Coincraft Junk Mail

[£400 for a Penny ? 0]

We still avoid the local pubs because £10 for 2 drinks and 2 soft drinks is too much

Well, use them or lose them....

[RobJ 0]

Well, use them or lose them....

Touché £400.

[Red Riley 2]

BTW Asda green can 4% larger is Fosters at a fraction of the price.

That pee water is overpriced whatever you pay for it.

[Peter 615]

Well, use them or lose them....

Touché £400.

They are all after your meal deals...what ever happened to proper pubs?I won't bother...or can't afford to bother.

We are off to the pub...tonight but it won't be for the beer...maybe a nice steak for £6.95 but I won't fill my bladder at £3 a pint and £4.75 for a glass of plonk.

[Red Riley 2]

Well, use them or lose them....

Touché £400.

They are all after your meal deals...what ever happened to proper pubs?I won't bother...or can't afford to bother.

We are off to the pub...tonight but it won't be for the beer...maybe a nice steak for £6.95 but I won't fill my bladder at £3 a pint and £4.75 for a glass of plonk.

Oh come on Peter, you're sounding more and more like my Gran every day. Beer was 12p a pint when I started drinking but then I was earning all of £20 a week. If you take RPI into account, I doubt if there's much difference.

I agree that the quality of our pubs has gone down though.

[azda 973]

German beer isthe best. 89 cent for half a litte bottle, alcohol content between 5 and 8% Yum Yum

[argentumandcoins 70]

German beer isthe best. 89 cent for half a litte bottle, alcohol content between 5 and 8% Yum Yum

Well if there's one thing the Scots do know about it's alcohol!

[azda 973]

No comment (hic)

[Cerbera100 0]

BTW Asda green can 4% larger is Fosters at a fraction of the price.

That pee water is overpriced whatever you pay for it.

Well said that man!

Back on topic - I seem to remember seeing a 1996 Silver Proof set in Phoenix priced at a hefty £245... and marked '£50 off'! I happened to be up there a few days later, so popped my spare set in my bag (I have 3, and cant shift the spares for love nor money!) and played 'dumb no-nothing commoner' ("It was my fathers hobby" or some rubbish) and was offered a princely £50 for it cash! Clearly I declined...

On the other hand, you can get some quirky bits in there which can be quite fun...

[Peckris 579]

BTW Asda green can 4% larger is Fosters at a fraction of the price.

That pee water is overpriced whatever you pay for it.

Well said that man!

Back on topic - I seem to remember seeing a 1996 Silver Proof set in Phoenix priced at a hefty £245... and marked '£50 off'! I happened to be up there a few days later, so popped my spare set in my bag (I have 3, and cant shift the spares for love nor money!) and played 'dumb no-nothing commoner' ("It was my fathers hobby" or some rubbish) and was offered a princely £50 for it cash! Clearly I declined...

On the other hand, you can get some quirky bits in there which can be quite fun...

I picked up my 1996 set at auction for just over £50. It's catalogued for £100 and has been for years. £245??? Ye gods. Wasn't so long ago you could pick up a 1927 proof set for that.

[scottishmoney 18]

Ah many a year ago, actually when I was a young poke, I sent off my cheque for £14.95 and got a very well abused Eddie the I penny. I also bought a "Gentleman's Magazine" from 1743, for about the same price I think - the penny is worth less, but the mag appreciated quite well in the time since CoinCraft sold it.

I do wonder though, having had my curiosity piqued, I decided to view their website, and I do notice one notable absence amongst the principals of said organisation - Claire Lobel is nah there anymore? She used to pervade all the banknotes around there, and even managed to buy up a hoard of Union Bank of Scotland notes at one time.