scott

yea some scarce 2p's as well we care, but we dont care for all the 2000000 designs of 50ps a year. especially when they never seem to appear in change. well they do.. for about a month. then dissapear.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/offside-rule-explained-back-50p-coin-124232757.html#more-id more olympic 50p.. this one explains offside rule

didn't even realise there was such a thing. mine is the normal type sadly

i just get 1997's...all...the.....time i have 3 of the olympics. lucky to get two very early in the year. not seen anything kew gardens or even a 2008 britannia yet (last 2008 coin i need )

ahh i love those big french centimes, but there was a slight size differance. so that never worked lol but that coin is cool

royal mint doesnt have 2011 mintage figures apart from sporting series so there probably are circulation issues just the mint hasn't said how many for 2011 coins yet

depends on the camera, some can get great pictures with light backgrounds and little help, others don't. go for the dark background.

not the best looking face, but a great portrait for the relief my fave

they are indian, native states, there were many issues of these from varying regions and years. they are not ancient, but can date back to 18th century and possibly earlier.

i like this ghostie this has ghosting as well, look at the wear pattern.

it pops up everywhere, i have examples of small head geo V geo VI and elizabeth II

rare and butchered is this rare enough

nah sunderland would have been fine with bruce, just gyan leaving. and wickam injured didn't help them.

probably will get AVB or kean then (oddly enough AVB manages sunderland on my football manager game O.O) there are 4 or 5 differant 3's though, all so minor its not really counted. plus the wear makes them look differant.

i thought it was fine for old english the law is on the legal tender copper coins which are worth more then meltp lol

i have seen differant thicknesses in buns.

now i know, or at least heard about such things existing in the H and KN's with george V, but i have here, 2 similar grade pennies 1 of 1907 1 of 1909 (in aVF) put them one on top of the other i can feel a slight differance in the 2 when the 2 edges touch my fingers, and also visually, although the gap is well under 1mm hard to say, but the 1907 is slightly bigger then the 1909 (checked with a more worn example and same result, which is smaller then the 1909 i tested but not by much and that is probably wear)the other key differance is the colour of metal, 1908/9 are always a lighter colour then other eddies, could this be a factor (metal compound?)

there is a key thing here though, germany china japan? all manufacturing industries, all exporting, where is ours, our economy is based on these bankers. and i agree, singers, filmstars, sportspeople, are paied a fortune, for doing jack, especially when you consider people like the police fire, doctors etc, all do a service and are required in society, are paied a pittence. not saying bankers etc dont deserve to be where they are, but they need to do more for society, go back to the victorian period for example and look how they behaved then, they helped the poor, now you never see them nor do they seem to care. i think the main issue is the electronic money era, all these credit cards and loan shops, loss of the community are what has become of the modern age, long gone are the local community going to the local shops, they have all been priced out by the massive supermarkets, which you drive to in your cars. and in the 70's university was free, now you get a massive pile of debt in a student loan, which i think is a negative. i remember in history GCSE, and it covered the 20th century, the USA fixed thier side of the great depression with massive building programmes (hoover dam) and manufacturing, and the reason for the strength of german was Hitlers working in a similar vain (autobahns, volkswagen), where britain was nowhere near restoring itself as fast, the war created our jobs. so why has this not been done here? how much of the stuff that is manufactured is british in our shops? go to france, 80% of the cars are french, go to america its the same. all fingers point to making things and skilled jobs. as for the benifts issue, its not that people have no will to work and come off, it is the fact that they have LESS money when working due to traveling expences etc. people should work, but there is little point if you earn more on benefits. so it is simple, create our own tat instead of buying chinese

the energy companies do not even "compete" with each other, they charge nearly the exact same prices and have loads of tariffs which no one understands, yes they have to make a profit, but they are not going about it the right way, look at shops, quite a few absorbed the VAT increase and do sales to bring people through the door, yet energy companies seem to be all the same thing. the people responisble for this recession are the banks, yet you cant tax them excessivly because they will just leave to go elsewhere. it isn't the labour governments fault for the crisis (people point the finger at the governments all the time)it is the banks and thier stupid loans, we are brought up to face responsability for our actions, yet the banks don't seem to. if we want to talk about fairness, the VAT rise effects the poor more then the rich. if privitisation is the problem then that was thatcher wasn't it? to fix this mess you need people spending money, people cant spend money if most of thier income is going on travel, electicity and gas. what is effected as result of lack of spening, charities, and the economy as a whole. the government needs to look at how to make people spend, making profit is fine, but the government needs to focus more on smaller buisness and job creation. more jobs means - more spending more jobs means - LESS welfare (jobseekers) what does germany have that we dont? o yes a strong manufacturing industry. privitasion needs to be on things we NEED (energy, busses trains, NHS) and privitisation on the optional things (we all love a choice afterall) nationalising the banks? that sort of happened when the government kept them afloat, and in the long term could make the government a profit when they come to sell up. and do we need to bring in what has happened to football since the start of the premier league?

there is such thing as too much tax. there is only so far you can go before you make less money from higher taxes, so somtimes less is more as for neccesities, thats the main problem, you have greedy oil companies and energy companies making billions of profit, food prices through the roof (not helped by VAT either, it is time for these giants to get thier act together.

the problem is the debt spiral is caused by greed. easy enough staying within your means, if you live within your means when you say, buy something which is monthly payments then you cant because of jobs, then bank pile charges on top? i see that as stupid. it is all greed. the USA stopped themselves going bankrupt by raising the ammount of debt they are allowed no? thats silly

real money should be the only money, problem with lending and profiteering is, there should be a limit to the ammount of money in the world, which there never seems to be, and here are a couple more things. go over your overdraft etc, the bank CHARGES YOU EVEN MORE. now tell me how this works? if someone has no money they have NO MONEY charging them for having no money just makes it worse, and then creates a debt spiral. same goes for loans, never understood the point in loaning money around like it is no tommorrow. what conserns me is that if a single person acts likes governments do with money, they would be bankrupt. granted you need to put money into things to get stuff out, and that is how it was done in the USA in the 30's and should be done again, instead the government just cuts everything and charges more tax,then does nothing with it.

another decent coin in terms of detail, you can see how clear the detail is at the 10 and 11 o clock position (i have no idea what that is there though) and you can clearly see ghosting. and god knows what happened to this

it is no surprise then that germany were still using silver until 1974, as were the french then, where we ditched that metal in 48, incedently the australians also carried on until they decimalised too, the USA dropped it in 64 (even though they did use it instead of nickel in 42-45 because it was more common :/). that is the problem, governements boorow more they earn, while banks on thier computers add random 0's where are governments borrowing money from? they all do it, there is not magical unlimited money. as for the euro, that was a stupid idea, prices in europe acctually went up when they introduced that and you got 2 countrys basically proping up half of europe, the 3rd strongest euro economy is italy, which is also skint. the main problem is indeed greed, but i feel the governments sending money to countries like pakistan where like 5% of the people pay tax, let them sort it out themselves, spend the money on jobs over here ffs.

and dont forget with edward I etc, you had very thin, sometimes lower quality silver, which leads to bits coming off, or one design affecting the other side (like ghosting )