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Interesting phenomenon and insight into the production methods of the time.

Don't forget the Indian mint Ah yes - wasn't polo invented in India?

It wasn't Edward's reference apparently - the Challis article says it was a 'marginal note written by ... William Cecil'. It's beyond doubt though, that the Edward VI coins of 1551 are the first dated coins in Britain. I have seen a rare form of playing card where the spade symbol is upper left with a quite large 3 to its right. Then on the bulk of the surface there are a number of spade symbols all connected and overlaid by a large 3. Whether this type was used in Edward's time, I have no idea. What's certain is that medieval playing cards had a different form than what we now have.

depends whether it's incuse or raised - to my eyes it looked incuse at first but I admit it could be seen either way. I don't have the coin to hand but I'm fairly sure, from memory, that the 'Arabic' 1 is raised. No, I was talking to scott about the die crack/scratch!!!

depends whether it's incuse or raised - to my eyes it looked incuse at first but I admit it could be seen either way.

I don't remember the Mini being mocked? It was lauded on first appearance and after winning a few serious rallies, it never looked back.

Good to know your interests extend back to the pre-Dec-imal era (see what I did there? )

Happy birthday Declan - I won't say "break a leg" for your jump, but "good luck" instead.

Yay, happy birthday old bean

It's true that gold doesn't seem too well represented here, I'm not sure why, though there are gold collectors among them thar members . It's probably a generalisation but nevertheless true, that there aren't as many varieties among things such as sovereigns as there are with other metals / denominations. For another thing, gold attracts as many bullion investors as true collectors, which may be another reason. But there's nothing wrong with collecting sovereigns, now your interest has been piqued! The good thing - apart from the price of gold - is that you can pick up a whole load of commoner dates for little more than bullion value, especially 20th Century, and lower grade Victoria. We'll always give advice, even on metals we don't collect personally, because if we don't know the answers ourselves, "we know a man who does"! (Not the same man, I hasten to add...)

It looks like they are just plays on the word MINI. I don't get the first one though. Has it anything to do with the General Election? Or maybe the World Cup? (Both around that time). Whatever, I don't see what it's got to do with coins!

A gunshot from a grassy knoll, aliens landing at Roswell, astronauts faking moon landings, and the evil hand of George W Bush behind 9/11

It would be worth it for that particular one, I feel.

Unlike the BBC bias Peck? The Beeb ain't perfect, not by a long chalk, but I'll believe them over some FB chancer any day of the week.

That's an extremely attractive French medal - what's on the other side?

Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. But where do they get the "50 pounds" from in the description?

Good old Facebook - such a reliable source of 'news', eh?

Hmm. I wonder if the Mint would be interested in buying in sets of these coins? I could supply them for ... let's say a modest fiver per set. Which, multiplied by the contents of my junk tins, works out at a pretty penny. Notice how the penny theme was quickly abandoned when it came to showing us the portraits of the current Queen?

If it's Nicholson 190 then it's hardly "unrecorded" Nicholson sale item 190.. says unrecorded any difference in details like numeral positions means its another dye. Yeah, but that was when it was being catalogued. Now it's been part of the Nicholson sale, it IS recorded!

The MPs will have completely forgotten about it all by the end of next week. As they say "seven days is a long time in politics". Looking at that spending per head it's the East and South East, both adjacent to London, who are the hard done by. On the few occasions I've visted the Up North everything looks a lot better than where I live, the food, housing, transport, petrol and beer are all cheaper. I guess we don't moan enough about how we get such a hard time. As they say it's the squeaky hinge that get the oil. Yes, but you forget that those 'per head' figures include how much is spent paying out unemployment benefit , council tax, housing benefit etc, plus the extra NHS costs involved in being poor as opposed to stinking rich with BUPA insurance etc etc. The lower SE figures prove my point - if you're raking it in, you don't need so much State help.

Ha! Don't know when that map was drawn? In Alfred's time, London was part of Mercia!

Go to the Beginners Forum, and there's a pinned topic about how to reduce picture size to upload it here. You're lucky - when it was written, the file size limit was 150k.

Ha! Even if there was one, it would be a bunch of fat cat South-Easterners lording it over the North ... 'twas ever thus. Funny how ever since the Tudors, there hasn't been a single ruler or elected body that gave a tinker's fig about people who live north of Cannock Chase.

The price reflects the expenditure incurred on sun-tan lotion. Easy when you know. Probably hoping for an American to say it's the finest rainbow toned version known