Sylvester

Dot Cotton? Oh sorry it's Branning now.

Yeah i'll draft something up on the regular issue die varities. There really only is the 1992 10 pences and that 1983 2p of note. I don't think there's much else as of yet. But we'd be the first catalogue to get the 10 pences stuck in.

What period of hammered? Any Anglo-Saxon or Henry VI?

Does research for a coin catalogue count? Because if so you've already done that...

It's human i presume...

What do they shout (or whisper) if it's indeterminate?

You can't put a kid down for trying! Oh you can, you can trip him up, stamp on him and throw a bucket of sand on him for good measure. Some people call me cruel, i call it justice.

oh and 'terminus post-quem' and 'terminus ante-quem' which i learned in my days doing archæology. From history study i picked up a few others, sola fidei, sola scriptura. Septem Sacramentorum. And i can just about count in latin.

I got Status Quo, no idea what the other mean though. I can remember stuff like per annum, ibidem, etcetera, anti/post meridian (sp?), pater noster, anno domini, and the other odd word here and there. Which is not too bad considering i've never studied Latin. Having said that though i was never all that fantastic at the languages i did study, i think in English, i guess i'm just not a language person. Or a maths person... Although oddly enough i liked science.

I can never remember what that means! (I must have looked it up forty times). "Buyer Beware" I somehow keep thinking it means something to do with something being empty. Thanks you saved me having to dig the Latin dictionary off of it's shelf. I have real trouble remembering what Latin phrases mean, i dunno why it just doesn't go in.

I can never remember what that means! (I must have looked it up forty times). Some of these ebay people need either help or a bullet. Which often amounts to the same thing.

I liked the history of medicine, it wasn't one of those horrible history modules putting marxist/socialist views on everything and then claiming to be unbiased. Which is the reason i avoid modern history. To moralistic. Older history tends to be taught the old fashioned way.

Can you post pictures? If not you'll have to describe the design, there's no way we can tell what you've got unless you give us more info. Is it silver, gold, bronze? What size is it, does it say on it what it is (i.e One Shilling). Otherwise it'd be like me walking into a car dealers saying i'd got a 1964 registered car with four wheels and a steering wheel.

Have you left school now then Jon?

The one and only.

Unless you're called Colin. (Sorry private in-joke, Oli will get it though)

That, well that, that is indescribable. And it's one hell of a find! She's gorgeous, well struck, little wear, nice legends, nice flan. Some of us have to pay for such quality!

22mm, then it is most definately a gold sovereign. Just like this one... http://www.goldsovereigns.co.uk/forsalegeorgev.html (Crowns are silver and measure 39mm).

In a word, yes. Very much so. Collectors like original unaltered and uncleaned coins. If it's been worn then it's probably smoothed out some of the detail (i noticed you said it was shiny), which constant wear can produce. Although don't be disheartened yet because it will most probably be gold. It could be one of four things; Half Sovereign (About the size of a modern penny) Sovereign (Size of a 10p) Two Pound Coin (Size of a £2 coin) Five Pound Coin (Size of those £5 coins commemorative issues they sell at Post Offices). Because of the damaged nature of the coin (i.e jewelry), it won't have any collector value but it will retain it's gold value.

Won't do you much good if she tries to claim half... She could walk off with half the coin collection. Although if you've got reciepts for the coins you bought before marriage keep them. I know a guy that managed to hang onto his coins because he'd kept the reciept and thus his soon to be ex-wife could not claim the ones he'd bought before marriage... as for the others well she got the lot.

...of my days as a student. The degree results were published today, so i'm in rather a good mood today as everything i've worked for over the last three years has finally paid off as i now have a degree. I was a 2:1 (Upper Second)/2:2 (Lower second) boarderline candidate so i was unsure which way it would swing. But as luck would have it i've managed to get a 2:1!!

I was unaware of Unknown's presence, obviously he didn't manage to catch me. You know Andy to say London Coin Fair is supposed to be the 'Big' one, well maybe it's just me but wasn't York's bigger?

I admire you for doing this, I'd hate to be a student teacher. I might be mad, but even i'm not mad enough to even consider secondary!

Sleep... Well i'm trying to get two summer jobs, one for July and one August, only short jobs but they pay well. September-December i need to get myself some experience of working in a primary school, so that'll be a bit of volunteer work. Then i can apply for a PGCE in teaching (but you need class based experience to get onto any PGCE course). Hopefully i'll get on a course starting in Sept 2006... I haven't figured out the Jan-July bit yet.

So do i! Thanks JMD.