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Just got the 1 myself

Nons....Looking back how this thread started I can't see how you've upped your game!!!! Lovely Bronze Sovereign

Nice example...one of the most harshly graded series due to the artificial darkening (in my opinion). The dark lustre encourages us to perceive what may just be lustre loss as wear because it is so visually obvious. If you took a light finished full lustred coin and removed the lustre in the places that are evident on this coin, I doubt it would even be noticed!! 1903 is a tougher year than many appreciate..and is the low tide year for this series.....

Presumably a bit of everything. Personal experience is that there will always be some people that inter-marry, which usually works ok when religion is dispensed with. I also know of the opposite, where religion has thrown a real long-term spanner in the works following a death in the family. The demographics will become more skewed as things stand and it is difficult to argue otherwise. I'm not optimistic that it will be for the better. However good your immediate circumstances are, public opinion will be driven by the headlines. It would still be better if we were out of Europe with selective immigration, taking the skills we need.

Wow...powerful stuff. Logically, he's correct about the future birth demographics being skewed the way he suggests. Unless something dramatic happens, I don't see how that will change. There won't be a gradual blurring of the lines through - for want of a better expression - "marrying out", as Muslims are a very close community. You don't hear of many muslims marrying or partnering Western men/women. As to whether the cataclysm he refers to, will happen, is much more up for debate. None of us really know.

Noted.

I know I've now got two out of the three I bid for - I've got Lot No 50, the 1860 Freeman 14 LCW under foot, and Lot No 86, the Freeman 74 "specimen". Still waiting to hear for certain about the other one, the1861 Freeman 22.

The site is www.baldwin.co.uk He should be able to be reached through there. He was at Spink for a long, long time. There also is (but he is harder to reach) Mark Rasmussen at www.rascoins.co.uk PS - That is my coin & the obverse looks like the coin was dragged on the street, not quite as bad in person - so I say, LOL!