ITS  ONLY LIKE THEM THAT BUY A PAIR OF NIKE TRAINERS THATS WORTH 2 POUND BUT PAY 79POUND 99PENCE FOR THEM

THERES NOT MANY ,LIKE THE GOOD SAMARITAN OUT THERE ANYMORE ,THEIR MOSTLY JUDAS ISCARIOTS THEY WILL SELL ANYTHING FOR MONEY

20p to spend a penny now @ Railway Stations...


4700 % increase since the sixties !

Good afternoon Tree .



Fairly good mate, and believe it or not the Royal Mint sent me a velvet box to preserve it in !   

maple tree

THE PEOPLE WHO BID FOR THE TRAIN STATIONS SHOULD BE  MADE TO GIVE YOU A FREE ONE ,BY LAW

^ Sorry, thought you were on about moving trains !

And, still have the correspondence offering to buy it off me for £50 !

Tree, I was working in retail at the time.... sifted through about 100 quids worth to find won ! 

i have 8 of the £20 coins which will now be going on ebay asap.
the fact they are only selling for 23-25 quid says it all.
who ever bidded 82 for the set of three needs help

e-bay seems inhabited by people trying to make a fast buck imo

lol hd that was good luck then.
we have a few silver 50ps like the d day one and the eec 1992 1993 one.
she tiny but love looking at them and loves the silver bars ive made her.

Hello hal. I am certain they have, but I am not sure when exactly they changed from being a simple government department with production responsibilities to being a tawdry, profit-led exploiter of public greed and ignorance.

When I was a nipper Kruggerands were always seen as a wise investment !

THATS WHAT AL CAPONE  AND HIS SOLICITOR THOUGHT

lol so they enjoyed the money then.

I notice the dodges luckily!!

THREE families who stole banknotes due for destruction at a Bank of England incineration plant were yesterday ordered to repay more than pounds 500,000 by the High Court. 



The couples, who led a 'life of Riley' way beyond their means, stole the money in pounds 20 and pounds 50 notes over a four-year period from the plant at Loughton, in Essex, where some of them worked.

One of the defendants, Christine Gibson, 44, described as the prime mover in the ingenious pounds 600,000 theft, left the depot with the notes stuffed in her bra and knickers.

All escaped criminal prosecution because witnesses who gave evidence in the High Court were not prepared to talk to the police and the Crown Prosecution Service was unable to prosecute on the basis of their extravagant lifestyle alone.

However, in an unusual move, the Bank of England cited their high living and sued for the return of the money with interest, seeking damages for breach of contract.

In a reserved judgment, Judge Norman Rudd, said that with regard to the families' explanation for their wealth, 'taken separately or together, the story is simply unbelievable', and held that they 'stole from the Bank of England'.

He also ordered the families, in addition to repaying their share of the stolen money, each to pay one- third of the costs of the case, unofficially estimated at pounds 250,000.

Mrs Gibson, of Loughton, Essex, and her husband Peter, 47, were ordered to return pounds 250,000. The judge also ruled Kenneth Longman, 34, and his wife Janet, should return pounds 150,000, and Michael Nairne, 39, and his wife Sharon, 36, all from Loughton, pounds 110,000. Judgment was stayed for 28 days pending appeal.

The court was told that the old notes were kept in cages with two padlocks, one black, one white. Mrs Gibson had the key for the black locks and someone else the white. But sometimes she was able to switch the white lock for another black one painted white which enabled her to open both locks. She and Mr Nairne would remove some cash while another employee, Kevin Winwright, who was jailed for a year after he admitted stealing pounds 170,000, distracted guards.

Between 1988 and 1992, the Gibsons allegedly spent pounds 317,000 more than they earned. Their extravagant lifestyle finally came to the attention of police when Mr Gibson went into the Ilford office of the Reliance Mutual Insurance Society and emptied pounds 100,000 in bundles of pounds 20 and pounds 50 notes from a carrier bag.

Shortly afterwards, Mr Nairne deposited another pounds 30,000, again in pounds 20 and pounds 50 notes, at the Reliance office. He claimed the cash had been found in a carrier bag behind a cooker at his late father's flat.

Anthony Boswood, QC, for the bank, told the court: 'There is an extraordinary Essex flavour about this case. These three families have been living the life of Riley, wildly above any conceivable legitimate means they could have earned.'

Yesterday, the judge agreed and rejected their explanations for their wealth as 'wholly incredible and totally unsupported' by the evidence.

A bank spokesman said: 'We are satisfied with the outcome of the case, but we are disappointed that it was necessary to bring it. Once the theft had occurred it was important that we recover the funds.'

Memry...

Weren't they worth over a grand a few years ago ?....

Hal - re Krugers,   Correct, and probably peaked at around £1200 in mid to late 2011.  Bit hard to tell exactly as they are usually denominated in US Dollars so the Exchange rate has an effect.