fresh air!

You are correct! I still like the bun head though!

With style! Nothing quite like an acid dipped coin... But look on the bright side, you'll not do it again!

Is there any other flavour?

Una and the Lion would be up there with them! But since i've never seen one in the flesh i missed it off of my list...

I think everyone likes Gothic florins and Edward VII florins!

I can't stand her. She wanted to make Britain great, but at the same time she tinkered and throughly detroyed what was left of the industry that had once made this country great. It was her that made us make the final shift from buying things made in Britain, to cheap rubbish from abroad, she destroyed the industry so we had no other choice. Hence MacMillan's comments about her selling off the family silver. Conservative my foot. Conservatives are by definition opposed to change, she did nothing but change everything with her 'new right' and all those bloody yuppies.

Crikey! 5p!!! Even if it was fake you'd probably get more than 5p for it... alright about a quid or so. But i'd say you'd got a bargin for 5p. Does the legend actually say Maria on the front? If so then it Mary.