Gary1000

It all depends - as they say - on the variety! Tell you what, if I find all 4 varieties of 1937 penny I'll swap you for a 1922 with 1927 reverse.. That sound like a fair swap

In my wife's culture names like Bambi and Princess for girls with Rolex for boys plus many more that we would consider odd that I can't think of at the moment are very common. My son was very nearly called Ariel after his Grandad but Ronald was eventually settled for. There's an old name for you.

Note to self. No more collecting varieties as it is no longer socially acceptable.

No, the most boring by far concerns the 1937 penny reverse. There's two MICRO-MICRO varieties, which have something to do with whether the exergue line crosses through a tooth or not. Both are equally common, and I've never even looked to see which mine is, or the proof, as I JUST DON'T CARE I not heard of the exergue example. The pointing of the P in PENNY is the usual way, P to tooth and P to gap. There's two obverse as well.

As I have specialised in 20th centry predecimal I have the full date run of farthings, Half pennies and pennies. Most varieties included.

Apart from EII

Michael Freeman puts an occasional item on eBay, but is not a big seller there. I bought a Farthing Mule off of him on eBay, but it was quite a while ago. Peter Davies also puts in a show occasionally. He has bought a couple of bit from me. I can see the ticket now. Dadds 13/6/10 ebay £4.25.

Hahaha Hahaha Sounds like a 5p blank got mixed up with the 10ps and was struck as such. You're probably looking at £5-10. That sound a bit optimistic. Ebay seems to get very under excited about errors.

I bought through ebay in the US a 1956 1/2d in red, the rarest variety for about $11. All the boxes were ticked but not wanting to alert the seller I didn't ask for insured delivery. Of course nothing arrived and within 30 mins of my asking for conformation of postage I had a refund. I think what happens is that someone else may have spotted it and contacted the seller with an offer before they had posted the coin.

Without proof of postage the very quick offer of a refurn smell very fishy.

rumpUK - i.e. what's left after Scotland departs. Don't you mean England, as Wales is a principality and NI is a province. So England is the only bit left with Country status.

Yes it has happened to me, but I get mine free.

Politisions are politisions because of their own self inerests. Don't think because the politisions for their own self interests are panicing and want the UK to stay whole that the people give a hoot. If Scotland really want to seperate, the English should be given a vote. Turnout would be very low but it would be a land slide result.

I like to think that the average Englishman doesn't give a tinkers dam either way, I know I don't. I was hoping that I could just sit on the sideline and throw in the occassional bone to see the fur fly. What has dissapointed me is how mild mannered this discussion has been. Probably because the benefits, perceived or otherwise, are irrelevant in the overall scheme of things. A bit like the Irish question. A unified Ireland would still be subservient to Brussels. The right to self-determine what exactly? Any right a country may have to set its own course and live or die by its decisions will be far outweighed by the potential for the governing bodies higher up the food chain to bu**er things up. Brussels will determine Scotland's future whether in the EU or outside it, just as it currently does. This flies in the face of the whole UKIP mantra. Who controls things, the politisions in Westminster or the politisions in Brussels, at the end of the day it makes no difference to the man on the street. At the end of the day they are still politisions.

I like to think that the average Englishman doesn't give a tinkers dam either way, I know I don't. I was hoping that I could just sit on the sideline and throw in the occassional bone to see the fur fly. What has dissapointed me is how mild mannered this discussion has been.

Well I'm at Grading Level II for what it's worth. So that's about 5 weeks now.

I use 7 at work and have XP at home plus Vista on a laptop I rarely use. I just bought my mother a laptop with 8. WTF, might be good on a phone or tablet but straight from the box it's incomprehensible.

It's what the good old 3d was made of.

Sam Fox is old as Peck and a carpet muncher. Spoilsport! Us old gits still need some fantasies left. Wouldn't that be a fantasy for you then Dave? So sorry about all this Debbie! The new pound coin a fantasy piece.

After nuking the french quarter. Tell the Queen she is welcome to take over North America, and the USA! Anything to get rid of our current President (or lack thereof!)..... If the opposing party rules Congress, your President has about as much real power as our Queen. If that were only true...Our President thinks he is a Monarch! What you mean a queen

I think you will find we are a constitutional monarchy that pretends to be a democracy

I wonder if they would be able to prevent ghosting with all that metal being sucked out of the obverse. I guess it would also be the first coin in modern times with two busts.

There's a lot of sense in that, scott. The 1952 sixpence is not rare in any sense of the word, but its mintage is 1/13 of the next scarcest (1938) and a tiny fraction of the commonest (1948), so it's always going to be regarded as a genuine 'key' date. The whole problem with this is that key dates have been taken from change since coin collecting begun. The key dates are probably the most common coins around.

Perhaps we should just send the army in and hold a flash referendum.

Surely rare just means there are less than 10 on ebay at any one time.