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Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

geearr — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:23:22 GMT

Hi everyone

Received my copy yesterday and it already makes very interesting reading. Very pleased with the purchase and my thanks go to all of the organisers at Beoworld.

Regards

Geoff

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

Chrisreunion — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:26:54 GMT

I picked up mine today at the post office, the book is smaller than I expected (I thought it was like the B&O bible..).

I'll start reading it tonight, I'm so happy the week-end is coming!

Thanks Lee for the BeoWorld card too!

Christophe from sunny Reunion Island

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

DrDimitris — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:36:42 GMT

I have also received my copy. Thank you so miuch Lee and Beoworld!

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

auclutch — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:32:58 GMT

got my copy last week. (thanks for shipping to Korea) it has kept me up several nights already... thanks a lot beoworld... no, really, thanks!

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

beocool — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:02:41 GMT

Got my copy today! Fantastic book!

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

Jandyt — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:29:56 GMT

9 LEE:

vikinger:

All a bit off-topic but interesting!....

A bit off topic?!!

Lee

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

Puncher — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:49:51 GMT

9 LEE:

vikinger:

All a bit off-topic but interesting!....

A bit off topic?!! What started as an announcement for a Bang & Olufsen collectors guide, signed by the authors has now morphed into a full scale pre-decimal currency ramble !!

Only on BeoWorld..

Lee

You started it - wittering on about the cost of postage!

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

auclutch — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:18:41 GMT

just ordered my copy. can't wait to get it~ thanks in advance

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

vikinger — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:17:09 GMT

9 LEE:

vikinger:

All a bit off-topic but interesting!....

A bit off topic?!! What started as an announcement for a Bang & Olufsen collectors guide, signed by the authors has now morphed into a full scale pre-decimal currency ramble !!

Only on BeoWorld..

Lee

You obviously should have priced the books at a logical 27 guineas in the first place to accommodate all the old school B&O antique collectors!

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

9 LEE — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:54:36 GMT

vikinger:

All a bit off-topic but interesting!....

A bit off topic?!! What started as an announcement for a Bang & Olufsen collectors guide, signed by the authors has now morphed into a full scale pre-decimal currency ramble !!

Only on BeoWorld..

Lee

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

vikinger — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:00:58 GMT

Peter :

Professional fees are also usually charged in guineas. And the earliest catalogue for B&O I have had also had the prices in guineas!! The old coins were wonderful - an old penny was a substantial coin and even the farthing, which was withdrawn before I had use for it, was beautiful, with a wren on the tail side. I have a pair of cufflinks somewhere made from them. The threepenny piece was also unusual in having twelve sides.

I have a Churchill crown as well from William Deacons bank. Crowns are legal tender though are worth only 25p! Most older ones are worth more than this as a collectors item though unfortunately the Churchill one was made in such huge quantities that they are not worth much more! Crowns since 1990 have been struck with a value of £5 though one could argue that these are not actually crowns!

All a bit off-topic but interesting! The florin (two shillings) was the start of a Victorian decimalisation that came to nothing. When the exchange rate was $4 to the pound, the crown was often called a dollar, and the half crown (two shillings and sixpence) half a dollar, and those descriptions carried on well after the exchange rate had drifted to the $2 and $2.4 pound. (In my schooldays half a crown was always called half a dollar......... but maybe that has as much to do with Liverpool's connections as being anything to do with the currency!)

Graham

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

tournedos — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:53:32 GMT

I have to admit a "farthing" doesn't make me think of currency...

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

Jandyt — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:49:35 GMT

There is another ammount of money that wasn't a coin, but mix of two or three.
Three Ha'pence. (Pronounced 'three ay punce') it was 1 and a half old pennies.
A farthing was quarter of a penny, and before my time there was a coin half of a farthing. I think it was called a mite.
The first decimal coin to appear, was the 50 pence, and it ran alongside old money for a year or two before we went decimal proper. We called it a ten bob bit.
If you had a shilling worth of pennies, you could hardly stand staright.
I too, had a Churchill Crown, but wrecked it by rolling it all the way to school one day. Numpty!

Andy T.

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

Daniel — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:52:13 GMT

Puncher:

I remember checking every penny I got in case it was a "legendary" 1933 coin!

Back in 1995, a Swedish artist (Pär Lindblom) made 10 false Swedish "10-crowns". Almost identical but instead of the signature of the head of the national Swedish bank, he placed is own signature there (PL). He saved one and used the other coins so they started to circulate.

They are made of 18 K gold!

One was discovered by a taxi driver as they are heavier then the original (10,7 g vs 6,6 g) and who sold it to the Swedish coin museum for 500 €, but the remaining 8 is still out on the market.

Re: The Signed Crowoods have landed!

Puncher — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:29:40 GMT

Peter :

- an old penny was a substantial coin---------------------------

I remember checking every penny I got in case it was a "legendary" 1933 coin!