UK Olympic 50p series

[andyg]

Can report Football, Basketball and Modern Pentathlon.

Not that I have any at the moment though.

[augsburger]

Are you sure about football? It is supposed to be the last one out!!!

[andyg]

Are you sure about football? It is supposed to be the last one out!!!

yup

[augsburger]

Weird, seems to be quite a few on ebay. Mine isn't out yet!! 

[bagerap]

Today, football & equestrian from the post ofice.

[africancoins]

Today I got Shooting and Taekwondo...

So what is left that none of us have had ?

Thanks Mr Paul Baker

[kena]

Obtained 4 basketball reverse and 1 sailing reverse from my son on Christmas day.

Ken

[andyg]

I think all are out now - I can certainly find them all for sale on ebay....

[chrisild]

Today I have seen a few articles in German about the football coin, and I wondered why this would come up now. Well, according to this article the Royal Mint had a media presentation yesterday (Thursday) about the Olympics coins ...

Christian

[Figleaf]

Dutch newspapers are also fascinated by the soccer coin. Typically, some claim the explanation of the off-side rule is wrong. Please dont ask me why. I have trouble understanding why there are free kicks and wonder who pays those that are not free.

Peter

[augsburger]

Neil was told his coin was wrong, and he then turned around and told the guy who said it (via the media I think) that he's an idiot, in a polite way, of course. Haha!!!

I told him that it would cause controversy!!!! He kind of dismissed it as not his problem but the Mint's problem!

[Prosit]

I supose it is my cultural background but I just don't care for soccer, don't understand the game and have no desire or incentive to learn about it.  I do like and covet all the 50p coins though

For what it is worth, don't much care for US football either.  Baseball, I like.

Dale

Dutch newspapers are also fascinated by the soccer coin. Typically, some claim the explanation of the off-side rule is wrong. Please dont ask me why. I have trouble understanding why there are free kicks and wonder who pays those that are not free.

Peter

[translateltd]

The 50p coin that supposedly explains the off-side rule (not that I can follow its pictograms) opens up a potential new field of "instructional coins" - I, for one, would welcome a $2 coin (New Zealand's largest-diameter circulating denomination) that explains to NZ drivers who is meant to give way to whom at intersections, or how to indicate at roundabouts ...

[Prosit]

Traffic and drivers are one of my pet peeves (Wal-Mart is another).  In the US, at a red light intersection, turning traffic NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! has the right of way.

However I sit every day at red lights to turn waiting for drivers driving straight through that stop and wait for turning traffic. You can't go...it is illegal and you can't tell when they might suddenly decide to go.  I rarely feel the urge for bodily harm but that gets me going.

I don't know why it is that big stuff doesn't bother me but minor stuff sets me off.  Well, a man that understands himslf is a wise man indeed.

Dale

that explains to NZ drivers who is meant to give way to whom at intersections, or how to indicate at roundabouts ...

[augsburger]

I'd like one that explains there, their and they're, too, two and to, and a few other grammar points that are made all the time, I might have learnt them a lot earlier than I did!