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I noticed this facility when trawling through the Royal Mint website recently, and thought I would punt some reasonably standard questions to see what the response was. Lo and behold within just a couple of days, I got a response. here is a copy and paste of the e mail exchange, minus my details:- Think up some useful questions guys. It appears the world is your oyster !!! Freedom of information link

You're probably right, but it wouldn't do any harm to test the waters - always assuming there's anybody there who has the remotest clue as to how to follow up on actually answering the question in a meaningful way. I tell a lie - link

Now the EU have advised that they will grant an extension if it looks like MP's will support the deal.

Indeed - and I think it's disappeared rather than moved.

Also, not wishing to be pedantic, but it's actually the first N of penny.

I wish I'd asked about the 1952 when I made a Freedom of Information Request in 2011. Joseph Payne, the then Assistant Curator, said with regard to the 1954, that he was unable to say for certain whether only one had survived from a trial run of several hundred (the rest of which were presumably melted down). That post is here Unfortunately, I don't think he's there any more. He supplied a very cogent reply within a few days. The last two I've sent weren't replied to for several weeks and were pretty awful - the respondents clearly didn't have a clue how to answer my questions.

Although I think Stu may have been wondering whether the coin had been certified as authentic by the Royal Mint. As am I. Just seems odd that one 1952 would be minted. Maybe a batch were produced and then melted down because it was realised they weren't needed or authorised. But for whatever reason one survived. Like the 1954 there seems to be very little traceable back history. Or in the case if the 1954, big gaps.

Problem being that only one completist can have it.

That was the very word I used, Jon, when he delivered the cabinet yesterday afternoon "chuffed to bits with it".

Excellent point.

Pure quality. I would 100% recommend him - and he's not as expensive as the people who took over from Peter Nichols. He's not quick. I ordered my cabinet on 12th January, so it took him over 2 months. But well worth the wait.

Probably a lot of then weren't even born at the time, and are just spouting unthought out rubbish without ever checking the facts from the time. If they were old enough to have been there at the time, there's even less excuse for not remembering - for example - the 1973 oil price hike.

Can anybody here afford it?

Well if the bids start racking up, then we'll know several have fallen for it. He should make absolutely sure before stating what he thinks it is, or else say he is not certain. I will allow him a little leeway in the honesty stakes, as I know the 1861 die combinations are not the easiest to get the measure of.

....I nearly did....

So anyway I did decide to order a new cabinet from Rob Davis. I ordered a single door cherry wood version with small trays. Rob actually delivered it in person today. I have to say I'm really pleased with it, and it immediately solves an increasing space problem. Somewhat irritatingly, I've misplaced a coin I bought recently - the 1913 F174. Christ knows where that's got to. Anyway, here are pictures:-

Ah, a 1933 penny. The description and back story is amusing. link

Irrigation?

Simple. When you click on the chain box to insert a link, you obviously copy and paste the web address in the top box. Then if you leave the bottom box blank, all the link text you insert in the top box will appear in your post. To avoid this, you type something in the bottom box, like "link" or whatever, and that is what will then appear in the post, as your link to click on.

Very interesting - the coin would have been in circulation for 29 years at that point, and given that pennies in those days would have seen orders of magnitude more circulation than pennies these days, that level of wear looks plausible. Somebody will undoubtedly buy it. How much for is anybody's guess. What slightly surprises me is that the family are willing to let it go - that raises slight suspicions in my mind that it might all be a fake story. BY the way, was that an actual sketch from Only Fools and Horses? If so, i'm even more suspicious.

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It's coin collecting Jim, but not as we know it.....

van Dijk is a world class player. Defender, creator and goal scorer. The entire process has degenerated into a total farce. I don't know about just TM losing her authority, I'd personally have to question whether the entire assembled parliament has lost both authority and any semblance of national credibility.

Cigarette vending machines - wow. Imagine the furore if they were ever re-introduced. But they clearly satisfied a need at those times when smokers were desperate for a cigarette and the shop was closed. Of course underage kids would also easily be able to buy them from the machine as well. I've seen one of those 5p or shilling meters at a working museum somewhere. If I remember correctly, you pushed the coin into a tight slot as far as it would go, where it would hold, until you turned a small lever clockwise to drop the coin in.

Yes, that's interesting. You'd have to immediately envisage the difference between the cost of the item, and the amount of change/notes proffered by the customer - and obviously it would very often be for articles costing under one pound/ten shillings. So if they gave you 4 shillings for something costing 3/11, it would just be the one penny. Slightly more complicated, but as soon as you were in the mindset of 12 pennies to the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound, you'd be OK. Were prices still marked up using halfpennies at that time? I've seen on old films the way change would be given to customers, with the shopkeeper handing back change and as he did so, verbally counting it up from the cost of the item, to the amount handed over by the customer. That way there could be no argument - very effective.