ThePrepper

hi...just got back from a few days at centre parcs to find my first order of coins from predecimal waiting for me.....just a few pennies and halfpennies that i either needed or to upgrade....all very nice of course and fast service too thankyou.....i've now ordered a coupla loupes too.... seemed sensible to get a few coins mainly so i can see how you experts grade and i can now use these as benchmarks to scrutinise and learn from...just thought i'd post this up for any similar newbies.... and i need to start looking for any coin fairs in the area next....nearly got my full run of bronze/copper pennies now (not including the rare as hell ones obviously) and am finding myself spending more and more with each coin i buy....i'm skint!!!!!! lol prep

yo! went to the historic dockyards down at Portsmouth yesterday....saw the Mary Rose.....it blew my brains out. remember watching it being raised on tv back when i was a nipper....apart from all the obvious stuff, stunning cannons with flint-filled cartridges (brutal), skulls with arrow holes in the top, weapons, clothing, personalised carved bowls, surgery tools, yew bows etc etc the things that really hit me were going out into the top level and the smell hitting me....gorgeous.....and there was a tile that was salvaged that had a dog pawprint in it.....500 years ago the tilemakers dog stepped into this one whilst being made and it was still fired and then found its way onto the rose....dunno why, but it just fried me head. anyway....of course there were some outstanding coins, many in gold from the pursers chest/room.....seems he was also a numismatist lolol....one of the coins dated 60 years earlier and there were also foreign examples...the silver ones were mainly lumped to gether but the gold was of course pretty much untouched. so.....y'all get there....the way theyve got it displayed is staggering....you will not be disapponted!! and added to that the antiques shop which is based there is mindblowing....old flintlocks, samurai swords, an array of fairbairn sykes originals, masses of medals and old toys from my youth, clocks, books, ship navigation pieces, jade, ancient coins, paintings etc..... and then later....i was given a load of coins....got a bit excited initially as one seemed to be a 1788 spade half but it felt too light and sure enough was a peverell once i researched....but also an old nuremburg jeton....1807 penny....1723 irish ha'penny...1853 penny, all very nice....various other copper and a ton of threepences, sixpences, farthings etc plus some nice unc decimal stuff including first 2 pound coin, five pound coins etc etc....and a bag of foreign coins from just about everywhere...usa to hong kong to 1st and 2nd ww german, europe, singapore, malaysia, russia etc.... so...a good all-round day of coins and general chocolately-goodness!!! booyakasha! prep

lolol...maybe.....have you ever cloths-lined someone with a plaster cast....?...... got blue monday on original 12" too.....superb! saw the mondays at guilfest some years back....got right up in front of the stage and got some mad pics of Sir Bez..... yeah i know what you mean about chilled out....i've got two sons and so yup, you have to ''behave'' but i tell ye.....once a raver always a raver and when parenthood is 'tough' i do indeed find myself missing that part of my life....seems like a dream.....and i'll still be listening to this stuff the day i die. e-z now whistle posse! prep

THE HACIENDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WAS THERE IN '92 (i think.....its all a haze) i was in manchester/salford, looking after a guy who....well thats another story....still got a faint scar over my left eye....seemingly he shouldve been looking after me haha! 24 hour party people!! i've got the original voodoo ray on rham by a guy called gerald on 7" and 12, big collector of joy division/new order etc.....rabbit city, moving shadow, bukem, paradise, fantasia, dreamscape..... this guy on youtube has just about everything thats ever happened in my home area....check 'im! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTpiOAPbuQY

lolololololololol.....sir, i do not know what you mean.

lol pwa....we could get bear to open it but i'd have to lend him a pair of scissors as the knives he puts his name to would definitely not be able to cut a ribbon.... anyway....moving on....1210's yeah baby!! first generation raver here...today my diet has been too much tea, too many fags and never enough dj hype, hixxy, styles and breeze.... 'you want something to bang your head off...?'' 'yeaaaaaaaaaaaah' 'you want something ruffffffffff....?' 'yeaaaaaaaaah' 'you want something loud.....?' 'yeaaaaaaaah' 'what!.....like THIS!!!!?' BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM....................

hi....thankyou mate....appreciated, will do some research! prep

oi....i want to see them too...secrets secrets and all that.... p

mrbadexample...chingford....pleased to meet you..... pwa.....i'm very disappointed. prep

lol....its ok...problem solved....i've made a contact abroad who's going to purchase a few of my vital organs.... and wildcamper is going to employ me to do the carpentry and coin polishing for his new bar too....

hi pwa....thread hijack coming up but i'm sure brother wild wont mind in this case....i'm a leathersmith and knifemaker..... bushcraft....youve heard of ray mears?.....(and please at this point DO NOT SAY BEAR GRYLLS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!! OR I'LL QUIT THE FORUM)....the art of living in harmony with nature pretty much sums it up i guess.....shelter building, plant identification and use, fire making, navigation etc etc..... prepping....bit trickier.....similar to bushcraft but embracing 'survival' situations more and unfortunately full of weirdos....doomsday armageddon end of the world and all that....however with a lot of sense to it too....like....what would you do if the national grid went down..... so yeah i'm into both sides.....my heart is that of a bushcrafter but my brain is that of a prepper.....i've got enough military gear to provide sleeping bags, gas masks, wool blankets, cooking equipment, knives, guns, food, water purification and so on for everyone on here to survive for 94 years, whilst listening to old skool rave on vinyl even if a nuclear bomb landed on our heads but the thing that fills me full of happiness is going out into a nice bit of ancient woodland, foraging a lovely bit of spalted beech and then spending a few hours fashioning a spoon out of it whilst classical plays on one of my technics 1210's....lololol making sense?...i would put my website up but dunno if i'll get told off.... p

you need one of those tabletop machines that you ca sit down at....scrambler, defender, pacman, phoenix....ah, those were the days....i play unreal tournament and battlefield now but those old skool games can never be beaten.... e-z! prep

hi....ta for the metal detector info...thats something i wanted to know too....any advice on what to buy exactly please? presumably the more you spend the better it gets as with everything of course but.......? regards prep

lolol....no no no....what i said about new coins was in reference to the guy in the link.....the coins he used couldve been gotten new i'm sure.... you however.....are a coin collector....which means you cant use new 2ps....youve got to at least use old pennies and let us lot enjoy your suffering when you have to shine them all up....lol p

just wanted to say a quick hiya....seems i've already bought from a couple of you from ebay which is now worrying me because you all warn against doing that lol....at least i now know where i can get hold of you if i've any problems!! and i've been chuckling at wildcamper....nice to know i'm not the only mad outdoorsman on here! been getting into my old british pennies and flapping about cleaning/storing/grading/fakes etc....in fact every level of collecting is so stressful i'm on the point of giving up before i've started....but i've found a lot of stuff on here already thats been very informative and interesting too, so thankyou guys.... i dabbled a bit in various collections of stuff when younger (boy do i wish i still had it all...medals, banknotes, sovereigns) but in recent years its been mainly old singer 201 sewing machines....i've got 21 of them now and as far as i know every permutation so its time to start working on a nice collection of british coins to leave for my sons.... keep up the good work and i'll try my hardest to be a total pain in the butt and drive you all nuts with stupid questions and newbie errors!! i've got several coins here already that i'm having doubts about....i guess its good that in just a short time i've already learned enough to realise how stupid i've already been lol! regards! Prep

thanks guys....i reckon i'll have to lay my spudz on the line and post some pictures up....one penny in particular i bought last week which is very 'clean'....seen the thread on here where y'all said the buyers had been cleaned...but just looked at the one in your collection paulus which i'm presuming has not been.... mines similar to both....my head hurts. and i need to get scales....and more books....and new eyes....and a decent loupe....and, and..... p

ps.....maybe all the hoarders on here should chip in and help?....say, donate ten unc pennies each to your cause?

hi....both ideas very snazzy-looking but.....maybe i'm missing something.... i used to be a post office postmaster....it was only a small post office but even so i regularly got bags and bags of brand new coins delivered to me in the weekly cash delivery.....no need to polish....new coins can be gotten easily from any p.o. or bank no?.... and when i was a nipper i was a doorman...i reckon that guys 5 years of collecting bottle tops were generated weekly in the club where i worked....surely just asking round your local boozers would save a bit o'time.... anyway....nice to meet you camper from a fellow outdoorsman....good luck with the project....go with the pennies dude....as i'm sure you know you can get huge lots of them on ''that online website'' for very little outlay along with a huge tin of brasso........(am i allowed to say brasso on here?) lol! prep