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  3. Posted

    Think positive Richard, most likely it will eventually get there, don't know when however.


    I know the feeling.... Top 3 stories that come to mind right now.

    I lost an F-76 that way many years ago....

    The seller tossed it in loose in an envelope where it rattled around and punched a hole in the side where it slipped out....  I was the proud recipient of an empty envelope.

    The F-76 was purchased from a non coin dealer on ebay who did not know how to properly ship a coin....

    As infuriating as those who go to the other extreme and overly secure the coin DIRECTLY to a cardboard sheet with an exuberantly abundant supply of tape..

    I only lost a few dollars, but I missed out on a substantial upgrade.... as well as the loss to the collecting community.....

    I can only hope that it was found by some who knew what it was so that it would not be totally lost and might surface again one day..... 

    C'est la vie. .... 

    I mention this ONLY as a contrast to your coin which was properly packed.


    Similarly, with a happier outcome, was an F-103 that went missing in December, in the midst of the Christmas rush.....

    I received the missing package in a USPS body bag about 8 months later with the coin still intact inside. The outer packaging was all torn up. Fortunately the seller knew what the coin was, knew how to properly package it to survive mishandling, and had images posted of it, should it appear anywhere else in the future.....

    Not numismatically related however, was the time I sent 2 Christmas cards to the EXACT SAME ADDRESS, a friend of mine and a gentleman who lived in her basement apartment.
    She received her card the day after I mailed it. He was miffed because he never received a card. I told him that I had sent him one at the same time, but I'm sure he had his doubts.
    Fast forward to the following September or October, and I received the card back as UNDELIVERABLE, along with postmark from around the country, Texas, California, Nevada, Illinois, New Jersey, of course New York, etc.
    We all had a good laugh at the well traveled card.

    Point being, short of being totally destroyed, it will most likely eventually turn up, either with the proper recipient, or with the sender, you....


    As an aside, although it is uninsured and more expensive, I prefer to ship more valuable sales by FedEx, as it is tracked at every stage and generally arrives within 2-3 days. This also applies when I want to ensure that something that I ordered safely arrives. Nothing is perfect, but Fedex seems to offer the best odds. And, although I never pursued it, I believe you can purchase 3rd party insurance for shipments.

  4. Posted

    9 hours ago, mick1271 said:

    Of Course I have , But I thought I would take it a bit more literally lol

    Of course another interpretation could be that the person is WEARING the barrel and shooting the fish in a stream, ocean, river, lake (any body of water containing said fish)... he/she might need to be concerned about getting a splinter though...

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    2 hours ago, Diaconis said:

    I'm trawling through American auction catalogues to find the provenance of a Cromwell coin I own and came across, "Ralph Barker's Collection dd 1904". I was stunned to see full-colour plates in such an early catalogue, beautiful quality. The Newark siege half-crown looks particularly identifiable with the red wax identifiers, unless NGC have 'conserved' it that is.😂

    202807757_RalphBarker1904.jpg.0b02c971aedb9b5dfc3a6296d4cd9084.jpg

     

     

    A tantalizingly mouth watering assortment of coins imaged on that plate....

  8. Posted

    On 6/21/2018 at 5:31 PM, Diaconis said:

    I rue the day we become a totally cashless society. It's bad enough as it is imo (nuff said). With disbelief, I witnessed first hand the distressing effects on a couple of Greek friends with whom I was working in the US in 2016. The financial crisis hit home and from one day to the other they had no access to funds, their bank accounts were frozen and their credit cards were blocked. Technically, 'someone' decided to  render them penniless overnight. Luckily for them they were not stuck in Greece at the time where no-one could buy anything without cash.

    I see it as relinquishing power to someone who has no regard for who I am, in which situation I am and views me purely as a cow to milk. 'They' would have the power to sentence me to a life of penury without recourse.  They could incite chaos and anarchy at the push of a button so to speak. No thanks. With cash in pocket we have the power to make at least some decisions and choices if the etherial pot of electronic money ever decides to go pop again. Call me paranoid, a Luddite, or more appropriately here maybe, a Ramage if you will, but I honestly believe that it should be resisted at all cost.

    That said, and in answer to 1949threepence thread question, Yes, I think we probably will.

    A well articulated and well thought response.

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    2 hours ago, Rob said:

    No idea, but a guess would be the need for pennies far outweighed that for halfpennies [and farthings], the requirement for which could be considered already served by the numbers circulating, whether genuine or not. Another angle could be that the security edge wasn't sufficiently developed for a currency issue, bearing in mind there was no security edge on the pennies or twopences. Or maybe it was down to a shortage of copper given the quantities needed for ships' hulls.

    The IOM being self determining could presumably issue what it liked. The head of state might have been Victoria, but the Tynwald passed the laws.

    I doubt Victoria would have had much influence in 1797, having not been born till 1819....

  11. Posted

    The issue in instances as this, would be more with the TPG than with the seller. Especially when the seller says to buy the coin and not the slab.

    I would NOT put it in Ebays Worst.

    I believe it was PROPERLY placed in the TPG section by the original poster.

    Just my tuppence worth....

  13. Posted · Edited by Bronze & Copper Collector

    1 hour ago, Rob said:

    I've screwed up my Microsoft Office inbox and have lost the spam folder. Tried to move a useful message to my inbox by dragging the spam folder to it and now the spam folder has disappeared. I'd like to reinstate it if possible due to the large number of useful things that end up in spam, otherwise I don't know where they will end up. I tried turning off and restarting but doesn't solve it. Ideas anyone on how to recreate a spam folder? Thanks.

    A long shot, but take a look and see if the spam/junk folder has been dragged to the inbox and is now a subfolder of the inbox.

    In that instance, you would probably (hopefully) be able to reverse the process and just drag the folder to where you want it to be.

     

    Or, alternatively, try searching for the missing folder and see if appears elsewhere among your other folders...

    It happens to me occasionally too...

     

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    4 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:

    An elderly guest at a hotel went out for a walk at 7:15 in the morning, ambling at a sedate two miles per hour. At 8:15 another guest went for a walk along the same path with his dog. He walked at a bit more active three miles per hour. The dog was full of beans and trotted off at five miles per hour.

    The dog chased the first man along the path. When it reached him, it immediately turned around and ran back to its master. When it reached him, it turned right around and ran back to the first man, and kept this up - to and fro - right up until the second man caught up with the first man.

    Are you able to calculate how far the dog ran altogether?

    In answer to your question...

    Yes, I can calculate how far the dog ran altogether....

     

    If anyone is interested in how far the dog ran, the answer to that is 10 miles....

  19. Posted · Edited by Bronze & Copper Collector

    4 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:

    Ah yes. Missing from the puzzle as stated is the fact that each robot knows the nature of the other robot, whether they lie or not.

    A very valid point.

    Interestingly enough though, I have no recollection of any presentation, in any variation, of this conundrum that I have seen wherein that stipulation is made.

    It appears that the assumption is that truth and lies are absolutes and any specific knowledge is irrelevant...

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  21. Posted · Edited by Bronze & Copper Collector

    On 3/12/2020 at 5:31 PM, alfnail said:

    Sorry to hear of your experience Mike.

    If you are looking for an F114 upgrade then may be worth trying to find one with the added feature of the protrusion from the H as per below.

     

    1882La (R + p) Bit above H.jpg

    Based on my searches of a limited number of F-114's, it appears to manifest itself on the

    F-114 1882     Gouby-BP-1882- La    

    but not on the

    F-114 1882/1  Gouby-BP-1882-Ma

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