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"As Jessica opened the jar, I saw her immediately. She was literally lying there staring back at me," Literally? Wow. However did she manage to fit into a jelly bean jar? Did she have her legs spread? Was there a grassy knoll? Was the sweetshop in Roswell? I think we should be told. More worrying however, is the fact that the future Queen of England is nothing more than a jelly bean. They must have got a special licence for Westminster Abbey, I'm not sure a jelly bean ever got married there before. Will Archbishop Rowntrees Williams perform the ceremony?

Or, "we might think so, but you couldn't possibly comment", eh Declan?

not to mention a quite hideous number of JPEG artefacts all over those pictures Az.

Thanks for that link 1949 - though the webpage is very poorly written! Interestingly, they don't mention the Edward VIII 3d bits, nor the 1952 halfcrown or 1954 penny, which are famously rare too.

Yes, I'd pondered the Lavrillier connection too. Maybe the team working on those got a memo, "Hey guys, while you're at it, would you knock up a reverse die for the normal penny so we can make up sets for building openings?" Or, an even more outrageous theory : maybe the 'set completers' were normally produced on the quiet, but the Lavrillier patterns blew their cover for just that one year?

Every coin collector knows that the reason for minting 1933 pennies was so that old Georgie-boy could lay a full set of coins of the year under the foundation stone of public buildings he was opening. there were about 5 or 6, which I assume was about average for a year of his reign. So here's the thing. What about 1923 and 1924 (no pennies or 3ds), 1925 (no pennies), 1929 (no 3ds), and 1934 (no florins)? Are we to assume he didn't open any buildings in those years? Then there's 1941/2/3 (no pennies - but I'm sure there was still a building programme and a royal presence, even in the War). And all those penny-free years of the 1950s - one of those years saw the opening of the new Coventry Cathedral, and that's just for starters. Why was there only a one-year mission - 1933 - to create complete sets of coins for foundation stones?

Oh, those two 4-3 games, especially the first. Ah yes. I think you will find that City have beaten Utd several times in recent years. And I think you will also find that their ambitions are somewhat loftier. Let's see that banner come down Roll on the retirement of Fergie, Giggs, Van Der Saar, Scholes ... can't come soon enough for me.

Gary, I have found another auction result you might be interested in, described as "BMC --. F 164A. As Dies 1+C. Gouby B. Fine, extremely rare". It went for £800 with 15 bidders. Dont agree with the grading though! F164A James Workman Collection We discussed the F164A a while ago on this site... Here's a really nice example from a fellow member. Yes, I think when I sell my collection about 8 years time Colin Cooke will get first dibs. That will do a world of good for the grades (Hush ma mouth!)

Just wondering how you came to your conclusion if you have little knowledge and purely guessing, you've came up with a name already, how did you come by the name? Az, he said he has "a little knowledge" - there's a big difference between that and "little knowledge"

Wow, made in Ancient Rome? (SPQR = Senatus PopulusQue Romani ) A truly uncirculated Churchill Crown is worth approx £1. Even the truly rare VIP proof would struggle to make four figures.

Be even better if the Toon manage to sneak a point or 3 off them on Tuesday night! We can always hope... (or pray) City are in uncharted territory now. As the last point on the graph of their season shows, anything can happen and nothing can be inferred for the next game. Also, they usually conform to type and play in sky blue which is a watered down version of Stockport, Oldham, Macclesfield,... appropriately. Oh don't get me wrong - I'm only a City fan when they are playing the egregious Utd City are in uncharted territory now. As the last point on the graph of their season shows, anything can happen and nothing can be inferred for the next game. Also, they usually conform to type and play in sky blue which is a watered down version of Stockport, Oldham, Macclesfield,... appropriately. I bet the Citeeeee fans got a nose bleed going so far south, in fact i'm amazed they knew how to get to wembley its been that long They probably followed Liam and Noel

... and City dumped Utd out of the Cup which just made MY day

Aye it was the delectable Holly on my screen too!

"So Hamish, d'ye think ye could see yer way to repaying yon sovereign that I lent ye - ye've had it since last year and time is pressing on." "Nae nae Jock. Ye lent it to me THIS year. See here, I still have it, and as ye can see for yersel', it has this year's date on tae prove it."

totty? Scuse me, be back in a bit ... Oh VERY nice Mind you, I suspect Ena Sharples would look sexy compared to that "oil painting" Michael Darke (quite put me off my cuppa).

totty? Scuse me, be back in a bit ...

Well, from Rainham, the nearest will be Bexley (in Bexleyheath) or Essex (in Chelmsford)... contact details for both can be found on their websites as below: Bexley - click here Essex - click here How about closest to Stroud/Cirencester, Mr Cerbera? Soiren! Where I spent a few of my teenage years :-) Happily this was the late 60s when Gloucs girls wore their skirts VERY short

Pressed in a vice perhaps?

Not more than £50, or bugger all if it was my money! I don't think ebay will slow Declan for the simple reason that there are too many buyers on there with too little knowledge, or who are too stupid, or too idle to try and source better quality coins from sources other than ebay. And far from "Oh they will get their fingers burned when they come to sell", they will compound the vicious circle by selling on eBay where the same ignorant, stupid and idle crowd will get them their money back and more, thus confirming them in their view of having paid the "right" price in the first place. What chance have genuine dealers, selling good quality stock, with overheads, trying to make a living, got? I suppose many of them will end up selling on eBay...

Go for it I did Excellent! If Lydia makes her fortune from those, then the Republic can't be far orf

But they do exactly what the Royal Mint does by the sound of it I'll have a gross of those please Declan!

as a photographer who knows a little about cameras all i can say is Me too! (No camera without Macro mode should be used to photo coins ;-)

It has obvious similarities to a medieval hammered penny, but it's clearly not a monarch coin, probably not even English. At an educated guess it could be a Continental 'jeton' or possibly a Crusader piece. The cross is a 'short cross' type, with characteristic serifs you don't see on English pennies. Sorry, I can't be any more informative than that.

Danny I do this for a living and the best advice I can give you is try buying and selling something that you know about. Most dealers (the good ones at least) started off as collectors. You need the knowledge you gain as a collector to become a half decent dealer. As a novice you will not have the first idea about grades, rarity, state of preservation (cleaned, whizzed, tooled etc), value, desirability or authenticity. You need to know all of those to stand any chance at all of even breaking even. Ebay is already cluttered with people selling coins that they know nothing about and the auction rooms already have far too many novices paying silly money for boxes full of unsaleable crap. Sorry to put a dampener on your plans but if you are serious you need to start a collection first. Yes, excellent advice. I married reasonable knowledge to a far-from natural ability as an entrepreneur - and I did no more than 'tick over'. You may be a natural entrepreneur but you don't yet have the knowledge and experience you really need. The best dealers have "the knowledge" AND they are able to 'wheel and deal' with the best of them. Collecting will start to give you the knowledge at least.

Oh dear. Look, before you spend a whole of time and energy doing more pictures, I have to tell you that those coins are in pretty low grade (i.e. less than Fine, ,considered the minimum collectable grade). To get an idea, click on the www.predecimal.com button top left below the logo, to the left of 'Forums'. That takes you to the home page. Again near the top left you will see a 'Coins for sale' button - click that, then 'British predecimal coins', and have a wander through the various categories. That should give you some idea of what the upper grades look like. Feel free to come back and ask us again.