Boomstick Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 So there I was last night, at the fortnightly pub quiz with my fellow NCT dads, when in the history round comes up the question "in which year did Queen Victoria die?". A confident smile flickered across my boats boat race and I confidently whispered to the chap with the pen " that'll be 1902". "Are you sure?" enquire the fellow members of The Tired Dads. "Listen" says I, "I'm a numistmatist and they didn't mint Edward VII coins until 1902 - that's a fact." well, they all looked impressed by my knowledge in these matters and we moved onto question 7. I subsequently got a right earful when the answers came out... Quote
Colin G. Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 So there I was last night, at the fortnightly pub quiz with my fellow NCT dads, when in the history round comes up the question "in which year did Queen Victoria die?". A confident smile flickered across my boats boat race and I confidently whispered to the chap with the pen " that'll be 1902". "Are you sure?" enquire the fellow members of The Tired Dads. "Listen" says I, "I'm a numistmatist and they didn't mint Edward VII coins until 1902 - that's a fact." well, they all looked impressed by my knowledge in these matters and we moved onto question 7. I subsequently got a right earful when the answers came out...Ahh you fell foul of Edward's coronation date, not the year of Victoria's death which was 1901!! Quote
Coinery Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 I live in fear of any historical questions that can be linked to my interest in coins, and that I 'should' know the answer to...pub quiz, pub game machine, who wants to be a millionaire game at Christmas, brrrr, gives me the shudders just thinking about it!Poor you that you got bagged! :-) :-) :-) Quote
Debbie Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 Ditto Coinery! Last year my boys were heavily into the Horrible Histories series. There was this brilliant song which helped us all learn the English monarchy ...... great fun! Quote
Peckris Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 Ditto Coinery! Last year my boys were heavily into the Horrible Histories series. There was this brilliant song which helped us all learn the English monarchy ...... great fun! Oh I remember seeing that on telly - yes, great fun! (That whole series owes a BIG debt though, to Terry Jones and Michael Palin whose "Complete and Utter History of Britain" was one of the precursors of Monty Python). Quote
bagerap Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 Twenty or so years ago our pub team reached the semi finals of the quiz league. They announced a format change, each member of the team would have to elect to answer questions from a selection of specialist subjects. I was pleased to see that one of them was coins. Fortunately they were simple enough and I picked up bonus points from the poor sod in the opposing team who obviously hadn't a clue. The last question concerned the meaning of the letters K.N. Thank you God, job done, points garnered.Afterwards someone told me that a horse called Norton Coin was running at Cheltenham the following day and with the way my luck was running, a bet might be a good idea.Norton Coin duly obliged by winning the Gold Cup at 100-1, even beating Desert Orchid! Quote
Debbie Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 That whole series owes a BIG debt though, to Terry Jones and Michael Palin whose "Complete and Utter History of Britain" was one of the precursors of Monty PythonYes thinking about it is in that ilk.... I remember as a child I thought the the Spanish Inquistion and the comfy chair was hilarious. I don't really get it now?!Bagtrap...ner ner, ner ner ( twilight zone sound effect) oh never mind.... Quote
Peckris Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 That whole series owes a BIG debt though, to Terry Jones and Michael Palin whose "Complete and Utter History of Britain" was one of the precursors of Monty PythonYes thinking about it is in that ilk.... I remember as a child I thought the the Spanish Inquistion and the comfy chair was hilarious. I don't really get it now?!Bagtrap...ner ner, ner ner ( twilight zone sound effect) oh never mind.... They were just being subversive! Quote
ski Posted March 15, 2012 Posted March 15, 2012 Norton Coin duly obliged by winning the Gold Cup at 100-1, even beating Desert Orchid! let me explain for those not familier with betting odds......liverpool are quoted as 10-1 to win the premiership this season....what this means is, if you bet £1 on liverpool............................................................................................................................................youve wasted a quid Ahh you fell foul of Edward's coronation date, not the year of Victoria's death which was 1901!!i may be wrong but this may be dito for lizzie le deux, ascended to the throne in 52 but got the hat in 53. Quote
scott Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 it is the case for all of them. even if they die in january of that year, the monarch at the start of the year is on the coins. Quote
Peckris Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 Norton Coin duly obliged by winning the Gold Cup at 100-1, even beating Desert Orchid! let me explain for those not familier with betting odds......liverpool are quoted as 10-1 to win the premiership this season....what this means is, if you bet £1 on liverpool............................................................................................................................................youve wasted a quid Hm .. wonder what odds you would have got at half-time in the 2005 Champions League Final?Ahh you fell foul of Edward's coronation date, not the year of Victoria's death which was 1901!!i may be wrong but this may be dito for lizzie le deux, ascended to the throne in 52 but got the hat in 53.Correctamundo. Also true for George VI, his brother having abdickered in ?December 1936 (the year of three monarchs). And Edward of scarce silver fame, he deaded in 1910. As scott says, you'd be hard pressed to find someone whose accession, coronation, and first coins, all happened in the same year. Quote
Nick Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 Norton Coin duly obliged by winning the Gold Cup at 100-1, even beating Desert Orchid! let me explain for those not familier with betting odds......liverpool are quoted as 10-1 to win the premiership this season....what this means is, if you bet £1 on liverpool............................................................................................................................................youve wasted a quid Hm .. wonder what odds you would have got at half-time in the 2005 Champions League Final?Ahh you fell foul of Edward's coronation date, not the year of Victoria's death which was 1901!!i may be wrong but this may be dito for lizzie le deux, ascended to the throne in 52 but got the hat in 53.Correctamundo. Also true for George VI, his brother having abdickered in ?December 1936 (the year of three monarchs). And Edward of scarce silver fame, he deaded in 1910. As scott says, you'd be hard pressed to find someone whose accession, coronation, and first coins, all happened in the same year.George II was the last one where that occurred. Before that there was George I, Anne... They seemed to be much quicker with the coronations in those days. Quote
Peckris Posted March 16, 2012 Posted March 16, 2012 Norton Coin duly obliged by winning the Gold Cup at 100-1, even beating Desert Orchid! let me explain for those not familier with betting odds......liverpool are quoted as 10-1 to win the premiership this season....what this means is, if you bet £1 on liverpool............................................................................................................................................youve wasted a quid Hm .. wonder what odds you would have got at half-time in the 2005 Champions League Final?Ahh you fell foul of Edward's coronation date, not the year of Victoria's death which was 1901!!i may be wrong but this may be dito for lizzie le deux, ascended to the throne in 52 but got the hat in 53.Correctamundo. Also true for George VI, his brother having abdickered in ?December 1936 (the year of three monarchs). And Edward of scarce silver fame, he deaded in 1910. As scott says, you'd be hard pressed to find someone whose accession, coronation, and first coins, all happened in the same year.George II was the last one where that occurred. Before that there was George I, Anne... They seemed to be much quicker with the coronations in those days.Probably due to a certain .. instability .. surrounding the monarchy in the previous few hundred years. Quote
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