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You would have to ask the french - no doubt he or she would have gone there

If i remember rightly the only reason that scotland ever joined up in the union with england was because they practically bankcupted scotland on a stupid venture to south america. it's politicians are not money wizards then are they? The reasoning behind the union was that at least together the UK was worth something even if one was totally broke.

It is clear to me that hot air is the main produce from the natives. Try selling it to your "friends" the french. Fair weather friends that is - friends that dissapear when there is a job to do or enemy to be fought

While Scotland itself has produced a massive amount of oil which England (or westminster if you like) has depended the honest truth is scotland is a very expensive county to run , its transport system is in poor condition and cost many times what the transport system in England costs while being used by very few people (The only really busy roads i have ever been on in scotland are between edinburgh and glasgow and the motorway to Glasgow. The health system is also plagued by the same problems . That was the reason i said Westminster would not be bothered we might have raped the country for the last thirty years but the darn place certainly added a large amount to the national debt between 1707 and 1968. Will they be offering to take their share i wonder or will that salmon turn into a slippery customer

England on its own is not really bothered about scottish independance. it has plundered most of their oil and gas and can now depend on fracking in the outbacks of yorkshire and lancashire to pay the bills in westminster

yes seen several forgeries with the wrong edge but never a genuine coin . odds are stacked in favour of a few being out there though

worth a few bob!

I have tried to spend a couple of the old two pound coins - the ones before 1997 and have been practically called a forger and told that the police would be called on me.

unfortunately these coins are easy to fake as well so they will never be expensive i have a few decimal examples from the seventies they would only fetch twenty times face at the best

looks like thessalonica mint (Greece) to me

looks like a fake - but i would have to say for sure buy having it in hand

With the rather surpriseing news of the death of the pound coin , another question came into my head With all the mistakes the royal mint has been doing over the last few years , has anyone found a pound coin with the wrong edge on , say an English shield with a welsh edge Surely with the number of coins produced of many different types there is a pound coin with the wrong edge somewhere , well plenty forgeries have the wrong edge , but how about a genuine one ? Chris have you ever seen one?

We are very lucky indeed to have this fair in the north - it would have been so easy for everything to just move to london

Magpies like coin collecting? Which reigns to they prefer or is it just dipped coins they like?

Think she needs locking in a cupboard as well the annoying cow - or was that nursie

I have a nice liverpool halfpenny with a sailing ship on it its in great grade too

at least three were far sighted successes one was a plaything of the rich and cost the taxpayer a fortune and the jury is out on the last

Introduced by tony benn 1. British stamp design. As Postmaster General from 1964-6, the republican Benn wanted to permit the introduction of "non-traditional" designs - of landscapes, portraits of composers and so on - without the Queen's head, but he faced resistance from Buckingham Palace. The compromise that resulted from his campaign - a small cameo silhouette in the corner of pictorial stamps - can still be seen to this day. 2. The postcode system. Since the late 1950s, the Post Office had been trialling a method of six-digit alphanumeric codes to sort mail in the Norwich area. In October 1965, under Benn's watch as Postmaster General, the Post Office announced it would extend the system to the rest of the country. Benn also oversaw the opening of the Post Office Tower, now the BT Tower. 3. BBC Radio 1. Benn introduced the 1967 Marine Broadcasting Offences Act that closed down the pirate radio stations which were transmitting offshore around the coast of Britain. The legislation made it almost impossible for the likes of Radio Caroline to keep going and paved the way for the launch of Radio 1 in September of the same year. 4. E in Concorde. As minister of technology from 1966-70, Benn was responsible for the development of the Anglo-French supersonic airliner. Others can take credit for designing and building it, but Benn successfully resisted Treasury efforts to cancel it because of spiralling costs. He also restored the letter "e" to the project's name, which had been removed by former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan after a falling out with Charles de Gaulle. "E stands for excellence, for England, for Europe and for the entente cordiale," Benn said. 5. The rucksack with a built-in seat. Long a keen amateur inventor - he bolted a chair onto the roof of a car for his 1970 election campaign - Benn proudly showed off his creation, the "frontbencher", at the age of 83. "I was carrying around a stool and a rucksack and thought it would better if I put them together," he said. Less successful than his other innovations, he offered Sir Richard Branson the opportunity to manufacture it, but the tycoon turned him down.

A knife in one hand and a thingy in a plastic bag in the other - CAUGHT RED HANDED LITERALLY.

With a knife?

My thingy is shaped like a thingy and not a turnip - well that's my opinion anyway.LOL By the way did anyone see that news story about the guy being found by the side of a road with his thingy removed- wwwioooo nasty

I like that, "change England for the better changing fro a rural wool based economy to one driven by inventors and chancers." and now the invertors have gone we are left with just the chances. Invertors? like upside down people LOL

17th cent tokens are very expensive now i remember back in the seventies they used to be quite cheap but are a very specialist area now with many rarities

Is the london coin company anything to do with the london mint office or any of their other rip off promotion sites?

Yep i had a long weekend break last weekend and was quite pleased to see many lambs out there. I think i saw a red kite feeding on a placenta in a field as well - not a pleasant site.