UK 2010 Special Issues
Ice Torch
Because the Queen said so:
"for the reverse a design which depicts a repeating pattern of the
current identity of Girlguiding UK, accompanied by the inscription
“CELEBRATING ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF GIRLGUIDING UK” and the denomination
“50 PENCE”. The coins shall have a plain edge."
See: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/59217/notices/950736/from=2009-06-01;to=2009-10-31;all=fifty+pence
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Also found: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/59215/notices/948884/from=2009-06-01;to=2009-10-31;all=five+pounds
“RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY”
"The design of the said coins shall be as follows:
‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “ELIZABETH
· II · D · G · REG · F · D · ” and the date “2010”, and for the
reverse a design featuring a crown, a spray of oak leaves, interlinked
“C”s, the date “1660”, the inscription “RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY”
and the denomination “FIVE POUNDS”. The platinum, gold and silver
coins will have a plain edge and in incuse letters the inscription “A
QUIET AND PEACEABLE POSSESSION”, while the cupro-nickel coin will have
a graining upon the edge’."
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Also found Florence Nightingale: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/59217/pages/17995
"The design of the said coins shall be as follows:
‘For the obverse impression Our effigy with the inscription “ ·
ELIZABETH · II · D · G · REG · FID · DEF · ”, and the date “2010”,
and for the reverse a design depicting the pulse of a patient being
taken, surrounded by the inscription “1820 – FLORENCE
NIGHTINGALE – 1910” and the denomination “TWO POUNDS”.
The reverse design is set against a background texture of lines
symbolising rays of light from a lamp. The said coins will have a
graining upon the edge and in incuse letters the inscription “150
YEARS OF NURSING”, save for the gold coin where the incuse
letters will be accompanied by a plain edge’."
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So, we have Girl Guides on the 50p, Florence Nightingale on the two
pound coin, and the Restoration for the five pound coin.
oly
> I'm telling you this before the official announcements. How do I know?
> Because the Queen said so:
>
> "for the reverse a design which depicts a repeating pattern of the
> current identity of Girlguiding UK, accompanied by the inscription
> “CELEBRATING ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF GIRLGUIDING UK” and the denomination
> “50 PENCE”. The coins shall have a plain edge."
>
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> Also found: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/59215/notices/948884/from=2009...
I am very pleased with the general idea of the Five Pounds crown-sized
coin for the Restoration of Charles II. The fact that it will be 350
years in 2010 hadn't occured to me - and I am a big reader of
biographies on the Merry Monarch.
I have two better than average crowns (but not top-notch) and a top-
notch fourpence of Charles II - had them for many years now. I wish I
had bought more examples before they became so expensive.
oly
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> - Show quoted text -
I have numerous books on Nell Gwynn too. The idiots at the local city
library had three or four biographies of Madame Nelly, books that I
dispaired of ever finding or owning copies of. Then one year all four
books were in the annual "Friends of the Library" book sale,
"deaccessioned". Fifty cents apiece. I pounced at their stupidity.
98%+ of "professional" Librarians are freakin' idiot bastards.
oly
Mr. Jaggers
Nice blanket condemnation of a noble profession, from one who I'll bet has
no training whatsoever as a "libarian" and who therefore has no concept
whatsoever of the issues that face the builders and caretakers of
collections. Ask someone from the LOC how many of their books are locked
away in storage because there isn't enough shelf space to house them and
make them available. It will stagger your imagination. The government
considers it a public mandate to provide that storage space, as the LOC is
the repository of all copyrighted works.
Smaller libraries don't have access to the real estate necessary to house
everything that they have ever owned. Weeding a collection is a respectable
way to address the reality of a limited physical plant. Books that may have
been very popular in 1909 are not likely to have any circulation at all in
2009. In fact, unless the title is a barnburner of a classic, a librarian
has to make the decision to deaccession items that go begging for a certain
amount of time. When I was a teenager way back in nineteen mumbly-three the
North Lugburz Public Library had a fairly large collection of LPs in its
music section. Do you really think that they should still have all those
records? Do you still have all the LPs that you ever owned? Why not? How
cheaply did you let them go? Half a buck apiece? You were damned lucky.
If you still have them, put them on your next garage sale and see how
quickly they don't sell.
One of the first required courses in library science curricula is the one
involving collection management. So knock off the nonsense already.
James the Librarian (I have a degree in Library Science, do you?)
oly
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Sorry, but I am entirely convinced that Librarians, as a tribe, are
the enemies of books. Of course, I have just been reading "The
Adventures of a Treasure Hunter" by Charles P. Everitt (Little Brown
and Company, 1952).
Note in your knee-jerk reaction, that I left a little wiggle room,
percentage-wise (as did Mr. Everitt). However, most librarians hate,
just absolutely despise books.
oly
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Mr. Jaggers
Oh, brother.
Roy Norris
<icet...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>I'm telling you this before the official announcements. How do I know?
>Because the Queen said so:
>
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>See: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/59217/notices/950736/from=2009-06-01;to=2009-10-31;all=fifty+pence
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>Also found: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/59215/notices/948884/from=2009-06-01;to=2009-10-31;all=five+pounds
>
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>Also found Florence Nightingale: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/59217/pages/17995
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The London Gazette is, of course, the actual "Official Announcement"!