Emperor Oli

You said it looked as good as new....

It can't look as good as new if it was a fine. Polishing doesn't restore detail, it just makes it superficially shiny.

I agree with Sylvester on the Yorkshire accent, I don't like it either. The Lancashire one too is annoying, but nowhere near as bad as the Yorkshire one!

Look at the price now (as of 11:25).........£28.05

French is the language of diplomacy though! I would rather learn a language fluently so I wouldn't have to tolerate the foreginer's awful accents - they would have to tolerate mine! I speak German, French (although like Sylvester I am slightly rusty), Spanish, Latin (nowhere near fluently but I can fluff my way through) and the barebones of Russian (my friend is learning it at the minute, so I read the books he's got on it!)

I used to have a Cartwheel penny but it started showing signs of verdigris so I sold it

If I could polish some of my coins from fine to BU, I wouldn't think twice!

Your Protestantism definition is taking it to the extreme - Puritanism - isn't it?

I idn't like Y7/8 history but then when Y9 started and Lizzie came along, the modern period started. I agree that the Industrial Revolution is boring, at least the 18th century part. I enjoyed the 19th century Industrial Revolution because my forefathers owned a mill at the time. World War I we didn't do too much on, but in GCSE we do all the peace treaties etc. which I find incredibly interesting. Also, I can't wait to do the Depression and the WSC! The schools get a choice on which syllabus to pursue and ours chose some ridiculous parts like "The Role of Women in the 20th century" and "Vietnam". Who really (a Brit at any rate) wants to learn about an American war when we could be doing stuff like, well, I don't know, but anything else is infinitely more interesting. I'd have rather done the History of Medicine. Anything including and post-Elizabeth is my passion. We're doing astronomy at the minute in Physics and how the Big Bang wasn't actually a bang etc. I find Physics intolerable, except POWER! I adore learning about power plants - how the generators and turbines work, the different fuels used, non-renewable and renewable etc. I read a book a few months ago on nuclear fusion and its application in power stations which interested me.

I used to like it but now I'm doing GCSEs, empirical formulae come into it, so do alkanes, alkenes, alcohols, carboxylic aciids. Give me history - or biology - anyday.

History!

Super, I downloaded it last night and flicked through it but, alas for me, there were no typos I spotted! When is it due for publising?

My online tag is "your mother", so the events come up like "Shania Twain was killed by your mother" or "your mother was killed by unknown" etc. Wolfenstein Enemy Territory is what I've been on a lot recently. It's free because it was an expansion pack in progress, but the publishers cancelled it so the developers just released the multiplayer bit for free!

Looks lovely - I would definitely bid.

Well worn seems to be an understatement. Hows about a rubbish grade to begin with, worsened with the aggressive polishing and god knows what instrument that has been taken to it?

We know what BU means!

Oh I thought you were super-6d intelligent!

£230,000! A new record for British coin at auction!

I'd call it fine, and I agree with Geoff that it's too expensive. As Chris says too, the toning is really quite ugly. Wait for a nicer specimen to come along, it will enhance your collection better than the eBay piece.

To rival the Yearbook, there would need to be articles in it. Perhaps next year we could write pieces to be submitted? Sylvester could possibly adapt his history of the milled 6d etc.

Excellent - just how I imagined it would be. Getting a graphic designer really paid off.

But surely they were American companies slabbing? Probably bought off a Yank, I don't know any other nationality that pursues slabbing with such a fervent zest.

Let's see how long it is until it ends up slabbed I was looking on an American site at British coins and opened up a picture of an Edward VII Maundy set - every coin was individually slabbed. I just stared and thought that slabbing them individually is the antithesis to what the maundy coins are - a set. It splits them up and makes them look plain odd - plus, what use does the box have for them now?!!

I thought I recognised the name, and I have had dealings with him before. It went smoothly as far as I can remember.

A few of my friends were in a restaurant this afternoon and I was telling them about the very same things - the fake Welsh £1s.