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Peckris

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  1. I think perhaps we should leave Larry alone. He didn't start the offending topic about Water Aid, and the person who did has now apologised for certain statements made attacking other members. To that extent we should draw a line under all this, as it's not serving any purpose. I doubt that the politics of the majority of members here strike much if any sympathy with me, but this is a coins forum, and we'd be better off banning politics and religion outright. Even in the 'Nothing whatever to do with coins' forum. Here we can meet on a numismatic footing and let's keep it that way.
  2. I'd have to disagree there Larry. I'd say the far right is fascism, i.e. Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, et al. Capitalism is the underlying economic model of the West, and we all - for good or ill - subscribe to it to some extent or another. Socialism is GENERALLY thought of as left wing, though not as far left as Marxist. However the waters are muddied by the kind of 'National Socialism' employed by Hitler, which was socialist in that full employment was achieved, autobahns were built, and there was a strange kind of touted equality. It was extreme right though, in that it used thought control with propaganda and mass rallies, not to forget the awful genocide. Social liberalism is often regarded as centrist, though economic liberalism - espoused by Thatcher and Reagan - is a mark of the right.
  3. To all those who decry the value and effectiveness of charities - another example I could quote is 'micro-economics'. This is where absurdly small - by our Western standards - loans are made to people in Third World economies to start up a very small business, often something like selling street food. The transformative effect of this not only on the people directly involved, but also the wider community, cannot be overestimated.
  4. That looks like a simple 'doubling' caused by recutting the date - my 1858 is exactly like that (though possibly without the protuberance on the 1)
  5. I'm not - I'm looking at alfnail's big enlargement picture he posted, and I quoted.
  6. The twofold problem with that theory is: 1. If 1859 dies had already been prepared, why strengthen an 1858 die for continued use? 2. Even more problematic - how does this theory account for the projection out of the 8 (top right) which a 9 could not have accounted for?
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    Market stall - Barnstaple and South Molton

    Rather more recent! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_United_2–1_Coventry_City_(1989)
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    Market stall - Barnstaple and South Molton

    Didn't they once do a mega-giant killing in the FA Cup - someone like Coventry in the days when they were a top club?
  9. A 9 would be illogical unless they'd seen Back To The Future. My guess is that it could be a 5 - 1855 is a very common date for pennies.
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    Come on ENGLAND

    Yes, that was the one time in the match that Columbia played better than us - and the first half of extra time. Not in this thread he didn't.
  11. Not so. It was done to counteract the drastic shortage of small change - which is also why the trade token issues became so widespread. The fact that the fakes are so obvious was to 'evade' the strict laws against counterfeiting, and there is a huge demand for them in the US. If forgers had wanted to make money they would have done as they did from 1816, which was to silver wash copper forgeries of the silver denominations. The forgeries (or 'evasions') of 18th Century coppers wouldn't have made the forgers much if any money as they contained roughly their own weight of copper value.
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    Come on ENGLAND

    At a World Cup! We won one at Euros 96. But I'm still dreaming.. Surely we can beat the Swedes?
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    Spammer

    Since Corbyn is no further to the left than the average Cabinet Minister of Attlee and Wilson's Governments, (he's certainly not as far left as Benn or Bevin), then I think you're simply reacting to a straw dog created by the likes of Northcliffe, Desmond, and the Barclay Brothers, who are all non-domiciled press barons who don't give a sh*t about Britain as long as the £ keep rolling in.
  14. The problem here is that if such marks are imperceptible not only to ordinary people spending money, but also the local and police authorities, it's self-defeating; how would anyone detect a forgery to begin with? And why major on base metal coins anyway - surely the effort would have been put in to stamping out forgeries of silver and gold?
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    Spammer

    I'm going to get a red one before Brexit happens. As for Corbyn, you mean to say you're not absolutely horrified by the prospect of Jacob Rees-Smog?
  16. I very much dispute this. However you must recognise that to many collectors, the 'history' surrounding a coin is tied up with the actual (intended) design on it, plus the social and economic milieu that prevailed at the time of striking, plus major factors in changes to the coinage (the William III 'Great Recoinage', the 1816 Recoinage, Matthew Boulton, tokens, shortages, forgeries, changes of metal, etc etc), plus rarities, plus patterns and proofs - in fact there is so much to endlessly interest us that very often minutiae such as accidental die damage is left a long way behind. Obviously we are all different, and some collectors ARE very interested in such things especially if not recorded elsewhere, so live and let live I say!
  17. I don't believe there is any conspiracy or similar sinister thing going on. Plenty of people here - as Rob points out - post details of unusual details on their coins. I think many of us though distinguish between human intervention (= item of interest) and accidental die damage (= less interesting, at least to some of us). I'd posit that the two examples you've shown - the triple dot colon and the lighthouse splodge - are both examples of the latter. Some collectors might get excited by these and collect them, or even compile listings. Others like myself would not. It's all a matter of personal taste. (I'd just add that, on closer inspection, the triple dot phenomenon may be a case where the first attempt was badly misaligned and repunched, but because it was 'only a colon' there wasn't a great effort to eliminate traces of the first attempt. However there are so many instances of filled dots and all the gradations in between, that even if it was a correction, I personally wouldn't get excited by it.)
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    Look for a reference for this Roman Coin

    OF II on the reverse + CONST = the Arles Mint. This appears to have the same obverse: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LAC-Valentinian-I-364-375-E-Follis-Siscia-364-367-V497-/292348246153 Here's your reverse (different mint): https://www.ebay.com/itm/Valentinian-I-364-375-AD-AE3-SECURITAS-REIPUBLICAE-Thessalonica/113109889702?hash=item1a55dff2a6:g:augAAOSwLS5bNAeS
  19. Ah, the mega rare "super fuzzy" 1906. At least, I THINK that's what it is...
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    AMRcoins

    The spotty nature of the toning on the obverse of the 1929, and the effect of that on the hair, make it seem as though there's some wear. However it's quite clear from the ear, eyebrow, and reverse, that there isn't any. I'd recommend a 10 second dip, but the reverse is AOK so maybe just a wash would do the trick?
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    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    "I'll have what he's having..."
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    Look for a reference for this Roman Coin

    Maybe it's my imagination, but I feel I can make out part of '..ALENTIN..' so you may be right.
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