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And bought by all our Russian customers

The states quarters were interesting at first, but after awhile you lose interests in them. I don't even save the new ones when they come out anymore. The Presidential $1 coins mean nothing to me either. Frankly some of them are commemorating individuals not worthy of such. For instance Richard Nixon, for whom stuff is still being revealed about his chicanery even most recently.

Then you have some counties which are independent in spirit, say Cornwall. For they even have their own language out there. And even occasionally their very own sterling notes. I hate the state quarters, being near to Canada I confuse them with Canadian coins, which I try to avoid like the plaque since they are worth less than a US 25¢ coin.

From the cngcoins.com site, this is the Triton sale they are having in January, there are several tin coins, I like this one best though.

I made the switch about 6 months ago. I like Mozilla Firefox better for many things, for one posting images in forum messages is much easier since you can copy the image location on the right click of your mouse button. I am still not quite sure how this is done in IE. Another thing, most popups are designed for IE, since it is far and away more used than FF. So I have yet to see a popup in FF, with IE despite having a popup blocker I get them still, especially on CNN.com and BBC.CO.UK etc. All in all once you get used to it, and it is quick to learn, it is much easier to use than that Microsoft product.

You guys are aging yourselves with all this discussion of games etc that are well before my time.

My best badly listed was a poor image of a Scottish £1 note from 1961, I bought the note for £5, it is worth about £150 as it is a trial issue.

I received an auction catalog from Alan Davisson yesterday, he has a Petition crown in the auction closing in February, you can see the auctions at Britishcoins.com. There is also a nice Scottish £20 coin from the reign of James VI, but a bit rich for my blood.

I use Mozilla Firefox for a browser, not IE, it is easy to save a link to a photo location in FF, just click the right button on the mouse and save image location as and then post the link to the image via the image link thingy on the menu bar in Predecimal. IE is not easy to do this with, in fact I am not sure how it works or if it does in IE. I have been using FF now for about 6 months and like it a lot better navigationally and functionally than IE. So for Hussulo's lovely Noble, I can do the following:

Isn't there registration approval? I see spam just about everytime I go on here.

I seriously believe especially with China and Russia that not only is spam and hacking not discouraged, but that in fact in the pursuit of having a means of destructive capability on an otherwise unimaginable scale that the governments of those nations might actually be encouraging it elicitly of course.

It is this guy we are up against. Captain Kung Pao from N. Korea.

We say here, C новым годом! Happy New Year

Of course it would be busy on Christmas day and the Boxing holiday also, since they do not have such nonsensical holidays in Spamland.

Go with your own grade and nothing else, nothing can be more true than your own opin of a coin.

Actually since I collect Russian/Siberian/Ukrainian coins I often trade with collectors over there, and have had great experiences everytime, and wonderful surprises like BU Nikolai II coins from the 114-1916 era show up out of nowhere.

The Brussels hoard of 1908 is still making it's way into the market, I have several Scottish coins and a few English coins from this hoard. Curiously these coins all have a curious tone to them, as though some environmental factor caused their colouring. The Cnut pennies are an example of market oversaturation however, they came out all at the same time and did not permit even a modest growth of interest in them. 10 yrs ago they were tough to find, now they are all over the place and they are cheap.

Wouldn't touch with a 10 metre pole.

I don't believe one off metal detector finds have a whole lot of an effect on market prices for coins, even if the collecting base is somewhat specialised and limited. However finds of small hoards do if they are all released at once. Example the famous Colchester hoard is still being released, and coins from the Brussels hoard of 1908 are still making their way out of vaults and into collectors hands. However the finds of Cnut pennies are a bad example, where they all got released at once, and the prices of the coins declined.

Actually Sceattas are not commonly found even with a metal detector, unless they are found in a small quantity with others primarily because of their dimunitive size.

Chances are someone plated it for novelty purposes, then it got spent.

Sorry Peter, your sterling cheques do absolutely nothing for me, please just send in sterling cash.

Peter please send my £75000 in sovereigns only to:....

Oh great, now I am going to have to break out the 1970 proof sets to find out

If I could get rid of my 1/2d's as a 2P, I would be pleased as punch.