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Probably not as much as they should but I doubt if they get off scot free. Anyway Salmon will just up the oil output to make up any shortfall...wait a minute he doesn't own any oil it's owner by the comanies that extract it. All that he gets, and the UK government for that matter, is the tax on the oil companies. And the production level is set by international agreement anyway. Also if production was increased the price would go down, set by the spot market, and the gross tax would likely not change. He keeps banging on about oil revenues - but do we know how much of the stuff is actually in Scotland's territorial waters, rather than out in the North Sea or actually off the English coast? Of course, then there's the gas, but Scotland has ALL of that ... it's travelling around campaigning hard for a Yes vote so it can be Prime Minister, President, Chief Willy of the Clans, Wholly Rude, or whatever takes its fancy.

Thank you! I must admit the cupro-nickel colour adds a nice contrast to the rows of lustered bronze in the tray. You obviously don't suffer from OCD

I know diddleysquat about hammered, but even I can see that's a whole lot better than F - I'd say VF myself, what do you think fellas?

Geordie's 'My Gallery' link (above the Omicoin one). You mean ... people use their Galleries here for non-coin pics?

They are the Sovereign's arms, England's is the three lions. so if we assume Lizzie stays queen of Scotland, they wont change Interesting situation that. The Scottish lion predates the Union, in fact goes back to James I (who was also James VI of Scotland and united the two crowns). Before that, in Elizabeth's time, there was no trace of Scotland in the Royal Arms. If Scotland votes Yes, what will the Queen decide to do about the Royal Arms? After all, there's no Maple Leaf or Emu or any other colony or Commonwealth member represented, so there's no reason for the Scottish lion to stay. And going on from that - who is responsible for the Union Flag, the Royal Family or Parliament? If the latter, then the blue will vanish from the flag, leaving it boringly red and white (though satisfyingly the Chelsea and Everton colours will have been eliminated ). Will that then mean the Australians have to change their flag too? Endless complications.

What's cats to do with coin pix?

I still have my old Ion Obelisk amp - yes, I know, it's solid state, but it was designed to reproduce the sound of a valve amplifier I have a strange feeling that in this digital age, valve amplifiers will survive .. just as vinyl has. Funnily enough, the digital era has spawned a whole new set of new camera types : the "bridge", the superzoom P&S, mirrorless interchangeable lens systems, "enthusiast" compacts (like the Fuji X100 and the Lumix LX7). You could always get the band to sign your memory stick

None of us has so far discussed THE most important thing. What will replace the Scottish lion in the coat of arms on British coins? My vote would be for the Welsh dragon, a creature every bit as mythical as PG Wodehouse's Scottish ray of sunshine.

Welcome to the forums Chris I have absolutely no interest in medieval hammered but there's some here who do! I do like Roman and ancients as well as more modern milled stuff. You'll enjoy it here, I'm sure.

See, the Scots need to take a reality check. What typifies the whole Salmon attitude thing is :- there's no more Protestant nation in Europe, witness the "John Knox" Presbyterians, and their extreme cousins the "Wee Free"s; yet those same Protestants hanker after the "Prince over the Water" aka Bonnie Prince Charlie, a dyed-in-the-wool Roman Catholic.

It's toothed on my screen.

We can always trump him by setting up as a new member called Aaadvark

Ah, but they can be heard.

If you're talking about "silver" post-1816 coins that are actually copper washed with silver, these are actually not fakes but forgeries produced at the time. Collectors know all about these (indeed our own seuk has made an expert study of them), and they should be classed as 'items of interest' and not as counterfeits. And in the US, GIII copper "evasions" from the mid-18th Century are widely collected and valued. If they are actually modern reproductions and sold as such, I don't see that any law has been broken if they are not misrepresented. They may be sold described as modern repros by the manufacturer but, as they don't carry any mark making it clear as to what they are, I suppose problems could arise further down the line? Indeed they could - but that's the responsibility of a future 'rogue trader', not of eBay or an honest seller. After all, bottles of Chanel are sold every day without regard to the Del Boys of this world who will go around collecting up the empties, filling them with cheap scent, and flogging them out of a suitcase on Peckham High Street ("fell off the back of a lorry, John, take it from me..").

He's had a sex change too

iTunes is a music shop run by those chappies at Apple (the computer company not the Beatles' record company..) who purvey digital (don't ask) music by many popular beat combos from the past to the present day. If you think of it as a great big HMV store in the sky you won't go far wrong.

If you're talking about "silver" post-1816 coins that are actually copper washed with silver, these are actually not fakes but forgeries produced at the time. Collectors know all about these (indeed our own seuk has made an expert study of them), and they should be classed as 'items of interest' and not as counterfeits. And in the US, GIII copper "evasions" from the mid-18th Century are widely collected and valued. If they are actually modern reproductions and sold as such, I don't see that any law has been broken if they are not misrepresented.

Ouch. Don't mention that particular one to Dave. Sore point.

You can't count Stuart - it's around 3 and a half years!

I agree about Atlantic and Stax soul (and Motown!!), Gram Parsons, Steve Earle (seen him twice ), Trojan and all roots reggae, baroque classical, early music, then Gershwin, Britten, Vaughn-Williams etc. Early Yes is pretty good - anything before Rick Wakeman joined We have to part company on opera - my pet hate. Except things like Carl Orff 'Carmina Burana', which I love

Well, bits of Aftermath, more or less the whole of Beggars Banquet, most of Let It Bleed, the whole of Sticky Fingers, and bits of Exile On Main Street.. I was never a big Stones fan. Dare I ask what your list would be? (Mine would be longer but I ran out of energy )

No. Enlighten me. April issue. Answers by March 15th…. Not a typo at all - bear in mind that November's issue of MOJO will drop onto my doormat before the end of September 'Twas always thus. If you look at any January edition of Coin Monthly, it will be full of Xmas gift ideas. As to the quiz, the only one I'm certain of is that A is Victoria Mojo. Are you a bit of a rocker then Chris? Who do you listen to? Steely Dan, Goldfrapp, Mercury Rev, Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Girls At Our Best, Robert Wyatt, Afro-Celt Sound System, The Who, Genesis, Captain Beefheart, The Zombies, Zero 7, Oscar Peterson, Frank Zappa, Cole Porter, Amy McDonald, Amy Winehouse, The Beat, The Specials, Madness, Kevin Ayers, Caravan, Pink Floyd, JJ Cale, Buena Vista Cubans, Misty In Roots, Easy Star All Stars, King Tubby, John Grant, Midlake, Eno, Yes (earlier), The Buzzcocks, Chic, Odyssey, Sister Sledge, Culture Club, Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Dean Martin / Frank Sinatra / Sammy Davis Junior, Dire Straits, The Doors, Dusty Springfield, Earth Wind & Fire, Ennio Morricone, Enigma, John Barry, Field Music, Fleet Foxes, The Faces, Beverley Knight ... dammit that's enough looking through my collection on iTunes

Hi Chris. There are plenty of examples of this one in the archives, so not simply a 'clutter' anomaly. London Coins sold a ropey fine one some years ago. C Cooke had one. Our fellow member who has the farthing site lists it. So very much a recognised variety. It's true it may not be that the G is over an O (but it certainly looks like it is), however it certainly is over another letter. I must admit, I hadn't spotted evidence of a serif. I'll have a look and report back. On your photograph, the top right of the G curves down, like a C - however, there's another feature behind it that continues straight on; that to my eyes looks like a serif. Then if you go down from the top right, to the horizontal cross-stroke of the G, between the two there is a down stroke that exactly matches the vertical on the left, that probably has been thought of as the left inner of an O (but it may not be?). I've had a another look using my loupe. The 'blob' at the end of the G (upper right) is just the serif at the end of the letter, not something lying beneath. The downstroke of the underlying letter curves out and in again as would an O. If it were the right vertical stroke of a U it would be more upright. We may have to wait for Colin's input on this one…. No, I don't mean the blob of metal that makes people think of an O - I mean underlying that, and fractionally to the left : there's a vertical, straight, downstroke exactly matching the vertical downstroke inside the left hand curve of the G.

Was that a collection of BU individual currency issues Rob? If so, that would indeed be a dedicated fan of decimals : their existence is vastly complicated by the issue of proofs for the general public of every decimal coin ever issued since 1971, and BU specimen sets for every year since 1982. The presence of all these sets on the market seems to complicate things somewhat, and makes the collection of decimals rather different to what went before. (I wonder if there are any pre-1971 decimal proofs, i.e. for the 50p, 10p and 5p? Now THOSE would be very rare and would attract even non-decimal collectors.)

You've ignored the fact that 99,999 of them are 1967 pennies, 1981 or 1965 crowns, or "ultra rare" washers... I haven't ignored or assumed anything, just observed that there are a record number of listings and hope it might mean some increased interest in the hobby ... or of course it might mean nothing at all ... in fact I suspect if I was to do some further analysis it would show that most of the increase is down to decimal listings, especially 50ps, and that the quality of the grades listed was at an all time low! It was just an observation, nothing more. I wasn't being entirely serious!