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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2519597, member: 76194&quot;]My oldest provenance is from June 15, 1954. Tag written with fountain pens (no signs of pressure writing which you would get with ball point pens, and notice the flexible nib used for the obverse of the tag, which you can tell by the widening of the letters in certain places, LOL.) Very old school.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]537028[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>On the day this coin went for auction on the 15th of June of 1954, the top headlines across the UK was the nationalization of the two biggest steel plants in the country, and this was the #1 song in the UK charts:</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]fU8tQpCZEzg[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>It truly was a different world, June 15, 1954. The western world actually had factories to nationalize, while today there&#039;s hardly any industry left, and&nbsp; you could actually slow dance to the top hit on the charts, and there was no reference to drugs, murder, sex, or crime in any of the lyrics. LOL</p><p><br /></p><p>I bet you the people at the auction were wearing jackets and ties, had top hats, and were smoking piped tobacco in the auction room. The cloud of smoke must have been so tremendous in the auction hall&nbsp; that I bet you some people bid on coins they had been able to see due to the fog of smoke. Like I said, different times! If the auction had been held today they&#039;d probably be wearing flip flops and a pair of shorts with holes in them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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