PapaLazarou

I first tried crocodile in Karachi at the popular KFC. It tasted similar to alligator.

Sadly I have only a regular silver 1999 £1 available. ...and a 1999 Ugandan silver proof 1000 Shillings (Queen Mother).

'03 and '65 please.

£30 would indeed be a fair price for the 1999 Piedfort £1 coin (mintage 9,975), although it would probably realise a lower price if you found a feebay auction. Apart from the regular silver proof £1 (mintage 16,328 and value about £20), 1999 was the first of four consecutive years in which "reverse frosted" silver proof pound coins were issued. They sell currently for around £35, although they are increasingly harder to find, having a relatively pitiful mintage of just 1,944. I consider them the most attractive of the three variations. PM if you'd like further info.

You are not alone @stefffana...

China treats Yellen with the contempt she deserves... https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/04/26/chinese-pv-industry-brief-china-may-add-280-gw-of-new-pv-this-year/

I'm very much on your side in believing the fundamental changes to the design on the kooks is unnecessary, unappealing and a decided negative. The grotesque use of such a large font to proclaim that the coin is a Kookaburra is patently absurd (Koalas have also suffered the same ignominious butchering) and strikes me as yet another example of the ongoing tendency to infantalize anything and everything for the benefit of an increasingly dumbed-down public. Thank you @kimchi - we need more such curmudgeonly observations imo.

Please let me know if you have one for sale, and price. Thank you, PL

Are there others?

RAM Skippies

Sorted...

These gold pattern "coins" are hallmarked and do not have any "One Pound" marking - they are not legal tender. As such, I believe that they are not CGT exempt. GLWS.

Numismatic trivia - the 1983 silver £1 coin is, afaik, the only RM coin for which the CoA was the same for both the standard thickness and Piedfort coins.

I am developing nostalgic feelings towards scud missiles.

You might well have seen the latter design - the 2016 Last Round Pound...

The Fed own a large black swan farm in Iran.

Other winter nourishment is available.

Ironically the Fed does indeed have inflation under control, although not exactly in the way the market believes they mean(t).

Transitory, temporary, sticky and under control.

Trusting what the Fed says - any recent history on that?

All fiat toilet paper now officially in a race to the bottom.