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Of course there is that particular blowhard over in America who is writhing in delight as he hopes the "anti-establishment" will propel him to the helm in his bid to dissolve NATO, the EU and cozy up to Pootie Poot. And to think, he can authorise nuclear strikes and other sundry military actions.

Indeed. It even has a portrait of a ubiquitous rat. What I enjoy the most about 17th century tokens is that many of them are very personal to the issuer - unlike many later tokens that were issued by municipalities, workhouses etc.

I collect 17th century tokens with a focus on unusual issuers ie the one token I have is the only known issuer whose profession was a rat catcher, but also collect tokens issued by women. I really don't have a focus on particular locales.

With all due respects, your worries should not be concerned with the EU vote, but rather the farcical election in the USA come November. No matter who wins, I predict a fool will be the winner. And the country and the world are shafted.

It equaled 11 Merks, a unit of accounting in Scotland - with all the recoining going on at the time it was quickly obsolete and whilst not many were minted in the first place the most of them were melted down.

Some would suggest that plastic and coin don't mix - me being one.

Money and coinage in it's many iterations changed oft during the reign of James VI, this is a noble from 1588, by then the coin in use in England had long evolved into a new denomination with a portrait of the monarch whilst in Scotland the archaic remained. To further complicate matters there were multiple coins referred to as a noble - issued in the same year! The other, smaller, noble was tariffed at 75/- whilst this larger example tariffed at 146/8 - it was strictly a one year type and is very rare.

I do remember some of his mid-1970s fights, as usual he fought as much with his well chosen deprecatory statements as he did with his fists. And that was what made Ali remarkable, he practiced what he preached. He was a great human being and I will remember his quotes forever. "Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee"

Edward III Noble from the brief Treaty Period in the 1360s when England and France were at peace and Edward III was not claiming the French throne, thus no French titles on the coin. One I have owned a few years and will likely enjoy only shortly longer as these treasures will be sacrificed to pay for the ankle biters college fund.

But I am saying that Britain has more in common with her former colonies what with shared values of democracy, tradition etc. as opposed to being a part of the EU. But the next war is indeed on the horizon, and there will be a lot of surprises - look at some of what is going on in some of the "new" democracies in E. Europe. Some countries like Hungary and Poland have experienced a backlash vs. the EU and even NATO lately. What was unthinkable 10-15 years ago, vis a vis favouring Russia's ambitions are becoming much more the norm. Whilst Germany and France now have a 60+ year alliance with few cracks, some other countries are not quite so onboard with such alliances.

Britain does have quite a bit more in common with her transatlantic partners, Canada and the USA, than she does with continental Europe. Think about it, beginning especially in the 18th century industrialism and manufacturing took off at an unprecedented pace in Britain whilst the rest of Europe wallowed in a miserably serf-like existence. The USA, Canada and Great Britain have a long history, not always perfect - but we have a lot more in common in values than say Britain has with that country across the channel.

For awhile while Ukraine was dismembering itself some wise head in Donets'k proposed that Donets'k secede from Ukraine and declare itself part of the UK since it was founded by John Hughes, a Welshman in the 19th century. I might propose a trade, Britain gets Donets'k and Ukraine, or whatever crumbs are left of it gets Edinburgh - or whatever is left of it. I might bring that up with the powers that be in the DPR, since Russia is not always the most trustworthy of allies of late.

I'd sure love to study that hoard

Book was an amazing read, and a stark reminder that people do not make war, governments, fools and armaments companies do.

At the rate they convert to decimal it would be a better option to sell them in bulk as older coin to a collector. I have some £90 worth of predecimal myself and it just sits in jugs although I did sift out the pre-1947 silver awhile back as I may sell it.

No gloves on those grimy paws - and depositing body oils on a £50K coin!

King Charles III will likely only have a single portrait.

Mary Gillick, primarily because I rather do like finding those portraits in my change - ie Canada cents and five cent coins and occasionally even a spare silver 10c coin.

The coins referred to as having been stolen were from the Lord Stewartby collection. As for a Malcolm IV penny, I'd really like to see an image of that - even in catalogues they are rather skint.

I'd really like a design with Britannia stoshing her trident into a terrorist.

I've seen some of his offerings, he's expensive in my opinion and his coins all seem to have a similar tone There is always something disconcerting about coins having similar tones - like cleaned and baked.

The Beeb ain't perfect, but it is one heck of a lot less biased than CNN, RT, Fox etc.

I'd sell you one of each, ie the five monarchs for a quid.

If Alex Salmond was Viktor Yanukovych getting them to "vote" wouldn't have been a problem. In fact lots of dead people voted in the 2004 election. At least Scotland had a real election with very little if any tampering. I cannot ever expect that in Ukraine.