Sylvester

Which is why i think in practice a democracy is a bad thing cos it potentially lets anyone into politics. And i mean anyone. Great idea in theory maybe, but is it really better? or is democracy just what governments keep telling the populace what it needs and wants as a way of justifying their own positions?

Got it in one. Someone stated earlier that if Blair had told the truth about the real reasonwe had gone to war then he would not have had the majority of support. Question is even when he lied about WMD did he have a majority support then? Does Blair listen to the majority? Now let me see what do they call it when a person rules by the minority over the general will of the majority? Despotism? Absolutism? Dictatorship? They say he refuses to resign, if amajority expressed a wish for him to step aside and he refused (which i think he would), then what do you get? Democracy? The many have no power in this country any more, when he's in he's in and he won't go. Impeachment anyone?

BU can have minor imperfections on the coin, whereas fleur de coin has to be absolutely perfect with no fingerprints or scratches. So brilliant uncirculated is inferior to FDC. I don't think he meant it like that Oli. I may be wrong but i think he meant to point out that FDC is a grade really only used with proof coins and therefore BU would be most suitable in this instance.

You presume they're located in the UK...

Yes it was Lizzie ironically with curly hair if i remember correctly, so maybe it was Frizzie? Yeah it was very very serious in it's approach and to be honest it used to bore me rigid, it was actually Margaret Thatcher's favourite news programme. Which leads me onto Wacaday which was aired as part of TVAM, now i know Maggie Thatcher got hit over the head by the mallet and i'm wondering if it happened on TVAM and if so why did he not hit her harder?

Oh i remember those days! I always used to do my homeworks the morning before they were due in, i used to get good marks too. I used to have from 6am to 8am sat at my grandmothers with nothing to do but watch TVAM/GMTV (Depending upon what year we are on), GMTV was a vast improvement. But yeah so i used to get my homeworks done then. I used to do them during dinner time too rather than the night before. But i never had dinner anyway.

When do you do most of your posting? I'm online usually during two perids of the day on weekdays. The morning shift before i set off anytime from 6.15-7.15am. The afternoon shift 6pm-10.30/11.30pm (then i call it a night) Most of the posting is usually done in the morning. Sometimes very rarely i will post between 8am and 6pm but i usually have to be away from home where i can get internet access cos i'm on pay per minute at home during that time. It's only "free" after 6! Weekends are free and thus i am on intermittantly all day on Saturdays and Sundays, Sundays particularly so, as i spend alot of time online on sundays.

Depends where you are. Most of us are in England. I never bothered altering my timezone the last time we changed the clocks so it'll soon be right again. Having said that though i am one of the early morning posters on here, not unusual to see some of my posts timed at half six in the morning. (the time reported will be 1 hour out though, so it might say 5.30 instead, which is the time when i'm just getting up).

Yeah Chris autograph it!

Very British reply! I might actually have 2, one to write in, one to not use and keep on the shelf for future reference. My catalogues always fall apart in the end!

hmm i'll have one of each!

Can i have a double T copy also?

What do you mean post so early? It's not early...

I hate football and i hate beer even more. I more of a whisky drinker when i'm inclined towards alcohol, which is an extremely rare occurence.

Yes it is of interest, and i'm glad you solved that one! I had wondered if it was a copy, but i wasn't totally sure. I mean Scot in the legend was rather puzzelling as no real English penny of that period has it!

Don't buy any copper or base metal coins. If routing for silver go for the ones with a high silver content. Failing that gold is a much safer option where you'd not have to worry too much. Copper and iron coins are a no no.

There are many types of collectors; *Investors *Geniune Collectors *Grayscale collectors (they are genuine but they want a profit too) *Dealers (some have personal collections too) Those above are the main types, below is a list of minor type; *Date set collectors (these people cannot focus on one denomination and usually not on one reign but they like the idea of one of each from each reign). *Denomination collectors (these can be dull people, they get totally engrossed with one denomination, say half farthings, and to them all the others might as not exist, and they certainly know nothing about say halfcrowns). *Monarch collectors (these guys can be duller still or maybe not as dull? They pick a monarch and they collect everything of that monarch and no one else gwets a look in, but they do get plenty of denominations in there) *Monarch/denom collectors (these guys are really dull, or really specialist... they collect such things as William IV Half Sovereigns only). *Monarchs collectors (These are adventurous or mad and go for one of every monarch... i'll admit to being on of these!) *Date collectors (collect coins by date in sequence) *Type collectors (collect only major types forget trivialities such as dates) And that's just the tip of the iceberg, before we get to 'error' collector's, 'unusual coin' collectors and plain old hoarders that keep anything that's a metal disc, or even a non metal disc. *Collector by metal (I've looked into this, but how about on coin of every elemental metal, platinum, palladium, silver, copper, lead, iron, tin, gold etc.)

Yes disdain was the wrong word but when i was writing it the word i really wanted "indifferent" was not forthcoming, and i think disdain is a nice word so although semantically inaccurate it just had to be used! I like Geo. IV/Will IV coins very much. But it's not the art that does it. Eye appeal to me is the tone or the colour of the coin (bluish slate grey), and high relief perhaps with complex designs. As long as it look regal. As for hammered well it's history that made me into a coin collector and history remains my favourite of the two, so the idea of a coin minted around in say 1348/9 with the initial outbreak of the Black Death for instance; regardless of the appearance of the coin is what does it for me. Coins that have been there and seen it all.

Not as far as i am aware. I believe they were all in BU sets.

It would be the first time i've over budgeted on one coin and i've left myself short and thus had to sell another coin so that i can still get the train fare. Doesn't happen often but it has happened.

Not a case of too much money... just that i like to own expensive things. Not so much investing for profit but investing for my own pleasure and the coins hold their own monetary value. Also useful if i have to sell a coin to fund something i want one that's gonna sell, so i need quality and i want something with a retail value of at least £100 so that when i sell it i can just sell one rather than 20 coins.

I generally don't like spending under £20 for a coin. I like expensive...

What a question... How to answer, hmm that's a good one. For me it's history and like someone already stated i don't like all the coins looking too much alike where possible. Victoria is all good but it's too long. I like short brief and snappy reigns. 3 coins of one denomination for a full set of that monarch and you've done with them and you can brush them under the carpet. James II's reign is like a dream as is William and Mary's. I like Oli have this burning desire to collect something James II eventually. My main attraction is gold and silver, but tin will always get my attention and how. Tin's not everyone's favourite metal but i likes it! I'm practically the total opposite of Geoff. He like big, i like smaller/medium, he prefers the post 1816 period, i don't care for it. He feels nothing but disdain for early hammered, i thrive on the stuff. Stick me in a room full of Stephen pennies and i'm in heaven, totally. But medieval gold is what is really driving me on at the minute... hammered gold nothing like it.

Now that is a description i like!

No just take the 's' off and you'll get what alot of them are!