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Specialist Cricket Retailers => Uzi Sports UK => Topic started by: peplow on August 23, 2010, 02:43:46 PM
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Guys what would you estimate the edge size on this bat is?
http://uzisports.com/popup_extra_images.php?peiID=113&osCsid=m7t90ggdbl593fivim7sqojmp1
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26/27 mm I would say mate.
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20-22mm
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in between a 2p and a 50p, nearer the 2p
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do you know what that is in mm buzz :) roughly?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_pound_sterling
(http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac151/buzzrockport/table.jpg)
which makes my estimate, very close to Al's
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ah ha thats brilliant thanks, sorry to cause that hassle i could of looked it up myself, how lazy! I thought you may have known off the top of your head :)
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It took longer to upload into photobucket than to find...!
I was going to make some quip about only dealing in £50 notes - but decided that it would be wasted on the audience!
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I think we all need to get a 25 pence coin, that is the size we need for the big edge hunters out there....
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trying to buy this and some other stuff asad but your site wont let me put anything in my basket! Help :D
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Go on then what is the size of the edges? :)
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I dunno :L i'm just gonna buy it and see, willow looks okay and the edges look alright so will go for it!
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I can now confirm that, thanks to Mr E Bay I now have the ultimate in bat edge measuring coins, a Queen Mother 80th birthday coin (25 Pence Crown) from 1980. It has the same value as a modern £5 coin, so I am prett chuffed to have picked it up for £2 - including postage!!
It has the full 38mm diameter - the pic below is larger than the actual coin size... (!)
(http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac151/buzzrockport/25p80.jpg)
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God Damn......
I want one, will you swap it for a brand new £1 coin and 2 refurbished 50 pence pieces??
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Thanks that is a very tempting offer, but in this case, buy your own!!
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_nkw=25+Pence+Crown&_sacat=0&_odkw=Queen+Mother+80th+birthday+coin+%2825+Pence+Crown%29+1980&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313
Some more info on the coin, thanks to the interweb...
By 1990 inflation had meant that to issue a large coin at 25p would result in a large portion of the income being taken up in minting the coin, and the purchasing power of the first commemorative crown of 1935 was well over ten times that of 25p in 1990. As a result it was decided that future issues of crown sized coins would have a face value of five pounds.
It is a misnomer to call them crowns, however, as the crown has been five shillings since 1551. They are correctly referred to as crown-sized coins.
Weight: 28.28 grams, Diameter 38.61 mm, cupronickel, although silver and gold proofs are known.
Starting in 2009 the Royal Mint started to issue large numbers of Non-circulating Legal Tender (NCLT) crowns issued only in bullion for the London Olympics. Until I get further information from the Royal Mint I will not be listing these items.
While technically five pound coins are legal tender, banks are reluctant to accept them. Consequently traders are also likely to refuse them.
So far there have been twenty four crown-sized five pound coins.
1990 Queen Mother's 90th Birthday
Obverse: Second Portrait, ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA F D above FIVE POUNDS below
Reverse: Crown over two intertwined E's, rose & thistle QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER 1900 1990
Edge: Milled
for those really into you coin collecting (which doesn't include looking down the sofa to help buy your new bat..) http://www.royalmint.com/Corporate/facts/coins/FivePoundCoin.aspx
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I'll flip you for it I call - Heads
post a pic and tell me if I've one
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I just found 2 on there, the definitive coin for big edges.....
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I just found 2 on there, the definitive coin for big edges.....
all of the ones on that page are different issues of the 25pence crown so will be 38mm...
Norbs, with a bet like that you weren't likely to loose :(
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for those who wish to know, 24mm :)