1949threepence

That's more like it !!!

It's really irritating if you want to look at the date. No use contacting them, though. Be like communicating with a moron. It's a bit like those reduced price stickers slapped over the barcode on a supermarket product.

Talking about that 1952 penny, I just found an interesting snippet from the November 2018 Coin News. Can't copy and paste from it, but here is a screenshot:- No, can't do a screenshot as it's too big. Here is a photo instead:-

If you define "current" as the upcoming month as opposed to the present one, then yes.

It's the April issue Chris. When I saw the first few lines of your post above, I thought you were about to say you'd be in town on Friday to sign your article for buyers

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I don't think that's the case at all. Many respondents on forums will split the quote in a long post, into a series of smaller quotes, so they can address the various points individually. I've done the same myself on other forums. The problem on this forum is that the entire quote is boxed. So you have to go into the quote itself to respond to the separate points individually. Hence Chris was making his response in a different colour to distinguish between quote and response.

That's looking suspiciously like a 164A - very neat capture, Jon. Well played that man. Better than average specimen as well

No great loss either.

The question is now stark. What happens next? Parliament is paralysed, but life and events are not. They will carry on regardless. We have to end up somewhere even if parliament is incapable of deciding. Will it ultimately be exit on WTO terms, be that 29th March or 30th June? As far as Mrs May's address to the nation, I think she expresses the frustration of so many people with this ongoing paralysis - parliament contemplating its navel as she said yesterday.

I noticed that idiot Wishart asking "when will she develop a backbone", and calling her "weak, weak , weak". She's actually anything but weak.

That woman has my maximum respect. I don't think anybody could have given more effort, or taken more hostility and abuse than she has, in her efforts to deliver the will of the people. I mean, let's be honest, the vast majority of individuals would have long since folded against such an onslaught.

You're probably right, but it wouldn't do any harm to test the waters - always assuming there's anybody there who has the remotest clue as to how to follow up on actually answering the question in a meaningful way. I tell a lie - link

Now the EU have advised that they will grant an extension if it looks like MP's will support the deal.

Indeed - and I think it's disappeared rather than moved.

Also, not wishing to be pedantic, but it's actually the first N of penny.

I wish I'd asked about the 1952 when I made a Freedom of Information Request in 2011. Joseph Payne, the then Assistant Curator, said with regard to the 1954, that he was unable to say for certain whether only one had survived from a trial run of several hundred (the rest of which were presumably melted down). That post is here Unfortunately, I don't think he's there any more. He supplied a very cogent reply within a few days. The last two I've sent weren't replied to for several weeks and were pretty awful - the respondents clearly didn't have a clue how to answer my questions.

Although I think Stu may have been wondering whether the coin had been certified as authentic by the Royal Mint. As am I. Just seems odd that one 1952 would be minted. Maybe a batch were produced and then melted down because it was realised they weren't needed or authorised. But for whatever reason one survived. Like the 1954 there seems to be very little traceable back history. Or in the case if the 1954, big gaps.

Problem being that only one completist can have it.

That was the very word I used, Jon, when he delivered the cabinet yesterday afternoon "chuffed to bits with it".

Excellent point.

Pure quality. I would 100% recommend him - and he's not as expensive as the people who took over from Peter Nichols. He's not quick. I ordered my cabinet on 12th January, so it took him over 2 months. But well worth the wait.

Probably a lot of then weren't even born at the time, and are just spouting unthought out rubbish without ever checking the facts from the time. If they were old enough to have been there at the time, there's even less excuse for not remembering - for example - the 1973 oil price hike.