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Not to my knowledge. You just have to go on your own research/experience. The vast majority that turn up are Newark, with probably half of the ones you see having been holed for suspension. Scarborough is the rarest hence the seemingly high price. Carlisle is second hardest to acquire and if anybody has a spare I have a customer waiting Should have bought the one in the last CNG sale. $23K hammer wasn't over the top for a Carlisle and that one was quite a decent example. As for Scarboroughs, most are in museums or places such as the ANA collection thanks to Norweb, so the rarity factor is magnified. I think on the whole though, 1 or 2 pieces is the norm for each denomination known. I saw it but his pockets are not that deep! I think he could go £8k-ish if anybody would like me to broker a deal.

Not to my knowledge. You just have to go on your own research/experience. The vast majority that turn up are Newark, with probably half of the ones you see having been holed for suspension. Scarborough is the rarest hence the seemingly high price. Carlisle is second hardest to acquire and if anybody has a spare I have a customer waiting

Funny, cos i have mine on the bay at a fair price and only 3 offers, and way less than i'm prepared to let it go for, so where are those buyers?I did turn down 1000 GBP on account of the fees incured and the guy did'nt want to pay by bank transfer so another 60 quid would have went down the swanny, so i had to decline If buyers are paying a premium they tend to want a premium coin Dave. Unfortunately the Newark pieces, although scarce, are the commonest of all of the siege coinages.

I don't know Debbie, it reminds me of the wife, the obverse does anyway I quite like it too, but I don't know quite where I could sit it in the collection. If I put it up on the bay I will drop you a PM. I have just had a good look at an enlarged picture and it looks like the 2/1 variety!

Acquired today as part of an interesting exonumia collection.

They don't step down. It is like being Pope or an annoying tit like Simon Cowell, a job for life! They only abdicate if they are shagging an American divorcee and I think Liz is a wee bit long in the tooth for that one.

I saw that on faeces book Same thing I believe Peter, a total load of shite

The priority scale has to be like that for armed police Peck because we worked in pairs, the army work in squads. If we arrived at a job and put ourselves in a position where the outcome would be death or serious injury there was nobody else left to protect the public (nearest ARV being 20/30 miles away). Obviously if your partner went down you would try to help him/her and that would put you in the firing line. Your first priority is yourself, then your (armed) colleague(s), the public and finally the subject. We have/had to protect the subject as the aim was always a non-violent solution. The subject also has the "right to life" unnder ECHR. If an officer does pull the trigger their next action should be to secure the subject and render first aid (we were all trauma first aid trained). 99 times out of 100 there would already be a sterile area around the subject and an unarmed outer cordon in place. Would I risk my life for a member of the public? Yes, I did, many times. I did not consider personal safety at all when I was in the job UNTIL it was a firearms incident where I had greater responsibilities.

Absolutely spot on, Peck. The problem with the shooting of Mark Duggan is that the entire proceedings is shrouded in mystery. Was he a gun toting low life chav on his way to despatch a rival gang member, or was he, as you say, an unarmed man who was the victim of a planned police execution ? Who knows ~ in fact we don't know and will have to wait for the inquest conducted by the (apparently) unbiased IPCC. We do know the police can be trigger happy on occasions and have "accidentally" shot dead innocent men. Harry Stanley and Jean Charles de-Menezes spring readily to mind. You're also right about the banks. I daren't use all the adjectives I'd like to use about them, because Chris would probably (and rightly) ban me. The current austerity is down totally to their greed and profligacy. Nothing to do with Tony Blair or Gordon Brown, everything to do with them. They are the reason the rest of us are suffering from a decreased standard of living, and seeing our incomes squeezed. What's more, as I said a week or two back, not a single word about them paying back what they've shafted the public purse for. I would so like to put Cameron on the spot over the banks and what they owe the British people. As far as I can tell, those who have paid into the state second pension and its predecessor, SERPS, will not lose out on what they have contributed ~ so they could still end up with quite a bit more than £140 per week. The real winners will be those who are already in a solid occupational pension, who have been contracted out, and who are set to reach state pension age after 2016. They will cream their works pension, and the full £140 per week in one go, having paid nothing into the increase. The ultimate winners will be guys born in most of 1951, all of 1952 and the greater part of 1953, who will be the last to benefit from drawing their (noe enhanced) state pension at age 65. I know about this because I'm currently engaged in a project about it at work. This is organising a pre-retirement course for older workers. Not sure why they've given it to me, but although slightly incredulous at first, I've actually found the entire subject, extremely interesting and productive of a lot of useful knowledge. Useful link here Having worked as an armed response officer for 8 years I'll just stop you there. The former was "bigged up" by witnesses to sound like an IRA terrorist. The mainland was getting hammered at the time. He was challenged by armed officers in the street and reacted by raising the table leg (which was in a bag and reported to police as a sawn off shotgun). I would have dropped him stone cold. The latter was the subject of a bungled surveillance op and was believed to be a suicide bomber on a packed train with a primed device. The strike team were ORDERED to shoot. I would have taken the shot(s) also because 1 life is definitely worth less than dozens of innocents. As for Mr Duggan I have no inside knowledge as I am out of the loop now, but "executed"? You need to have a word with yourself Mike. A police firearms officer is faced with split second decisions, life or death ones. I worked on the ethos that the priority was 1) my life, because if I get dropped I cannot protect anybody 2) my colleagues 3) the public and 4) the subject. For a firearms officer to pull the trigger there has to be a genuine or perceived immediate threat to life. There is no shoot to kill, as an AFO you shoot to "stop or incapacitate" the subject. An AFO is also subject to the laws of the land and you always ran the risk of being charged with murder if the wheels came off. Pulling the trigger is the very last thing that any of us wanted to do and it was the very last thing that our training primed us to do.

Thanks again! I have made a donation to the North area charity for you. I will let you know when the coins arrive. A forum member kindly informed me you are a trusted coin dealer, so I googled your username and found your website. You have some very nice coins in my budget for me to consider... I am probably just blind, but I could not find your postage costs, are they available to see in the checkout process? The postage is added at checkout, BUT, please buy from Chris before you come to me. If it wasn't for Chris running this forum you would likely have taken a long time to find my website. Any business I get as a user on here is nice but I am mainly here to talk to/help fellow collectors. Thanks for the donation up Norf

Peter, Very, very sorry but the only 1719 farthing I had has just gone off to Mongo. It was only nearly Fine and not worth bothering about. There were also a couple with Queen Anne on again only nearly Fine. Sorry, John.

Thanks! Thats very nice of you, I will send you my details in PM. With the UNC decimal coins, its not the value that appeals, but more the look of a bright shiny unused coin... Its interesting really, I had never even taken a second look at any coins in my pocket, but since taking an interest in coins, even a nice looking 5 pence that I got given as change yesterday is nice to the eye!..... I just done a quick google, I can donate some money to the charity via their website here: http://www.midlandsairambulance.com/shop/?c=20 Is this the correct air ambulance charity? Thanks again I live near Penrith in Cumbria and in the area of the Great North Air Ambulance. http://www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk/donate BUT you can donate to your own area if you prefer or an area wher you think they especially need it (Snowdonia for example if you are a climber etc). Any money to any area is a help. I will post your goody bag today John.

Peck made a good assessment in relation to your purchases. Your question regarding where to go next is a bit of a personal choice really. Coinery was quite right to say that you will never get rich nor die broke if you continue with small cost purchases. If you are in it because you like the history and design of our coinage the selling price when/if you move them on won't really matter. Decimal coins I wouldn't really bother with unless you think you can build a good collection based on what you can pull from your pockets together with additions from ebay/dealers. I will have a bit of decimal stuff in UNC lying around together with some UNC late pre-decimal stuff that I would send to you for free as long as you drop a couple of quid in the next Air Ambulance box you see. If you are interested send me a PM with your name and address. Buying from Chris is a safe place to start. Fair grading and prices (and a generous host to all of the degenerates on this forum ) The best advice I can give is buy the coins that you like the look of. Price is irrelevant as long as you enjoy what you acquire. I am too young to have pulled gems from my change but the older members on here usually count as their most treasured items the mid-grade scarcer dates or types that they were given as change. It's not the cost of purchase that counts but the value to you.

It appears that the obverse is the side with the Roman soldier with his septic septor and his toga and his missing lighthouse and trireme Wouldn't it have been simpler just to say "part of beaded border missing"? Not so much fun for us though. Interesting coin though, is that a common thing, missing beads? On iPhone again, but looks like a good grade....who bought it, then? I have to confess to not knowing and never checking Stuart. Shite like that just goes straight into a big box to pass along to some poor sap at an auction

This is from his about ME page, choice; "Trust is the most important thing that a person has in life. I hate lyres, thieves and con artists. If you do not have trust. Then you are nothing in life. Yes, we all are human and we do make mistakes. Remember, one thing " Human is to error and to forgive is divine". That was Gods worlds. Thank You Nicholas If I ever make a mistake on Ebay site. I will go above 100 percent to correct my mistake. I want to make everyone one happy here, and make them money and more. Give everyone a great deal! Thank You Nicholas" Well Nicholas, I do not like Lyres either, harps are good though

I think that's very true. Towards the end of 1981 I was working at Philip Morris in Richmond VA. First day in the lab and doing the introductions when one person expalined where to go in the locality. Shopping mall 3 blocks down, Macdonalds or Burger King there for a meal(sic), cinema complex next door, various bars this way and that and then the church is turn right at the lights. When I explained that I didn't use them it was like being the star attraction in a freak show. "Hey, there's this guy here doesn't go to church". "That's weird". It was most bizarre and like you I find the religious norm (in the parts so inclined) quite a turn-off in a place that is otherwise nice to visit - just couldn't live there. It's not all like that though. No, I'm guessing that it is much more a phenomenon in the South and Mid-West. The West Coast is too full of weird cults, and I'm guessing the East Coast plus Seattle (based on my viewing of "Frasier" and "The Killing" LOL) are more immune. Unfortunately Peter, you, I (and I would hazard a guess everybody else on this forum) are the same, but we are the 10% minority in this country. The underclass (pondlife if you will) believe in copious amounts of alcohol, Ciggies, drugs, social handouts, free housing and a lack of soap. They believe that the god of take what you want, when you want was the creator of all things. As for getting on with people, well the only "getting on" they can manage is getting on top of the opposite sex to spawn more of the same. As opposed to the banking class who believe in copious amounts of champagne, cigars, cocaine, state bail-outs, multiple housing, and a lack of ethics. They believe that the god of take what you want, when you want was the creator of all things. Come the revolution, comrades ... If you know any bankers having a party and you can get me an invite, do send it on. If you fancy a night in some shithole in West Cumbria I can certainly pass on a couple of addresses, all you will need is a bottle of white lightening, 40 Lambert and Butler and a hep B jab before you go. I know where I'd rather be.... The trouble with "come the revolution, comrades" is that it will be the same hooded verminous scum that carried out last years looting, robbing and murdering during the "riots" that will be your Revolutionaries, but "one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter" Don't forget that the "riots" began with a family justifiably and peacefully confronting the police over the shooting of an unarmed man. Also don't forget that - horrible though some of the things that happened in the riots were - the bankers before 2008 looted every single one of us with impunity, by creating financial "instruments" designed to profit only a few, and built upon foundations as shaky as the mortgages that underwrote those same instruments. For a more detailed insight into exactly what their game was, you should read Sebastian Faulks' "A Week In December". When you add into the equation the misselling of pensions scandal, plus the billions now being paid back as part of the "loan insurance" scandal, It's enough to make anyone a communist. My sympathies are 100% with those who peacefully occupied the Square outside St Paul's for months, in protest. I totally agree Peck, Communism is fantastic, as long as you are a Politburo member of course. I don't think life was a bed of roses for the Russian peasant before or after their Revolution and it certainly got a lot worse under uncle Joe. There is not a single political system on the planet that creates a totally fair and just society, BUT, the UK's system is up there with the best of them "warts and all" Tell that to the disabled person being found "fit for work" and having their benefits stopped, when they are housebound and incontinent, just because of screaming tabloid headlines determining Government policy (oh, and the fact that the disabled are often too ill to stand up for themselves). I shouldn't have to tell it to anybody. The disabled person in the most enlightened and technically advanced country in the world (The States in case you are wondering) gets bugger all health care if they haven't paid their private medical insurance, as for benefits I will leave our US members to share that with us but again I suspect they get Billy goats bedding! We all take far too much for granted in this country, while moaning and whinging about those that have. I sympathise with anybody that loses out due to new legislation (just like my former colleagues are now getting shafted big style by Ms May) but to think we would be better off with any other political system in place is naive in the extreme. Those in power, be it political power or positions of power in commerce, will always fill their own boots whilst taking the soles from the shoes of the lesser people. People are greedy, selfish and jealous in equal measure. They are in those positions for their own personal benefit, not the benefit of the population as a whole.

I think that's very true. Towards the end of 1981 I was working at Philip Morris in Richmond VA. First day in the lab and doing the introductions when one person expalined where to go in the locality. Shopping mall 3 blocks down, Macdonalds or Burger King there for a meal(sic), cinema complex next door, various bars this way and that and then the church is turn right at the lights. When I explained that I didn't use them it was like being the star attraction in a freak show. "Hey, there's this guy here doesn't go to church". "That's weird". It was most bizarre and like you I find the religious norm (in the parts so inclined) quite a turn-off in a place that is otherwise nice to visit - just couldn't live there. It's not all like that though. No, I'm guessing that it is much more a phenomenon in the South and Mid-West. The West Coast is too full of weird cults, and I'm guessing the East Coast plus Seattle (based on my viewing of "Frasier" and "The Killing" LOL) are more immune. Unfortunately Peter, you, I (and I would hazard a guess everybody else on this forum) are the same, but we are the 10% minority in this country. The underclass (pondlife if you will) believe in copious amounts of alcohol, Ciggies, drugs, social handouts, free housing and a lack of soap. They believe that the god of take what you want, when you want was the creator of all things. As for getting on with people, well the only "getting on" they can manage is getting on top of the opposite sex to spawn more of the same. As opposed to the banking class who believe in copious amounts of champagne, cigars, cocaine, state bail-outs, multiple housing, and a lack of ethics. They believe that the god of take what you want, when you want was the creator of all things. Come the revolution, comrades ... If you know any bankers having a party and you can get me an invite, do send it on. If you fancy a night in some shithole in West Cumbria I can certainly pass on a couple of addresses, all you will need is a bottle of white lightening, 40 Lambert and Butler and a hep B jab before you go. I know where I'd rather be.... The trouble with "come the revolution, comrades" is that it will be the same hooded verminous scum that carried out last years looting, robbing and murdering during the "riots" that will be your Revolutionaries, but "one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter" Don't forget that the "riots" began with a family justifiably and peacefully confronting the police over the shooting of an unarmed man. Also don't forget that - horrible though some of the things that happened in the riots were - the bankers before 2008 looted every single one of us with impunity, by creating financial "instruments" designed to profit only a few, and built upon foundations as shaky as the mortgages that underwrote those same instruments. For a more detailed insight into exactly what their game was, you should read Sebastian Faulks' "A Week In December". When you add into the equation the misselling of pensions scandal, plus the billions now being paid back as part of the "loan insurance" scandal, It's enough to make anyone a communist. My sympathies are 100% with those who peacefully occupied the Square outside St Paul's for months, in protest. I totally agree Peck, Communism is fantastic, as long as you are a Politburo member of course. I don't think life was a bed of roses for the Russian peasant before or after their Revolution and it certainly got a lot worse under uncle Joe. There is not a single political system on the planet that creates a totally fair and just society, BUT, the UK's system is up there with the best of them "warts and all"

Unfortunately Peter, you, I (and I would hazard a guess everybody else on this forum) are the same, but we are the 10% minority in this country. The underclass (pondlife if you will) believe in copious amounts of alcohol, Ciggies, drugs, social handouts, free housing and a lack of soap. They believe that the god of take what you want, when you want was the creator of all things. As for getting on with people, well the only "getting on" they can manage is getting on top of the opposite sex to spawn more of the same. As opposed to the banking class who believe in copious amounts of champagne, cigars, cocaine, state bail-outs, multiple housing, and a lack of ethics. They believe that the god of take what you want, when you want was the creator of all things. Come the revolution, comrades ... If you know any bankers having a party and you can get me an invite, do send it on. If you fancy a night in some shithole in West Cumbria I can certainly pass on a couple of addresses, all you will need is a bottle of white lightening, 40 Lambert and Butler and a hep B jab before you go. I know where I'd rather be.... The trouble with "come the revolution, comrades" is that it will be the same hooded verminous scum that carried out last years looting, robbing and murdering during the "riots" that will be your Revolutionaries, but "one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter"

Unfortunately Peter, you, I (and I would hazard a guess everybody else on this forum) are the same, but we are the 10% minority in this country. The underclass (pondlife if you will) believe in copious amounts of alcohol, Ciggies, drugs, social handouts, free housing and a lack of soap. They believe that the god of take what you want, when you want was the creator of all things. As for getting on with people, well the only "getting on" they can manage is getting on top of the opposite sex to spawn more of the same.

Tis done Chris.

Assange On a forum that I frequent, religious type threads usually degenerate into slnging matches as well. The harshest invective generally stems from atheists towards believers. Wow. What do they sing? Would that they would confine themselves just to the art of song Yes, I find the same. Which is odd, I'd have thought fundamentalists would crawl out of their strait-jackets and join in, but perhaps I frequent the wrong forums! Slanging !!! Personally, I find it difficult to understand. As far as I'm concerned, religion is a matter for the individual. Just so long as they don't try and inflict their beliefs on me, they can believe in what God they like. I don't care. The expenditure of emotional energy that goes into some of these debates is unreal. Totally agree Mike. Life's short enough already without wasting time and effort trying to impose your beliefs on others. Live and let live.

Wenger is one of the Great Managers in Premier League (maybe even Football League) history. It is just a shame that the man has no humility or good grace in defeat. Arsenal lose and out comes the Guiness Book of Excuses, "Refs fault", "assistant refs fault", "we should have had a penalty", "we should have had 2 penalties", "their player should have been sent off", "our player shouldn't have been sent off", when asked about his player getting sent off "I didn't see the incident", when asked about the other teams player not getting sent off "Yes, it was a blatant red card" etc etc etc

If Di Matteo has any sense, he'll get out of Chelsea whilst still on a high. After all after that performance, the team isn't likely to do better next season, and the expectation will be that they should do so. Then there's the fact that football management is probably the most poisonous in the UK, with the Chelsea job up there as possibly the most toxic. Add these together and, if it was me, I'd be off to another management job in the premier league, hopefully to win something and then move again, and so on. If he stays, then I don't see him there very long, despite this last season. Good points, though now that Abramovich has got what he most wanted all along, perhaps he will be less trigger happy? (And maybe the Pope will become a Protestant ). But Di Matteo is welcome to take over at Liverpool on a temporary trial basis - maybe he'll win the league for us! With the current squad at Liverpool the only man that could win you the title was nailed to a cross nearly 2000 years ago OY!! The graffiti of old around Anfield used to read JESUS SAVES BUT DALGLISH KNOCKS IN THE REBOUND. I think City's squad and Chelsea's are pretty damn good (though Chelsea's is now ageing), as witness what they've won this season. However, I wouldn't say United's was streets ahead of ours, and Arsenal's is no better than ours, though theirs has been settled for longer. If the next manager builds on what Steve Clarke and KD began, we could do better than merely two cup finals. I look at the current crop and only see 4 players that would get into the current Newcastle team (and we are by no means title challengers). Gerrard (when fit) would probably get into any Premier League side, Johnson, Enrique (traitorous git that he is I reckon on his day there are few better in world football) and Saurez (although I think he is a poisonous little toad) who is the most gifted player you have. Other than those 4 I think they are either has beens or never will be's (the lang haired Jessie may yet prove me wrong though). City are head and shoulders above the others. Man Utd some way behind followed by Totteringham, Arsenal and Chelski. Unless there is heavy investment/retention by that group I can't see City being caught any time soon. As for Liverpool, well I think you can fight us for 6th next year

Hmm. Then why have all peoples and politicians down the ages (well, for donkeys centuries anyway) described war as a necessary 'evil' which they only engaged in a last resort? If man was so violent, war would surely be celebrated and peace decried. How do 90% of the males of the species respond to a hostile act? We are programmed with "fight or flight", most of us fight. When you argue with somebody, a heated argument, do you stay calm and peaceful? OR; Do your nostrils flare? Do your fists clench? Your blood pressure rise? We plough more into weapons than we do health, like most countries on the planet. Neolithic mans first inventions were weapons and we have continued to invent them ever since. We are, by nature, violent and if you don't agree I might just come down and stick one on you

Nah, he was born in the year 1 AD (Anno Domini, year of the Lord) BC (before Christ). He died when aged 33 in 33/34AD, simples!