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Actually if I have to have a Rolls Royce, I want the Merlin - in the P-51 Mustang The Rolls Royce of Aviation.

Oh so very rare here indeed, I must have the one and only one in my whole region: A '73 Jensen Interceptor. When I was a wee nipper, my Gram went and purchased a 1974 MGB convertible, it was almost as though she went through her second childhood when she turned 50. She drove the car lightly, and kept it until 1978 only putting 5.000 miles on it. I still lament heartily that she sold that car before my clutches could grasp it. The only weakness with the Morris was the famously lousy electrical cabling, which was thoroughly replaced due to chafing and shorts.

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Fascinating little(15mm) token issued by William Warwick of Gloucester for his tavern in Gloucester. I love the raven image, very cute. This token was issued in 1650, and the Raven Tavern was known to still be thriving as late as 1675.

I have noticed it, because I am a buyer from mainly overseas eBay sites and rarely only USA sites. It just comes down to the stuff I collect and want is on eBay.co.uk or ebay.es. All of my last several purchases have come from the UK site, the Spanish site, or the French site. I have recently found it easier to not even bother with the USA main eBay.com site because it is a waste of time.

The US government is not going to eliminate any gold to stimulate the economy. If anything they are more likely to seize gold again like they did in 1933 and make gold ownership illegal once more.

I know someone who posts over on Rec.collecting.coins that has a very very similar seat on his commode. My wife would kill me before she let me put that on our toilet.

That is an awesome site, with particular attention to recording where the coins were located when found etc. I think the most curious thing for me to see is how many Scots coins seemed to have been found in Northern England, even in Yorkshire etc, proving that despite official edicts prohibiting their circulation they seemed to have been accepted in commerce, especially in the 17th century.

Moved to Free for All, where we have our Ebay eccentricities section:)

Actually in the USA a well known British specialist is Allan Davisson, he briefly owned the gold Coenwulf penny. Right now I cannot find his website though, apparently it has been taken down - they are not big on the internet thing.

I can smell it as a fake through the computer screen. This thing is cast, and poorly at that. Some bidiot got taken big time.

I hae many Scots bobs from 1959 sitting in the bags with the rest of them. Even the '53 Pennies sit in bags with their brethren, they are just not that rare Only the '53 Bobbers get special places, 'cause there are only 40.000 of them not a million of them. BTW I hae a problem with Coin Yearbook unduly referring to 1707-2006 coins as "English coins" remember they are British now, not Cornish, Watfordian, Liverpudlian and unfortunately nae Scottish.

Based solely on the image and the suggestion of a date in the lower portion of the reverse it has to be a Conder token from the mid 1790's. This appears as though it could possibly be from the Spence political series of tokens, in that condition with harsh cleansing it is worth only about 10p or so though.

Did you make a transition from Scottyland to the Channel Isles?

Early 19th century counter or game piece, essentially a token for playing poker etc. Most likely ca. 1810-1825 or so.

Has to be a evasion piece, with English legends and the bust of George II which was likely used much later than his reign, ie probably ca. 1780's or so.

I concur with your opin.

As W&M's go this is a nice piece.

Why cannot they send their 24 yr old attractive female courier with it?

I have never heard of coins being struck on leather before, but have heard of US Civil War tokens being struck on leather, vulcanized rubber etc. This piece must have been for novelty purposes.

Why would anyone take exception to the above statement? It is from the Bible, and most of us know of it from our dreary hours whilst languishing in the forlorn Sunday School gatherings. Funny how parents made most of us in that class go, but they got to stay home. One of those things you figure out when you are married and have kids, lets send the kiddies to Sunday school and we will pick them up when they are done

If Northern Ireland were excluded, I rather believe such an issue would be harmonious to most. Even those raballious Scots

I am sure that peacekeepers in some sense will be there in 2070 also. And curiously enough the King of Afghanistan back then is still around today and a minor player in the current political situation. I doubt he will be around in 70 years though.

Actually Theodore Roosevelt was a very religious individual, and as such, he believed that the Deity was lessened by having "God" on money. There is an old saying, "Money is the root of all evil". When the first St. Gaudens $20 pieces were released in 1907, they did NOT have "In God We Trust" on them, and this is largely believed to be because of TR's intercession with the designer of the coins, Augustus St. Gaudens. However the public as a whole objected, and the motto was later placed on the coins. It is a curious irony that atheists and the religious can both object to the placement of the motto "In God We Trust" on coins, but they do, albeit for differing reasons.

Maybe you don't, and that is okay. Right now there are nuts complaining that the US mint and the Bush administration have instigated a plot to take God off of the money, they have completely missed that the mint made the so called "Godless" coins in error, and that it was not by design. Even if they can find God on the edge, that is not good enough, because God was removed from the face of the coin. Frankly I am with Theodore Roosevelt, God does not belong on money. And quite frankly that is the vain with which I wrote the post above which you have taken issue with.