Paddy

No worry about the dates - just the circle shape. I put them in so I/you can describe the moves. It is trickier than it looks - best to try with coins on a table.

Here is another old chestnut: Arrange 6 coins as per the top picture. You have 3 moves to get to the bottom picture. In each move you can slide just one coin - it must not move any other coin in sliding and must come to rest so that it is touching two or more other coins. How do you do it?

An umbrella?

That is great observation! I wonder if @secret santa would consider expanding his section on George III pennies to include these for posterity?

Isn't it something like "Everything I say is a lie"? This leaves it impossible for the Cannibal!

Yes it is. You say to whichever robot you choose: "If I were to ask the other robot which door he would say was safe, what would he answer?" Which ever you have asked you get one half truth and one half lie - making a lie overall, and so you choose the other door.

Depends whether you want to buy them for your own collection, or with a view to selling them on and making a margin? Leaving aside the Chesterfield token, for which others may give you a better idea, as a part time dealer I would expect to offer £30 or £40 to leave room for selling on. If this was going to go into my own collection, maybe £60 or £70. Much of it would sell on at scrap, and I can't see anything that is an easy profit. The 1889 Crown and the EdVII Halfcrown are the easiest to move. The rest on Ebay will take a while to move, and bear in mind the selling fees and other costs.

This is a famous old one, but maybe some here haven't met it before: You are locked in a room with just 2 doors out. One leads to safety, the other certain death. Also in the room are two robots - one can only tell the truth, and the other always lies, but you don't know which is which. They know which door leads to safety and you don't. You are allowed just one question to one of the robots. What do you ask to ensure you know which is the safe door to open?

Also this one from today's paper amused me:

I hope this works - very amusing short video! https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=!AJ6cAJ1DJVsPyuE&cid=0A5780CDE40BB7B9&id=A5780CDE40BB7B9!54510&parId=root&o=OneUp

Yes, with the amendment that works. 1. Ra6, b7xa6, 2.b7 mate. (Black has no other legal move than b7xa6.)

On a quick look I think your initial assessment is fair. You do have some silver amongst the pictures labelled Half Crown, Shillings, Tanners and Victorian, but most looks to be in the "melt value only category". Someone may pay a bit more for the 1910 Halfcrown, but nothing earth shattering. The notes are not my speciality, but mostly look too tatty to arouse much interest. The Military Shilling is first issue (c1946) and may interest a militaria person more than a note collector. Oops - forgot Foreign 5 is mostly silver, and the Rupee will sell reasonably well. Some of the other foreign coins are allso silver. The chesterfield kit bag token is intriguing!

We should have a "Groan" reaction for this section of the forum...

Most of those are no better than scrap metal and they are asking more than double that. No bid from me!

... half way between Wounded Knee and Kicked in the Crotch...

Amusingly, my father told this story to a couple in their 60s a few years back. At the punchline the wife laughed uproariously but the husband just looked puzzled. On questioning he admitted that he had no idea what a "Quickie" was!

With all this extra time on our hands, why not post some music to share? I came across a couple of CDs by Ozric Tentacles the other day - very interesting to me - somewhere between prog and trance! This Youtube will play you the music - sadly no video to go with it:

Not sure if this is a laugh or a cry, but the term "20 20 vision" will take on a whole new meaning after this year!

Forgive me if you have heard this one before: A man walks into a cafe, takes a seat at a table and starts reading the menu. After a few minutes the waitress approaches: "What will you have?" she asks. "I'll have a quickie," he replies confidently. She scowls and stomps off. After a few minutes she returns and demands: "Are you ready to order now?" "Yes - I'd like a quickie please," he replies. She thumps the table and storms off angrily. Soon the manager sends her back. "Ok - are you ready to make a sensible order now?" she says angrily. "May I please have a quickie?" he asks plaintively. "Right, I'm calling the police!" she shouts. At this point the man at the next table leans over helpfully and says: "I think you'll find that is pronounced "Quiche"!".

It's another smoking knee! Must be close to a "recognised variety" by now. 😉

The M1 and the A1 are in a bar having a drink when a stretch of red tarmac walks in. "Who is that?" asks the M1. "Oh, watch out for him - he's a real cycle path!" replies the A1.

I'm afraid my BS detector was set off very quickly by the Coin cabinet letter. Seems to me just to be a shameless attempt to turn people's fears into a selling opportunity. Remind's me of the Blair and Cameron spin days!

Here is mine - possibly even sharper on the reverse but with one or two irregularities around the edge:

To me looks genuine enough, just a bit over graded. I would give it VF - too much wear, particularly on the shield, for any more.

I find the squiggles rapidly give me a headache. If I really want to find out what they are I use zeno.ru - they have an enormous database of Asian coins already and have experts regularly there that can ID almost anything Indian or Oriental.