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I'd never noticed before, I have to say. Another point of general interest, why don't we ever see daffodils representing the Welsh contingent?

That's rubbish! He used to dip it in mead and dangle it over Henrietta's chest during court parties...the fairest skin in all the land!

I love it!

Would hardly call that worn, Scott? Nice coin!

I'm all over the place at the moment, Peter, hardly know my stern from my bows! Must try harder!

Oh, sorry, JM, I just saw the title and leapt! Oooops, I'll get my coat!

There's a whole load of new posts just uploaded on my phone that are days old...could be my reception?Anyway, that's got to be a normal inverted 1 over 1, surely?

Any chance you could try and resend that E1 image of your's, it never came through, and I'd very much appreciate a copy of it?

The best excuse I've come across for pi**ing on the seat!

Not a shilling, and NOT a great example...tooled! 321529941750

I doubt if mine is as long as your's, Peter? Thanks, Gents & Lady!

Ah, the wonders of Facebook, TG! Thanks for the build-up everyone, my birthday's today (23rd)! Happy belated Birthday, Declan, enjoy the jump! I prefer flying planes to jumping out of them. I forgot whose quote it was: "why anyone would want to jump out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft is beyond me"!

I understand your anxiety, OJ, I've been there myself! Get a bag of old coins and have a play with these things, resolve it for yourself...no amount of words will convince you otherwise, you know that!

Oh, hell, I love them all, how can you ever decide on aesthetics alone, they're all diamonds? It all comes down to budget, otherwise we'd have them all, an entire museum of the bloody things!

You just don't see these little fellas looking quite as balanced as this, the grade's irrelevant with that kind of eye-appeal IMHO!

I think HP's are very much underrated, they're an extremely elegant denomination! I love them, can't understand those that pass them by?

I've always Iikened the Anglo/Scottish relationship to football. In the past I have always thought of Scotland 'as the next team to support' IF, sorry, when, England are out of the competition! I can honestly say, I have never found a like mind in Scotland! I have some extremely good Scottish friends but, and they would all agree with me, the animosity towards all things English are conditionings established at birth. I do think, however, and this is the bit that disturbs me most, is, up until this point, all that I would call healthy balanced individuals (English citizens), have only ever thought of this antipathy as a novel cultural difference, and nothing more! I've a terrible feeling that the less balanced out there could very quickly conjour up a resentment to the historical war-like jibes, that equals the like of something we haven't seen for quite a few centuries! If peace and good health could be found in division, then great, and long live the process! I just can't see it and, it seems to me, neither can anyone else, other than my hot-blooded friends, of course!

100% agree with everything you have said, Rob...it's also really surprising to think that the first decimals are now only 6 1/2 years' shy of being half a century old!

Brilliant! Check the description too! 111451189237 Too cheap IMO!

Well said, Sir!

I've had a fair bit of fun with them, at a time I could do little else! It's the only opportunity to 'feel' what it was like for all those 'boys' on here who collected from change ions ago! Second only to squatting in rubble and playing machine guns in the early forties. Good fun, mostly, for the kids at least!I believe Christmas was better appreciated back then too! http://www.phespirit.info/montypython/four_yorkshiremen.htmBrilliant MR, thoroughly enjoyed that read, being an Am Dram an' all!

I've had a fair bit of fun with them, at a time I could do little else! It's the only opportunity to 'feel' what it was like for all those 'boys' on here who collected from change ions ago! Second only to squatting in rubble and playing machine guns in the early forties. Good fun, mostly, for the kids at least! I believe Christmas was better appreciated back then too!

In the absence of any coins or things to enquire about I come here! Kate Bush on BBC4 (still) brilliant...can't believe Babooshka was 1978! Top lady! (Tottie)

Yes, I don't see any "A" in that over-punch! For me an "I" over a tumbled T...the A in the rest of the legend, and normally, has the thick arm to its right leg, notwithstanding the fact that the general look of the serifs are wrong! Nice coin regardless!