Peckris 2

I rather think (on a hunch) that Putin initially pushed as far and wide as he could, hoping for a quick result. But he possibly didn't expect to succeed in that aim, and that he then concentrated on his primary strategic motive: to gain the separatist Dombass giving Russia a secure land bridge to the Crimea and the Black Sea. He seems to have achieved that, at least for now, and I wonder if that will be the final outcome? If it is, Ukraine need a strong defensive border to the Dombass so that Russia wilil think more than twice before attempting a similar invasion. Just as an added note - it now seems that Russia's biggest pop star (their female Paul McCartney if you like) has come out against the war. Whether it will have the desired effect or not remains to be seen.

Also, they were demonetised a good 2 years before pennies.

Can you see the edge through the plastic tomb? Just to rule out it being a sawn in half pair...

I've just watched this. Not only is it a fascinating documentary (her portraits and images in photographs, paintings, and film), but there's a section near the beginning which is about her images on coins. Including a very brief video showing Gillick at work, and an old interview with Machin doing his thing.

It was on BBC One, so I guess you can see it on iPlayer.

Farewell to our long lived and longest reigning monarch. I'm no Royalist, far from it, but I had great respect for the Queen and her enormous achievement of public service. It's rather bizarre that in all my many decades of life, I've never known another monarch, yet now I must get used to King Charles. I will miss her in a strange way, as a level-headed and even-handed ruler, who nevertheless is known to have had a great sense of humour. Her smile gave that away. I don't what else to say. Words are not enough.

The weird thing is - if you look at the bidding history - the last 4 bids came from the same bidder and for the same (winning) amount, but at separate times.

I've been watching all the MPs' tributes all day. Not only moving, but - to prove her sense of humour - full of amusing anecdotes. My favourite was of someone being shown in to meet her at the Palace; to his absolute horror, his phone went off as he was being ushered forward. He managed to turn it off only for the Queen to say "Perhaps you should have answered that - it might have been someone important". One slight twinge was when Chris Bryant (MP for Rhondda) said that his constituents would have seen her face constantly since 1953 when minting coins at Llantrisant. Oops.

I was born only weeks after she came to the throne. It's not only tragic but rather strange that she's no longer there.

Yes, but in the 19th C they weren't generally interested in anything after 1816, and were even less interested in base metal coins though marginally more in prer-1860 perhaps?

On the other hand, maybe there just wasn't the research and scholarship in Montagu's time, compared to the huge accomplishment of Peck? Though Peck too isn't complete, or 100% infallible.

I can't disagree. One thing I'd add is that businesses should have the energy cap applied the same as for consumers, which because it isn't, is seeing small businesses fail across the board, especially those which rely on gas and electricity such as catering establishments. I'd also add that tax cuts right now aren’t going to pay for this.

I don't think London Coins are positive either, by their saying "accompanied by a ticket saying...". Having said that, it does have the sharp clarity of a proof - I've never seen such a clearly defined set of national flowers on a currency example.

Erm.. how would we know?

Putin is another Stalin

Well, longer than what we are not storing...

Except that the biggest European countries have been storing gas. We don't have that capacity and buy gas as and when we need it. I think we will end up no less scared than anywhere else.

It rather looks as though your incuse A almost exactly corresponds to the (raised) A of ANNO, in size , style, and position on the edge.

https://h2bh.home.exetel.com.au/who-said/tony-heller/

That would be surprising - I thought they took great care with those crowns even wrapping them in special paper before sending them out?

What we need for self sufficiency - AS WELL AS alternatives like wind/wave/solar power - is the new (i.e. modern designs not 1950s) form of nuclear power. See Bill Gates on the subject: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Bill-Gates-Backed-Firm-Raises-750M-To-Develop-Small-Nuclear-Reactors.html

Not true. Despite Nimoy's ridiculous assertion (which, by the way, is one effect of climate change - even though the global average temperature is increasing, there are associated variations which can cause effects like snow where you wouldn't normally see it) 'global warming' has been a "thing" since long before that stupid video was made. It would be utterly insane to ignore the global increase in temperature whether or not it's entirely manmade, or whether or not CO2 is the biggest culprit.

Yeah, that's funny. Here's what brings climate change home to me: we as individuals tend to think vertically; in normal urban/suburban conditions we can see for no more than a few hundred metres, but if we look up we can see the sky, and that's a HUGE distance! Yet... if you were to travel 15 miles to see someone, you'd think nothing of it. What's 15 miles after all? But if you were to travel 15 miles vertically, you'd be in a very thin part of the atmosphere where the oxygen/pressure ratio would mean you'd have virtually no oxygen to breathe. Everest is 5 miles high and most people need supplementary oxygen there. I've read that 75% of the total mass of the Earth's atmosphere is in the first 10km. Our planet's atmosphere is comparatively thinner than the peel around an apple. We interfere with it at our peril!

There's a guy works down the hip shop swears he's Pelvis.