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It was partly to assuage the Scots, and partly a recognition that in 1937 when they were introduced, it was symbolic of their Queen(later known as the Queen Mum) whom was born of Scottish nobility, though in England. When decimalisation came about in 1968-1971, the 5p coin came to be designed with the Scottish thistle. I am sure it would have caused much confusion had they extended this to other denominations, ie look at Belgium and it's coins issued in Walloon and French. A 1945 Scottish Shilling.

Her mother lived to 101 1/2, her Grandmother, Queen Mary made it into her late 80's in the 1950's which then was an advanced age. I want her to live long for the benefit of the monarchy, so Charles will be a caretaker monarch, ie short reign, then William can ascend the throne with Queen Kate.

I hope they get these designs out before her offspring ascends the throne, ca. 2028 or so. BTW Long Live QEII - ~ Vivat Regina! I want her to outlive her Mum, an' she just might

Well at least I can join the forum - maybe, I do have a mail.ru email though

Because this covers such a wide variety of stuff, I believe you will have to use numerous references. I have seen a Krause catalog of better known world tokens, but they are going to be more like telephone tokens etc. and not local.

I find that funny, that part of the site is in it's nascent stages of creation, and in fact I have yet to image many more notes for it, nor have I promoted it yet, but it was visited thus. Curiously I have approached the banknotes from a perspective of easy viewing on my part - since the vast majority of the collection resides in a vault that it is a particular pain to visit.

Yes, I have to link yours and the regular Predecimal.com site when I rebuild my links page, will probably do tonight or in the morrow. Revisiting the page has fired my interest in pursuing a nice Mary Ryal from 1565-1567 aka the Crookestone Dollar. I also want to complete inasmuch as is possible my monarchs collection, particularly David I and Robert I.

Scottish Coinage Took long enough, now I can finesse it.

Is it rude? I had that happen when I was re-doing my password for a university site, it kept rejecting as too close to my old pw, so then I entered in something not-so-nice and it took it

That's something else I need to sort out then...although it would save huge amounts of bandwidth. A lot of non-coin forums make you register to see images. It induces people to register that are otherwise sitting on the fence, and we know the spammers are not here for pictures anyway. Plus I like the idea of cutting down on bandwidth, because my site recently generates a lot of it.

That is how we keep them from viewing our online coin porn

Well at least they will sell well in Shop at Home networks, these are going to be genuuuwine garanteed valable coins. And some two bit dicktator in Liberia gets a cut of the profits. Great.

q That is a given. I am logged in, but the code doesn't appear either. The URL link works, but the image tags don't.

Updated 25 Oct with image tags. But the link tags seem to: This is the sale picture: And what it really looked like:

Right now image tags are not working in posts.

See below.

I have 6 of them somewhere, I need to get them out and bake them in my daughters easy bake oven and sell them for that.

I noticed this a few minutes ago, but I was able to get into Admin. Wonder if one of the spammers does this in frustration?

Children are expensive, but like this morning, my three year old daughter literally standing on top of me to sing "Itsy Bitsy Spider", worth more than gold. Not to mention that she is her own self-contained comedian, and does all day stand up comedy.

Congratulations, and enjoy the coin collection whilst it lasts, babies and children have a way of putting a dent in your hobby spending.

I am much less concerned with my carbon footprint than Princess Charles is. Thankfully I don't have to jet set to get away from Camilla for the weekend.

Unless you are insured health care anywhere is creating "medical tourism" where you fly to India or Thailand or or Mexico to have elective surgeries. I know someone that flew to Russia to have RK surgery on her eyes, it was far less expensive there, and besides they were the developers of the whole procedure anyway. Malpractice insurance expenses have practically rendered health care to be a luxury afforded by few. Whilst many in Canada travel to the USA for elective surgeries, many in the USA travel to Canada for prescription drugs, they are far cheaper in Canada than in the USA, even with insurance coverage for prescription meds.

17th century bawbees from Scotland are relatively easy to find in miserable condition, and if Charles II. Anything else, which is just William & Mary, then William II(of Scotland) are even scarcer than the silver coins. They just never struck large numbers of them, then they circulated as halfpennies in Scotland until the 1760's.

We are going into darkside OT with the discussion on the servicemen. I believe that one thing is certain, it appears as though nobody was executed for gold plating a tanner. The article cited above states that the servicemen were apparently convicted of crimes against civilians, but notice that it states "Under US Military Jurisdiction" which I read as that the US military carried out the said deed and not the English authorities. At any rate, it does some justice to the then saying that Brits uttered "Overpaid, Oversexed, and Over here". I am sure that Americans felt the same way during the Revolutionary War, and War of 1812.

RLC; Please see this: Executions in Britain until 1964 Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page. The source you site must be in another location, ie the USA or something. Actually if I recall correctly quite a few servicemen were killed for desertion on up through WWII. A nasty little secret...