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Peckris 2
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On 2/24/2023 at 11:55 PM, Silverlocks said:Here's the snopes article - this was just an urban legend that made it into the papers.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/captain-pugwash-double-meanings/
I know, along with Master Bates and Seaman Staines - but they're still good jokes even though untrue!
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8 hours ago, 1949threepence said:Yes, indeed. Although curiously there seemed to be absolutely no fuss about that at the time.
Oh there was - I remember it. But hardly on any great scale - it rated much the same as Georgia and Chechnya.
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23 hours ago, ozjohn said:The 1925 half crown has the lowest mintage of the second series of 1.4 million. Here's my example that has been displayed on this forum previously. It cost $110 at MR Roberts, Wynyard many years ago
Very nice - yes, it's rare in that grade certainly (but not in low grade).
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8 hours ago, rpeddie said:i Know early 20s were tough for condition, 1923 bucked the trend for this. What's the reason for 1924 coming a lot tougher?
One reason is that mintages for large silver got much lower from 1924-26 as the Depression took hold and demand reduced. In my own experience 1922 isn't as difficult as 1920 and 1921 but I don't know why, and my experience may not be general.
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1 hour ago, Martinminerva said:Quite a house in Leeds she lives in... One of her earlier 1933's was found inside a clock, I seem to remember, and now one up her chimney... 😉
Wonder where the next one will be discovered... Any guesses?!
There's only one response to "one up her chimney"...
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5 hours ago, Michael-Roo said:The seller ID may be fresh but that idiosyncratic voice is familiar.
Is this now a third 1933 penny and accompanying tall tale in as many years?
Oh lord, it's her again. And no amount of mentioning "the misses" will disguise the fact.
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Pretty scarce in that condition - alongside 1920 and 1924, and possibly scarcer than 1926, in high grade.
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Lovely coin - certainly scarce in THAT condition.
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Who is it anyway - Harry No-styles?
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53 minutes ago, DrLarry said:I heard this morning, on Radio 4, that they are bringing back fawlty Towers I am not sure it would be the same without Prunella Scales ( who I have to assume could not possibly be involved)
Big mistake, I think. And no, the last Canal Journey I saw a few years ago with Prunella Scales and Tim West she was getting pretty bad, poor soul.
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On 2/5/2023 at 3:19 PM, Steh said:I’ve got a 1922 penny I’ve been told it’s rare with printing errors on it any idea please
You've posted in the Decimal Coins forum - hopefully the mods will move it to the correct place.
And yes, we need to see pictures.
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How long before the 'COPY' beneath Britannia's shield is carefully rubbed away and it's offered on eBay for 3 figures?
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1 hour ago, copper123 said:Funny enough hatred of anything german lasted well into the seventies and early eighties (I remember a few old timers from the eighties that always refused to buy german made tools and cars)
I remember the mid-70s Fawlty Towers episode 'The Germans' which totally ripped the p*ss out of that anti-German sentiment.
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8 hours ago, copper123 said:There is an massive gulf between gvf and AU I wonder if these gradeing companies employ children and threaten them with a slipper if they dont do as they say
unfortunately, that is the American system for you - everything is "AU" right down to GVF
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My bet is that it's not "no H" - the H wears away before the date or Britannia, and yours is a well worn specimen (the mintmark is below the date and would have been in that area of total wear there).
The defining issue for genuine 'no H ' pennies is that they have an obverse that differs slightly from the 1882H pennies - it might not be possible to tell from the obverse on yours, but a picture might help.
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12 hours ago, secret santa said:
That's like the New York life advisor who recommended to his women clients that they needed
"a new direction". He knew perfectly well what those words could be heard as...
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8 hours ago, secret santa said:On a different subject, I have been studying the obverse 4 missing leaf types where all the examples that I've seen bear slight traces of the "missing" leaf and a weakened linear circle above the missing leaf. The example in Michael Gouby's book, however, shows a complete linear circle:
However, close examination suggests that these 2 pictures are of the same coin - compare the shading and the dark spot on the right hand side. Perhaps the 2nd picture was doctored (definitely not by Michael) to illustrate what the missing leaf might look like. Michael agrees with me and intends to include a different picture in any future updates to his book.
I therefore think that the genuine missing leaf types look like this, with weakened linear circle:
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Which is probably what would be expected from a partially filled die in that area of the coin.
well spotted.
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On 1/23/2023 at 8:47 AM, Michael-Roo said:Don't have nightmares....
who the hell is that??
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4 hours ago, copper123 said:Very kind - I accept your offer - I will of course send you back something of about equal value
A pic up from the York coin fair this last weekend - almost certainly a Moore counter issued for use in schools which were starting to take off at this time due to a health interest in education in the 1850's
the only toy coin I have! the reverse says 12 PENCE MAKE ONE SHILLING
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On 1/21/2023 at 9:05 PM, copper123 said:There is no latin name for elizabeth so it was not changed
BETTA
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On 1/21/2023 at 11:36 AM, blakeyboy said:Pips on FM and time on MacBook the same, as far as I can see.
Online BBC pips miles out- still amusing how slow digital is.
BBC pips where? If in a browser, you'll find it's automatically a minute behind the actual time. I don't know why but that's how it is. I can live with it but it's a major irritation at midnight on New Year's Eve.
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1 hour ago, copper123 said:I notice instead of Carolus, Charles is known as charles on the new coins another really big break from tradition.
Not that big - Elizabeth I was just that!
Coin aquisition of the week.......
in British Coin Related Discussions & Enquiries
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yeah - I just checked my BU 1914 and it has weak lions in the top quarter (though not as weak as on your 1918!, which otherwise is a very nice coin).