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I shall have to inform one other forum of this as i believe some members on there may have dealt with Colin over the years.

Other Hobbies? Well i just bought a model of KITT from Knightrider (come on i used to watch that programme as a child, well that's my excuse). So yeah models of anything really. I haven't bought any railway stuff in a while. I would like a tail-light lantern but i haven't seen any knocking about. Antiques and old stuff in general, anything silver. I'm also a bit of a Titanic enthusiast... i love ships more than any other form of transport, love the seaside too, i think i just like the sea. I once tried to put together a 1912 coin set just for that Titanic year thing! I would like a momento from one of the Olympic class ships though just for the sake of it, even if it's a teacup. Although a pocketwatch stopped at 02.25 would be moving. Oh i'm a fanatical tea drinker too. I like general science and history reading, plus Terry Pratchett and Charles Dickens' books. I also like watching TV somewhat, generally the Simpsons, Eastenders and Corrie. Actually i know far too much about the latter to be good. I also seem to be collecting all things 1980s... got a pile of tapes and records and CDs and rubix cubes and the betamax... never did quite leave my childhood. Tetris!!! Space Invaders, Frogger and PacMan. Oh good stuff.

Mahogany is the one, the best by far and the only one many people trust (many other woods emit oils and this can harm coins, pine being a definate no, no) Another important note, when making the cabinet it's fine to wax and finish the outside and all, but when doing the coin trays themselves and the inside of the cabinet it's best to leave it natural. No stain! Staining the outside is fine.

You know i think the tone will have kept it out of the higher grades anyhow. Anything beyond MS65 is pure fabrication anyway. If i were you i'd forget the US grade altogether and just go with UNC.

Wow... i'm actually shocked, i was running through several names there but that wasn't one i had thought of. I once talked to Colin on his forums at colincooke coins when i was asking him about how to date corroded Charles II tin farthings. I know farthings were one of his keen interests, he was extremely helpful and even offered to invite me over to Manchester to look at the ones he'd got if it would be of any use to me. I never took him up on the offer due to too many other commitments at the time. Pity i would have liked to have seen those.

It'd never get past health and safety, some twit would choke on it. I might be wrong but i always took 'bit' as in thrupney bit(threpney bit in this neck of the woods) to have been exclusively used with the brass ones. The silver ones were joeys (as were groats) or just silver threepences. (Or threpence round here).

PostNuke? Sounds like the aftermath of Ronald Reagan pressing that red button.

My point is i don't actually like any of the parties (except UKIP)*, i just want to strategically undermine the government and keep the Tories out too. As the saying goes; "they all pee in the same pot anyhow, they just stand in different places to make it look different". I'll vote for the Conservatives if it's borderline, if i knew they were going to get in easily then i'd vote labour to weaken their majority. From my present position strong governments don't look too good, cos when they get in power they can do what the hell they want and no one can stop them (like invading Iraq which i was against anyhow). Don't kid yourselves people if the Tories got in we'd still end up with the euro... afterall it was them that took us into the common market and into Europe in the first place. They haven't said no to the euro or Europe, what the Tories said was "in Europe but not run by Europe" which is pretty broad and open to interpretation. I just want a nice isolationist policy, focus on this country first (immigration, policing etc.) and keep out of Europe/US's affairs. *I like the anti-Washington stance too.

Gowd you'd be raking it in! Actually on the Liberals, they are actually more left wing than Labour now. Politically i seem to bat both ways, some issues i take a left wing stance on, others i take a right wing stance on, which makes me a centrist with a bit of a nationalist streak that pushes me just over to the right side of the line. I think i'm voting for the UK independence party again this election. Avoiding the euro and keeping out of Europe is the only thing i really care about at this present moment in time, but that's because i want to live in the past, always have, always will.

This Roger Keenan sounds like he's from the same school of thought as Erich Von Daniken.

That's a much better specimen all round, well preserved, nice grade. I personally don't care much for the tone as i find it distracts from the design, but i'm a slate grey lover.

1912 alone would cost double that now. Mind you it depends when you actually bought them of course. (If it was 1920 you were fiddled!)

Too much money cos i don't drink... I spend most of my money on chocolate... malteasers are to die for. Best invention ever!

I'd leave it alone. If the tone ain't even then there's a reason why. An American will buy that one sooner or later.

Medieval gold at that! (First edition Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings books too)

You'd trust me to catalogue your coins?

There were some comments on one of those pages (dunno if it was the one linked above), from people who could remember the switch. One was from a coin collector who stated that the decimalisation ended the days of finding stuff like Victorian bun head pennies and silver coins in circulation. Whilst that is true with regards to the end of the bronze stuff, i should point out that i spent a George V florin (with the crowns over the sceptres) in the early '90s, so silver was still out there even upto June 1993. For me i think the demonetisation of the large 10p in 1993 was the grand finale for the pre-decimal currency. 1991/2 were strange years coin wise, the ten pence was massive, the five pence was miniscule and George VI 2/- were everywhere.

It doesn't necessarily lead to that conclusion, for example, what about hereditary peers at the turn of the century that didn't want the extension of the voting franchise? Could lead to feudalism... Ah now feudalism, there was a system! Closed market, everyone keeps their place... lovely.

That's better! More reasonable questions. On political/social matters i'm just to the right of middle, (+1.00) But i tend to be rather authoritarian with it, (+4.56).

Wow done it again, rethought some questions, came out minus on conservative (-11) and -27 on labour! Looks like the Liberals are my party! UK Independence still leads... I don't have a car so i don't care what they do with road tax or child care or anything, so once i removed those from the equation rather than guessing agree or neutral, it changed the results a heck of alot!

Okay i was way off there; (the results are) UK Independence - 45% Green Party - 36% Liberal Democrats - 14% Labour - 12% Conservatives - 3% Although i've voted UK independence several times so that's no surprise. So i might not care for the 'free market' much, but i it doesn't ask questions like should the death penelty be brought back? Should corporal punishment be back? Should the benefit handouts be restricted? If they'd asked the right questions i would have come out more right wing. I'm more of a Consensus politics (1950s/60s) Conservative... Rock on Harold MacMillian! The Old Right... i like the idea of a social security net there for those that really need it, but far too many take advantage and the frauds should be sorted out. Aas for all these murders, druggies and boyracer louts that seem to have infected the whole country, they should be lined up and shot for what good they do society they'll not be missed, there'd be less crime and road accidents. Rehibiltation does not work, once a thief always a thief.

Well they were always on bloody strike in the 70s. Mind you wasn't everything?

If the liberals were anti-euro i'd vote for them, i've always had a soft spot for the liberals. I tend to vote conservative, but i have issues with doing so, i think if they were actually in government i'd be voting against them. It feels wrong to vote for them, but i'll give them the benefit of the doubt. If the Thatcher policies come back, then i wouldn't vote for the again. As for Labour, i wouldn't vote for Labour as they are now, but say 10/20 years from now then things might be different. I happily switch parties as their policies change.

Most of my family lived through the Thatcher years and don't think they were bad. I agree with Peter's point; everyone seems to have a go at her. This will probably stimulate a flurry of negative points but I couldn't care less because from what I have researched myself, most of her policies were, in my eyes, fair and rational (apart from the abolition of apprenticeships). But, I digress. Depends what jobs your parents did. My parents have always done manual/skilled labour jobs. Infact in my father's British Rail days, when the Thatcher era was in full swing, we had to keep moving as he chasing his job, as depo by depo got closed down by the government in railway cutbacks (Thatcher government was very anti-railway), Doncaster offices closed, Sheffield, Lincoln, Retford, at one point he had to commute to York or Peterborough everyday (by rail) just to bring in the cash. Eventually he was faced with redundency and had to shift into railway crossing manufactory as a grinder. They were hard times for the skilled manual workers in the old industries (steel/mining/cloth mills etc.) who had left school without any qualifications.

"A Domiono Factum Estud Et Est Mirable in Occulis Nostris" - Elizabeth I (supposedly uttered these words in 1558 upon being told that her sister Mary Tudor had died and she was now the Queen).