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blakeyboy
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I do side with Groucho on this sometimes....a lot of it it stems from not feeling welcome at any club when young. An erroneous view, sure, but easy to have when the world is big and disconcerting.....
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...that's also the reason I don't buy Velcro...
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Good point. Unfortunately, the peddlers of overpriced slabbed tat still manage to attract buyers....
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The parallels between this topic and the world of old electronic gear and 'ham' radio are amazing. If you put two pictures side by side, one showing the crowd at a coin fair, and the other showing the crowd at a radio rally, I bet they would basically be identical - a very high average age....
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Stuff to Make Us Laugh
blakeyboy replied to Madness's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
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We're back to Reggie Perrin and the Grot shop, but it's true- a major major driving force!
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Stuff to Make Us Laugh
blakeyboy replied to Madness's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
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blakeyboy replied to Madness's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Yep- silly old buffer was a bit derailed- he didn't have a loco motive- he wanted us to believe him, but he lacked a suitable platform. I haven't expressed myself well - maybe I need a coach. Sorry for blowing off steam- hope you didn't lose track of what I was trying to say. Don't shunt me out of the way- I like to feel people are siding with me.... I can only apologise.... -
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blakeyboy replied to Madness's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Robbie Knievel a.k.a. Sidney james... -
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blakeyboy replied to Madness's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
I looked up the location for the wonderful 'Oh Mr.Porter' ( 1936 ) and the platform edge is still in the ground.... Incidentally, I was on the last British Rail train on the Severn Valley line in 1962.... -
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blakeyboy replied to Madness's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
Fantastic, Mike. I love technology, but not all. Mind you, I would prefer to go to and from my workshop on the Titfield Thunderbolt... -
I think that not studying die wear and faults on bronze strikings carried out by Heaton before 1860 is a mistake. The die variations and reasons behind them may well be more easily explained if earlier foreign bronze coinage was studied to the extent that bronze UK pennies and halfpennies 1860-63 have been.....
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I wonder what a French 5 and 10 centime collector of the 1850's would make of this conversation? Did they show these problems, and if not, why not? Same metal, same size, same company.....
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Penny Acquisition of the week
blakeyboy replied to Paulus's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
...ah...maybe she'd just had a makeover and manicure....... -
Penny Acquisition of the week
blakeyboy replied to Paulus's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
How odd...I've seen some weak reverse strikes before, but not one where the border has no teeth whatsoever.... -
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blakeyboy replied to Madness's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care. -
Charlie Smithers.
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My wife constantly complains how everything is monetised now, and how there are no staff running a business any more- we do their job for them, and put up with this sort of crap....
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I had an email from the idiot, and he suggested that I only posted this because I have too much time on my hands. The uninformed twat doesn't realise that no-one on the forum has time to waste being ripped off....typical unprofessional seller- everyone's a bloody expert nowadays, when actually real experts are thin on the ground. And on this forum.
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Couldn't- it timed out, annoyingly...
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1863 F47 - die No 4 under date. Did anybody here win this?
blakeyboy replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
err...yeah...but that doesn't work. Searching for "1863 freeman 47" doesn't work either. Clicking on 'see more items' reveals his current sales, but then clicking 'completed' doesn't show this 1863 penny. It's just vanished, unless, ;like Mike, you have a direct link...very odd... -
1863 F47 - die No 4 under date. Did anybody here win this?
blakeyboy replied to 1949threepence's topic in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
Hmm...if you search for that coin on ebay, it doesn't come up- only Mike's link works...strange.... -
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blakeyboy replied to Madness's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
The world is full of people who have no useful skills. They are, however, very good at 'having opinions' so they are noticed, but only when saying things that are controversial or simply untrue. People then spend time trying to win logical arguments with them, giving them the oxygen of publicity they need. So, the best policy is to ignore them. -
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blakeyboy replied to Madness's topic in Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area!
All those is 'whatever' fake / not fake arguments bore me stupid now. However, if I wanted to control my population would get rid of cash. -
From the FT, about the Crimea bridge explosion, funniest paragraph of the week...: "Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the attack, though officials did post several comments mocking Russia on social media and the Ukrainian post office has issued a commemorative stamp." Fantastic.
