Emperor Oli

Well it doesn't really matter how clean they are, although that obviously plays a part, it matters more how worn the coins are. If you could either attach pictures (register first) or find picture hosting on the web, we can accurately grade them for you. If we take the condition of them as very fine, the penny is worth around 50p and the florin around £4. The half crown, if in the same condition won't be worth much as it is very common. I'm not an American man myself so you'll have to wait until a yank arrives or somebody with a copy of Krause (World coin catalogue) gets here. Hope I've been of help!

Expect around £10 if most detail is clearly visible.

I think Chris explicitly states if they have lustre. This would have been more appropriate as a pm, to answer your question.

Yeah I'm sure it's a misstrike People change numbers in some penny, I can't remember the exact date, so that it resembles a 1933 penny. It could be 1937 I can't remember.

Because I cannot see the bidding increase 15-fold in four days

I can't see it going past £400 really. It should go for round about £700 but I can't see it happening.

Probably a robbery because we have tons of authentic 17th century highwaymen around these parts

I've found old Post Office bags at the side of roads before. They scrub up quite nicely but I have no idea what to do with them!

Woooo I win (along with Sylvester, of course!)

It looks a bit iffy - I think he's right to play it safe. Something about the jewellery on the bust doesn't ring true with a coin that is purporting to be in that condition. It should be much sharper imho.

I've put them on my watch list. It will be interesting to see how much they go for - someone's gonna get quite a bargain if they're all the same condition as the ones shown in the pictures. The bag's pretty nice as well

List 49 a copper colour? Mine's light blue!

I received his Farthing list 49 a week ago and if you pick it up with wet or sweaty hands, the ink runs and smudges on it. I think it's the new card he's using - it's kinda luminescent! I don't know whether his standard catalogue is like that but the farthing list certainly is!

I had a 10p a while ago but I haven't had many 2004 issues. I hardly ever see the commems anyway, apart from the public libraries 50p, which seem to proliferate everywhere.

Right Conservative. HPJ, you're a CENTRIST

Spend it, no collector will buy it!

Not worth anything. People find prices in either books or from experience!

That's what you call it, is it?

If we can get Europe to work for us, as it is doing magnificently for the French and Germans, it would be a huge boon to Britain. That's what the Tories want to do if they get into power - "tough negitiation" is their line and it's worked before, so it can work again. Oh and HPJ, MEP's have no power whatsoever so they can't tell you what to do even if they wanted to.

Coppers is slang

Whenever you need another piece of silver mine's top of the list!

Splendid! Page nine seems a bit sparse though! Oh, I liked the little bit at the end "changed the shape" - very funny

Conservatives Not Lib Dems if they were the last party on Earth. A drunk, ill leader? Hardly the model PM, is he? The Conservatives will also scrap University Fees. The Lib Dems want to change our voting system from the traditional "First past the Post" to Proportional Representation because they can't be the ruling party any other way. PR doesn't work (look at the Weimar Republic!) and they are fools for thinking that it will

I lean more towards privatisation because it takes the burden of running the concerns off the government but then again, as you say, quite a few companies are unethical i.e they don't respect the views/concerns of their very customers. Of course everyone should have equal opportunities but I also agree titles, "family status" etc, if that can be seen an un-contradictory. Those families worked hard to get where they did, the titled ones I mean and they deserve to be rewarded. Most of the titled families are very benevolent and give a lot to charities and their local communities, plus some provide housing to people who live on their estates, if they have them. Everybody did/does have an equal chance of getting land at the start, it's just that the people who got the land established themselves and have therefore been rooted in society from the beginning. I'm dead against communism because it doesn't reward merit or personal achievment. The people who say "Well, Communism looks good on paper" are also inherently wrong. Communism forces people to be just like everyone else, drones if you will, eroding all sense of identity. For all it's ill, at least the modern democracy which we know today grants its people the opportunity to be unique. Just to twist your voting point a bit, I would like to see how proportional represenation worked in this country, maybe in a trial somewhere like Scotland. It gives the government more representative strata of British society, and their political views but then the problem is establishing a parliamentary majority, unless they enter into a coalition. The thing about the "moral code" is that it changes dynamically with the passing years. Something like sex before marriage, which would have outraged people a century ago, does not even get an eyelid batted to it. So then one has the problem of defining the morals for this generation. I support the policy of zero-tolerance policing, something that is practiced in Japan and which Mayor Giuliani introduced in New York. Both places saw a dramatic drop in crime and consequently a rise in quality of life. Reinstating corporal punishment would also be a good idea, as a visual deterrent in every town and city against crime. Like Sylvester, I would also like capital punishment to be reintroduced. For every one murderer executed, it is predicted that eighteen further murders are prevented. Surely this is good enough to merit its return? However, we then have the problem of executing the wrong people or executing them for the wrong reasons, like Ruth Ellis who shot and killed her b*****d boyfriend in a crowded London pub. I vehemently oppose the legalisation of drugs. It would present an immense burden to the NHS which would not (as reports have shown) be recouped through taxation of the drugs. The people who are high on drugs can also cause untold damage to buildings and people. Not only does this cost money, it costs live too, the drug user's and the person who is being attacked/assaulted/whatever. Thousands of lives would be affected by drug-related accidents or deaths resulting in time being taken off work (for funerals, not to mention the staff lost to drug-related deaths) giving a net decrease in profits and therefore taxes and consequently a lower standard of life. That's my little rant over

Looks like my 5f is out then....