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Valued Member
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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They are novel, but not my cup of tea old boy.
If we're going to talk proper English, then let's keep it real LOL... ;)
(Actually I love it when US folks try to imitate, it's rather quaint..)
They are actually just different jigsaw pieces of the same old coat-of-arms of Britain design and there is a significant lack of any other cultural themes and the absence of Britannia in particular is quite a large gap in British cultural inheritance...
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United States
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Yes, I suppose they're good enough to smash!  While they look a bit like something devised by someone "off their meds," I still find them intriguing. Probably for their novelty, and that I suspect the mint run will be short, which always gets my attention. Edited by KurtS
04/17/2008 03:30 am
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 Australia
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Yep. Old thread discussing the new coins can be found here. Didn't like 'em when I first saw 'em. Still don't like 'em. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Germany
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I got my set today, the 50p has shifted, so there is a point at the bottom rather than a flat bottom, and the date is on the back of the 20p and there are no beeds on the coin either side now.
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Australia
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G'day,
quote: "off their meds,"
that's probably it !
I was thinking -
a. work-experience kiddies, unsupervised;
b. one or more drunks;
c. April Fool's Day joke;
but I now realize that it could be -
d. ALL OF THE ABOVE.
quote: "the absence of Britannia ... is quite a large gap"
and St George, and even the dragon.
quote: "Didn't like 'em when I first saw 'em. Still don't like 'em."
- that's the kindest thing said about them, that I've heard so far.
Peter in Oz
still looking for a threepence of 1820
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United Kingdom
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Peter - my favourite was the lion..also, the Tudor rose from the once beautiful 20 pence piece is a great loss..
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Ireland
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I saw these a while back, I really dont like them, actually to be honest I am not a huge fan on the british design over the past 40 years, but still they are nice to add to a collection.
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United Kingdom
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I think they were producing better designs back when they were still minting them in silver...
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Valued Member
Ireland
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yeah, I much prefer their pre-decimal currency, whether they contained silver or not, even the common penny was a coin in its day.
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Germany
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Do you not think that people back then might have said the same thing? I think new coins are always going to be considered not as good as the old ones, but a little bit of change means there are more designs to choose from. Maybe in 40 year time everyone will be complaining about the new designs of the King Harold II coins. hehe!
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United Kingdom
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"Do you not think that people back then might have said the same thing? I think new coins are always going to be considered not as good as the old ones.."
Not really, I find it hard to believe they would have a strong feeling of nostalgia for the crude Roman coins that were produced earlier..
Hehe.. seriously, I was talking about all those coins as being on the same level i.e. silver - maybe there were some finer coins being produced at one particular time in history but they were all good in my opinion, before mass production in cu-ni or the 20th-Century...wherever you draw the line, 19th Century back to Middle Ages coins were the best..
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They look like a puzzle to me they we CW cover last week
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Posted 04/17/2008 12:36 am
