Posted on 01/17/2020 6:31:46 AM PST by C19fan
This super-rare 22-carat gold coin featuring the Queen's uncle has sold for £1million in a new British record.
The coin shows Edward VIII before he abdicated and its buyer is now celebrating netting the 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity'.
The sovereign was snapped up by a private buyer in the UK, having been located by the Royal Mint from a collector in the US.
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It would take me several lifetimes to save up for that once in a lifetime opportunity.
Something is very wrong with that sentence, I think.
It isn’t as weird as it sounds. It is based on a tradition of respect. It differentiated father from son. It also made it easier to distinguish one coin from the other.
It had become practical and traditional. Edward was kind of a jerk.
The British commemorative postage stamp shows the crown above his head—NOT resting on it.
Yes. I just think the sentence wording almost carried the sense that a particular monarch might have 2 heads and that his 2 heads ought to face in opposite directions when depicted on a coin.
I am no grammarian, but I think “monarch’s heads” makes me think of a man with more than one head. While “monarchs’ heads” would more clearly imply that more than one man is being discussed. I feel that the apostrophe was mis-applied.
Something written poorly! Catch me, I think I have the vapors. Ha Ha.
I just read about the whole head facing thing the other day when looking at an article about Eddy7. I knew he was a nazi sympathizer; but the more I read about him the more he just came across as a spoiled playboy a-hole.
His dismissal of the coin tradition is just one example of him flipping off the British people.
Something written poorly! Catch me, I think I have the vapors. Ha Ha.
I just read about the whole head facing thing the other day when looking at an article about Eddy8. I knew he was a nazi sympathizer; but the more I read about him the more he just came across as a spoiled playboy a-hole.
His dismissal of the coin tradition is just one example of him flipping off the British people.
(corrected for the “proper” King number.)
George: King Edward. King Edward, Jerry.
Jerry: Yeah well King Edward didn’t live in Queens with Frank and Estelle. Costanza.
Edwardus VIII Dei Gratia Britanniarum Omnium Rex Fidei Defensor et Indiae Imperator,
or
“Edward VIII by the Grace of God King of all the Britains, Defender of the Faith and Emperor of India”
I personally think JFK’s golf clubs are more valuable.
I’d rather have the cake.
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PETERMAN: We missed you at the get well party. Poor old Walt has a polyp in the duodenum. It’s benign, but—ooh—still a bastard. Oh, Elaine, can you keep a secret?
ELAINE: No, sir, I can’t.
PETERMAN: Inside that small college boy minifridge is my latest acquisition. A slice of cake from the wedding of King Edward VIII to Wallis Simpson, circa 1937, price—$29,000.
He had quite a temper. The only thing worse was his slice.
No wonder MEghan is upset. She doesn’t have her mug on coins.
I think I used one of these in a soda pop machine.
... the monarch’s heads...
Lol. He was two faced.
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