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I agree. But it had very little to do with being in or out of the EU - contrary to opinion in some quarters, there was a great deal of freedom in negotiating with individual companies, it's just that most EU members thought (possibly mistakenly in this one particular issue) that they'd do better going with the overall EU negotiations. Also, we developed the AstraZeneca vaccine early due to our brilliant scientists at Oxford, and that would have happened whether or not we were EU members.

Moderna This company generated nearly $6bn of sales from its Covid-19 vaccine in the first half of the year, achieving a $4bn net profit – the first half-year profit since the firm was founded in Massachusetts in 2010. Moderna has signed $20bn worth of vaccine contracts this year, including that for 17m doses to the UK, 460m to the EU and 500m to the US. It expects to produce up to 1bn jabs this year, followed by 2bn-3bn in 2022. Pfizer/BioNTech Sales worth $11.3bn (£8bn) were made by Pfizer in the first half of this year from the Covid-19 jab that it developed with Germany’s BioNTech. In July it lifted its 2021 sales forecast to $33.5bn. BioNTech expects to make revenues of nearly €16bn (£13.5bn) from the vaccine this year, as its first-half net profit jumped to almost €4bn from €142m a year earlier. The two firms have agreed to supply up to 1.8bn doses to the EU from December up to 2023, on top of 600m doses previously ordered this year. The US government has ordered 700m up to April next year for Americans, as well as 500m for donations to the poorest nations. Pfizer and BioNTech are aiming to produce 3bn jabs this year and 4bn next year. They are now charging the EU €19.50 per jab, up from €15.50 in the first procurement deal, the Financial Times reported. The UK is also reportedly paying more than previously, about £22 a shot for 35m doses for next year’s autumn booster campaign.

It's not talked about because it's simply a random thing, and not a variety as such.

Ok. Name me one benefit Brexit has delivered?

There could be slight wear due to sliding in a cabinet tray and by handling - in which case just give it a slightly lower grade! e.g. AUNC.

Oh lord - another to add to the list of absolute no-no's : Liz Truss and Cruella Braverman being already there.

Seaby's published a separate bronze / copper edition of their catalogue in the mid-60s. Of course, Peck was the ultimate reference at that time.

Yes, but he had to suddenly hand in a shock resignation as Downing Street cat first. But don't worry - Nadine Dorries has got his position..

Etsy had a secondhand Wormser stetson (probably better condition than yours..) for £170 - and it sold! https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1049300304/sale-vintage-1960s-stetson-7x-wormser

Of even less consequence - 5 years ago!!!

That reminds me - I must get my niece Billie-Jean to open a Halifax account.

One possible reason for this is that the Mint held base metal coins as a low priority compared to silver, and therefore took many more attempts to get things right, resulting in more varieties. The other reason is that the changeover from copper to bronze was so fraught with difficulties, that the period from 1858 to 1863 alone could be worth a serious research study and produce a whole book with its findings.

Agreed ... though as a general, not an absolute, principle. Just to give one example: I'd rather have a 1946 ONE' penny in EF than an UNC 1944.

If phones can connect to cameras using wifi, then the reverse should also be true?

Yes, it's a JH 6d. I saw it for sale at the Midland Fair 20+ years ago. I would have passed over it as I already had an UNC 1887 6d, but even though it's a small coin, I could see there was something unusual about the date so I bought it.

There are digital cameras which will take wifi input from a mobile phone to act as a shutter, as long as you've set up a link between phone and camera. Most of the more recent (last 7 years or more?) will do so, but afaik not necessarily the cheap ones though you can always do research into that. As for output of video "all the time", you are constrained by the cards used by the camera. Even fairly low quality video on a large - e.g. 64GB - card, you will only get so much continuous video. Again, you need to research this issue. Also bear in mind that European rules limit the length of continuous single shoot video, but I'm not sure why.

Obviously bought by a total nutter

I'll try to find one. I agree about the overdate problem, but apparently there are scores of patterns. Ask @1887jubilee

1. Turkey applied for EU membership many years ago and they STILL aren’t. And won't be until their governmental political system is totally reformed, i.e. they've become a democracy. 2. Russia did provide military support to Turkey as part of the fight against ISIS. However, in other matters in Syria they are on opposite sides: Russia supports Assad and opposes the Free Syrian Army, while Turkey is against the former and assists the latter.

Yeah, if you don't fall foul of the authorities, it's a great place - reminds me of Greece in the early 70s, though Turkey doesn't have soldiers with rifles on every corner of its capital.

Only in the sense that they are a long term applicant. But until they become a democracy with acceptable civil rights, they will never be allowed to join (or they'd be members already, long ago).

There is no way (Farage, are you listening? ) that Turkey could be considered an EU 'candidate' in the short- or mid-term. Their civil rights record - for one - would preclude them.

It's entirely possible - though what first drew my attention to it was the gap between the 8 and the 7, much wider than on normal issues. One of our fellow members (who's studied 1887 JH coins in very fine detail) says it's a pattern, but he also says there are very many 'patterns' for this date.

Or not...

I found some 1908-1910 could have a reddish tinge. Possibly struck on blanks supplied by Kings Norton.