copper123

Watching bemused as the revelations in the press on the undated 20p and the low mintage rare kew gardens 50p i wonder did these announcements in the press always follow the same formula , say back in the mid sixties ie, press announces to the public that 1949 and 1946 threepence coins are rare , hysteria among the general public follows with frantic change checking , leading to there being none of the coins in circulation in three months time. i surpose there are a few old timers out there who might remember but i am a little too young (thank god for that really , i feel ancient!)

i think it is a miracle it has been identified as a penny

I remember in the betting for a name for prince George , "Bradley" was a 100/1 shot , prob. after Bradley wiggins

wasn't he the one born of victoria , queen victorias oldest ofspring who started the first world war - a very bad man - also many believe the reporations from the first world war caused the second so in the end he was responsable for quite a few european deaths . i do belive he retired in exile and live to a good old age as well - there is never any real justice is there?

name always change you just look at the names of the roman emperors in the first second and third and fourth centuries they were changing pretty rapid back then . look at the popular names 100 yrs ago and compare them to now heeps of difference . I would emagine in another 100 years exactly the same thing will happen again. in other words savanah , sky, peaches fifi trixabell or chantel will have died out and newer ones will have arived instead

you have bits and pieces of EVERYTHING scott

if its unc its more like 10 euros EF is about 3 euros

worth about £7 i would say

I am not blaming scotland for anything , is there really a point complaining about the poor state of the roads when there is a darn mountain in the way wherever you want to put a road . One of the main reasons that the roads are in a state is because half of you lot deserted the place in the early sixties and the seventies 'cause there was so few jobs- those that didn't leave were either pensioners or unemployed (remember rab c ) You could buy a cottage in scotland for £100 in the late sixties it would be worth £300,000 now a a stockbrokers weekend retreat

yes i pay for prescriptions, mine are not free - last one was 2 years ago but i am now entering the time where i might need more and more of them (ie my mid fifties) i have paid dozens of times over the last 30 year and never moaned about it

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