Oberlin

Florida State University study center computer labs numbers at least two and three open twenty-four hours a day on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

Toured the Houses of Parliament week before last. Amazing mythological legends on display. When I said that to my dad he tried to tell me that that's history.

Looks like all the coins have an image of the head of the monarch who was monarch at the time of the minting. Elizabeth II.

one penny: brown-colored, and on the one I've got a strange image of what looks like maybe some kind of stringed musical instrument and the legs of a lion, the two images divided by a line. The other one I've just found has a gate with chains dangling from it.

two pence: same color as the penny, larger, and a fuller image of a clawing lion or some beast on its hind legs.

five pence: smaller than the penny, silver-colored, and with two designs I see in the ones I've got. One is a collection of four images, one in each corner of the coin: clockwise from top left: the hind leg of probably a lion, the bottom right corner of a frame of some kind, the head and front legs of a lion I think, and a similar stringed device to the one on that penny. The other design is a crown resting on some kind of vegetation with sharp leaves curling up on each side.

ten pence: almost as large as the two pence coin but not quite, silver-colored, and with a lion with three legs on the ground and a shaggy mane and a crown on its head.

twenty pence: Larger than the penny but smaller than the ten pence coin, it's a seven-sided shape with rounded corners. I've seen two designs. One is a crown sitting on a flower or flowerbush, but the crown is larger and the leaves smaller than on the five pence coin. The other is hard to decipher. It looks like two images divided by a line. One image gets much less area of the coin than the other. The smaller is a corner of a frame like the image on the five pence coin, the other looks like two upside-down lion's legs with two tails rising and falling, curling, and also another smaller foot extending from the hip-area of one of the legs.

fifty pence: larger than the two pence coin and silver-colored, it's the same seven-sided shape as the twenty pence coin. The image is a profile of a human sitting, wearing a helmet, with a shield with the British flag design on it behind the chair, and with a staff in the human's right arm, and a lion at the human's feet, and the human's left hand extended holding a branch of some plant, leafy.

one pound: golden-colored, about the size of the twenty pence coin, but much thicker than all the other coins, and so a pleasure to heft. The thickness allows for these words to be printed on the side of the coin around its circumference: "DECUS ET TUTAMEN," with a small cross dividing "TUTAMEN" and "DECUS." There are at least four different designs here. One is three lions outstretched on top of each other in a pile. Another is a fern-like plant, with roots visible, and a crown encircling its stem. The third I have shows two lions on hind legs framing a design of a shield with some paper with maybe some words on it and maybe some more vegetation and maybe another tiny lion on top. Finally I've got a cross with a circle containing a flower in its center, and then two larger half-circles outlining that center on top of the cross.

two pounds: I don't have one on me, which is too bad. It's my favorite. It's the largest one, I think, or maybe it's not as large as the fifty pence coin, I'm not sure. It's got alternating circles of silver and golden colors, and within these circles are whirling lines and stuff, and in the center there's a slight depression forming this little bowl of a silver-colored circle. I think.