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I recently bought a lot of coin monthlies and amongst them is a august 81 Just contact me if its missing from a set and spoiling not having a full set

The website says £70 but I wrote £35 into the catalogue at the time - spooky !

In the October 1979 edition of Coin Monthly, there's a feature on the fact that they would be going to fortnightly beginning 5th October 1979 (so 5th to 18th & so on after that). I'm not sure of the exact date it ended, but it had to be before July 1980, as I've now seen a Coin Monthly for then. So it appears that it ran for less than a year. Might be a bit of a challenge tracking all the fortnightly's down - even for such a relatively short period. In the meantime, I'm pleased to say I've managed to place two very low price orders, which give me February 1988, the entire period from June to December 1989 plus January & February 1990, and June 1991. Now that I've started down this road, my objective is to obtain the entire Coin Monthly (and fortnightly) series up to and including February 1992. Beginning to end. As there's likely to be some overlap and duplication, I'll flag up any spares and members are welcome to them free of charge if they're interested.

Here is my own widest date, which I think is an undocumented BP 1889Ad (R + r). Extra leaf is definitely visible, also right for a 'd' date width suffix.

Aha, that one is safe with me.....😃 Jerry

As the world's population swelled over the past few decades, Santa's sleigh got heavier and heavier, requiring more reindeer to pull it. Santa hired two new reindeer as crew, Lee and Franklin. As part of their new hire training both Lee and Franklin go through a lot of physical training, navigational training, as well as a list of things that is to be packed on the sleigh. Franklin is going through the list of banned items. There are weapons, drugs, etc., but one item caught his curiosity... Cement. Franklin says to Lee "Hey, do you have any idea why cement might be banned?" "No idea, let's ask the boss. I can't see why anyone would want that" says Lee They both go to Santa's office and ask "Hey, Santa? Does anyone ever actually ask for cement for Christmas?" Santa, in the process of checking his list, puts it down and says "Yes. Every year there is a small village by a river that floods constantly. They ask for as much as they can get to build a wall. Every year I refuse". Both Franklin and Lee look at each other in amazement. That sounds like a great gift to give a village who needs it. Franklin then asks "But Santa, why would you ban them from having cement? It sure sounds like they could use it!" Santa turns to both of them and says... "Frank, Lee, my deer. I don't give out dams"