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King Alexander IV?

That dorf should go work for RBS or Northern Rock.

Deliberate innuendo.

I suppose Mel Gibson is now a historical figure - it seems ages since he made a film It has been ages since he has been mentally competent enough to complete a film. Curiously enough he doesn't live but a few hundred metres from Britney Spears and Justin Bieber. Must be something in the water.

Only a fool would spend something he paid more than 20 quid for for a mere 20 quid. What about a credit or debit card?

I am thinking that a portrait should be of a hystorical figger:

Nah, it is rather a more accurate representation of a then 83 year old monarch.

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Good one HC

I stopped selling on eBay back in 2008 and haven't looked back. I don't know why someone would bother with it. As a buyer I tend to look for sellers that will deal off eBay so I can shave off an automatic 12% off the price.

To narrow down what the intended coin was you would have to get an accurate weight of the piece and find out what the BRM was striking at that time.

I think you will find we are a constitutional monarchy that pretends to be a democracy We have a constitution? The Magna Carta is about as close as your going to likely get.

Ah gash, you forgot hardheads, turners an' hatpieces.

It wasn't a theft, rather it was a "repatriation" of state property of the USSR.

I collect 17th century tokens myself.

I wonder if whence I have croaked and am pushing up weeds they will auction my hoard as "property of a gentleman" ?

Much better selling it through CWTS as opposed to eBay. I don't even look at eBay most of the time anymore. Here is where I look at CWT: http://www.civilwartokens.com/

The great thing about Civil War tokens is there is a lot of variety. You can even find them with warships, guns etc. I bought one a couple of years ago that is very rare and was dug up in a local church's vegetable garden where it was likely lost soon after it was circulated in 1863.

The only redeeming thing with cents in the USA is I can buy up bags and boxes of rolls at the bank and search through them and find old fogies like the 1874 and 1890 that I found last month. In the past few years I have found a couple of dozen cents that were older than 100 years old.

Five quid was a decent amount of dosh then. The design wasn't carried on to the smaller note, by then BoE decided to put HRH on the fiver - which really was a shame. British banks, particularly those in England had a tradition of sorts of NOT having a portrait or even cipher of the monarch on notes as a bit of a superstition - a couple of Scottish banks didn't follow such beliefs - and failed spectacularly - City of Glasgow bank was one in 1878 that had had small portraits of Queen Victoria on their notes. A similar pattern followed in British North America - the banks like Westmoreland Bank that had portraits of Queen Victoria bought the farm - the only exception to the rule was Bank of Toronto which kept portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their notes into the late 1930s.

The Lion and Key is a classic English note: And a lovely Britannia:

For the paste 40+ years England has done a wonderful job of printing notes with references to non-political historical figures. I'd like to get this note sometime.

Good luck - if I saw it in front of me and could rotate the coin I might be able to determine the markers for the different types. Kind of looks like farmland find materiel that got chunked into a rotovator.

A bit like the Irish punt, was worth about 90p but you only ever got 1:1 if you spent an English pound over there. There was a brief stint ca. 1975-7 when the Irish currency was actually worth a bit more than a British quid. It was so unusual that it made the news in all rounds.