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Mines closed steadily from the late 60s onwards as other sources of fuel became available. But only in 1984-1986 were they closed by violent confrontation between the miners and the forces deliberately unleashed by the government of the day.

The group of three has gone 😊 Just the 1939 BU CGS 82 on its own left for £20 Posted. 1895 BU CGS 82 £87 posted.................PM me for pictures if interested 1951 BU CGS 82 currency £55 posted Pete.

the mix that babies come from 🤩😥

Wilson- don"t get me started....

Case proven there - even I have to admit that. Norway, on the other hand, made that much money that they are now the only country in the world whose population, and I mean all of them, can turn the lights off, lock the doors, go on holiday for a year, and when they got back, Noway would still be in the black....

There were faults on both sides of the divide to be fair. Neither side can take any moral high ground. The unions because of their lousy, truculent attitude, and ultimately Thatcher for being over ruthless and dogmatically obsessed with privatisation in a naturally mixed economy. However, where I think Thatcher went badly wrong was in closing all the mines (or the overwhelming majority any rate) in the so called "dash for gas", which exhausted our North Sea supplies for electricity production at what had been coal fired power stations. She should have kept most of them open. Not only would that have saved whole communities, but additionally, investment could have been made into clean coal burning. We would also have still have a good reserve of natural gas and not have to buy any from the Russian Gazprom (how's that for the law of unintended consequences, for Thatcher) nor any need to start fracking.

I think you would gain far more from being an acknowledged expert in your chosen field than a marginal gain in scarcer varieties would cost you (as you're possibly the first to this, you can infer that there aren't a huge number of variety collectors for 1787 silver). If it was me, I'd publish and be damned, though after taking Rob's advice above.

It's always worth delaying publication until you are satisfied the article is complete as you inevitably find something that casts doubt on your findings to date. As for publishing images, the catalogues are already deemed to be in the public domain, so you are unlikely to run into copyright issues by illustrating these. If the source is given, then the auction house is being given free publicity. Images taken from articles on a website would be different. All studies use the author's images where possible.

I worked for a while in the ceramics industry for a while in the '70's and did a few piecework jobs one week when lots of people in the factory were off sick with the 'flu. I worked at reasonable rate and was amazed at the end of the week how much my wage packet had increased. I was then taken to one side by my boss and told not to do that again. There had been a union meeting called about me, apparently, complaining that I had ruined things for everyone..... Thatcher had two main failings- she believed that everyone above a certain intelligence level had a sense of humour, and therefore that she did, and went on that terrible Yes Prime minister programme/ special script reading, which proved she had no idea about comedy whatsoever. This delusional sense of her talents led to the other failing- staying on for far too long. I wish John Major was running things now- everyone in the EU knew that in him we had quite the best quiet negotiator in Europe..... Mind you, he was so dull compared to the others that we all had to believe, because of Spitting Image, that he wore his underpants outside his trousers......

I think Blake considering it was way before the internet Mr freeman did a fantastic job from the resources he had. F69 R16...........51-100 Estimate. F76 R17............16-50 Estimate. I have a book that belonged to Mr freeman of which inserted there are numerous typed out details of estimates and prices that was done in the seventies. An amazing insight researched by looking at thousands of loose pennies in hand of all grades.

I am learning to play this on the guitar at the moment. Another favorite of mine.

It affects both sides, but tends to be more obvious on the obverse because there is a greater expanse of flat areas and less clutter in the design. Here's one with it on both sides.

At what point do you start to think "it's getting a bit narrow down here"? Lynton / Lynmouth on Sunday.