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I thought that but then there's nothing humourous in the description. Weirdo

They obviously changed their mind about listing it

It wouldn't have reflected like that if it wasn't full lustre

It could obviously be a trial for copper 10 pences instead of the silver ones.

..and if you see a 2+A 1953 Farthing sold buy anyone who trades online, reserve it for me!

Wow triple posting! hehe Anyway, there will be allsorts there I would imagine - some in high, some in low grades. A whole strata of coins, one might say.

Nice! I'm gonna have a spend on some dealers soon with a view to getting half-way to my goal by July and fully completing it by December. It should be fairly easy; it's not that the coins aren't there, it's that the money isn't!

Jiffy wasn't it?! Or was it Jif or Cif - i cn't remember all these cleaning product cat names!

They're cool Sylvester (or should I call you Sylvestius!?) and it does work for non-members. You relly have go on quite a spending spree!

They're Greek - a simple google would have shown you that. Anyone with a Krause can value them but they won't be worth much. Btw, get cool wallpaper. I have this stuff made by a german company which is textured crocodile skin. It gets rave reviews from everyone but it was expensive *cough* £25 per roll *cough* *cough*

Erm looks like it in the picture

I thought that they were all given to buildings, like churches and cathedrals, to put in their foundations?! Ah yes I'm right - there's an informative article on it here. Plus there's this from another site - "Three of the 1933 pennies were known to have been placed under foundation stones of buildings. One is a building belonging to The University of London in Bloomsbury, two others were under churches in the Ripon diocese in Yorkshire. In September 1970, the Church of St. Cross at Middleton near Leeds was damaged by thieves who managed to remove and steal the 1933 penny buried under its cornerstone. As a precaution, the other church removed its coin, and sold it by auction at Sotheby's on the 24th November 1972. Over the years we have been coin dealers we have had many people tell us about 1933 pennies they have found. Most of these turn out to be Australian, British West Africa, Jersey, or Irish pennies, and their owners, usually victims of their own wishful thinking, omit to mention the fact that they are not British pennies."

Chris will be p****d at you they take up a huge amount of room.

I thought that but I put it down to the EF grade.

Purely for that reason - it is not worth too much. If one faked a Una and the Lion, it would be too "hot" to sell thereby defeating the point of counterfeiting it. The same reason goes for modern banknote counterfeiters; they fake £10 and £20 notes to avoid attracting attention and scrutiny as they would with the £50 note. By manufacturing smaller, less valuable denominations, one can sell more of them and sell them more discreetly. I think the coin looks ok - he's sold many before to satisfied customers looking at his feedback.

Gorgeous coin, Tom! Have you got any more lined up for purchase? No, do it in Photo Editor; Bitmaps take up far too much space and I don't think you can actually upload them to these boards. With PE, it makes them into .jpegs.

Congratulations, Sylvester - Lord knows you deserve it! And remember, Chris, I arrived only a few month after Sylvester

I think you're mixing that up with her stamps which are generally agreed to be the best in the World. Her collection belongs to her however, not the State. Btw, spiffing coins Sylvester!

They would not attack a Coin fair AS I SAID because it is too low profile.

These statements are inherently wrong. There are soldiers in Heathrow airport on guard for terrorist activity. Only a short while ago, bin Laden proclaimed that plans were being made to attack target in the West. Six people have been arrested in London when traces of the lethal toxin Ricin were found. The Metropolitan Police Comissioner has said that an attack on London is "inevitable" akin to the speech given by Mayor Ken Livingston who said that it would be "miraculous" if London was not attacked. To say there is not going to be an attack on London, even for the forseeable future, is folly.

Definitely not! By not going to this Coin Fair because of a terrorist threat, they have basically won. Stand up to them, and keep your routine the same like the Londoner did in the Blitz. Did Nazi incendiaries keep them from going to the cinemas? No! Did the blackouts stop them from going to see friends? No!

I've only bought Farthing off Cooke and nearly all of them have been under or at catalogue value. Only one of the ten or so I've bought have been over the value listed in Spink's.

There is no terrorist risk to a Coin faiar in London. No intelligent (not that many of them are) terrorist would attack it when he/she could attack somewhere which would gain huge publicity e.g Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square, Picadilly Circus etc.

A talking piece perhaps? That's all it's good for after all!

I've seen odd auctions for £1 supposedly held by "famous" (and I use the term loosely) people like those off the set of Eastenders. There was no COA with it so it could have been from anywhere: still people bid! It went for over £40!