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10-01-2016, 02:09 AM #31Razor Vulture
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You make a good point. Rod! I certainly have none of them!
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10-01-2016, 04:34 AM #32Senior Member
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Hiralau,
Mislaid....an S back then looked like an F.... Look at the word Case it looks like the word Café...Freddie
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10-01-2016, 04:27 PM #33
Can we use the word aff for a donkey?
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10-01-2016, 04:57 PM #34Razor Vulture
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I have certainly been called worfe, Richard! Originally Posted by Geezer
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10-01-2016, 11:26 PM #35Senior Member
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That is a tough loss for that man...Interesting find, thanks for sharing!
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10-03-2016, 03:34 PM #36Historically Inquisitive
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1777,Stolen two dozens razors, two guineas rewards from the owner. The guinea was a coin of approximately one quarter ounce of gold that was minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814. It was the first English machine-struck gold coin, originally worth one pound sterling, equal to twenty shillings, but rises in the price of gold relative to silver caused the value of the guinea to increase, at times to as high as thirty shillings. From 1717 to 1816, its value was officially fixed at twenty-one shillings. Then, Britain adopted the gold standard and guinea became a colloquial or specialised term.
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10-03-2016, 04:01 PM #37Razor Vulture
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Buckles seem to have been quite prized in those days as well!
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10-03-2016, 04:25 PM #38Senior Member
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Isaac Newton was Warden and later Master of the Royal Mint from 1696-1727. A report he wrote in 1717 was the force behind the Royal decree setting the value of the guinea at 21 shillings.
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