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Peckris

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  1. Posted

    As a frequent user (I have advanced MS) I can say that I have never had these experiences you speak of. In fact, the lamentable skills shortage will get much much worse after Brexit, and I've yet to meet an NHS professional who says different. We have QUALIFIED staff in the NHS from all over the world, but as soon as someone does an Enoch Powell (Nigel Farage, to name but one) look what we end up with. 

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    16 hours ago, will1976 said:

    My latest unofficial farthings. The two with tickets are from the Cockanye collection, which was bought by Baldwins around 1946. Are the tickets worthy of the 'ticket central' thread with them being tokens rather than coins?

    Was that a member of the same tribe that Spike Milligan reported on?

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    3 hours ago, DrP said:

    That being said, you do hear some horror stories...  although in an organisation that big there will always be errors and misplacements. I think they are great - I won't get into the politics of funding it, lol. I don't think it should be privatised though, we should pay what we need to to keep it going, you never know who will need it and when. 

    Agreed. The LibDems proposed penny on income tax purely for the NHS seems like a bargain - especially now that personal allowances are £11k and rising.

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    It may or may not have been for photographic purposes. Nevertheless, it was a specimen strike prior to its becoming the new obverse halfway through the 1921 issue, and being the only example of its kind dated 1920, went into the Museum. AFAIK it never went into circulation until the 1921 issue.

    However I take your point, and unique specimens have been identified in more recent times, for example the 1953 penny with George VI reverse, and the 1952 proof penny. Bun varieties are still being uncovered.

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  8. Posted · Edited by Peckris

    45 minutes ago, zookeeperz said:

    We are less concerned with such minor variations but having said that if we took that approach for every coin the 1920 penny with colon dots to tooth would of been overlooked as just an anomaly. 

    Not a minor variation - it's the new obverse and quite possibly unique for 1920. As the known example is in the (?British?) Museum, it has never been overlooked.

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    I'd agree. Mis-strikes are interesting but not worthy of cataloguing except perhaps in a very exclusive and specialist publication. They are unique but not valuable as other collectors can't acquire another example. The only ones I've seen that are noteworthy are brockages, though there are also those who regard strikes on a different metal / planchet as collectible.

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    10 hours ago, DrP said:

    "VF is a comparatively misunderstood grade that has actually changed over the years. Back in the 60s it was defined (I paraphrase) as "visible wear only to the highest points of the design"

    That's how I often see EF defined now and what I would use for grading. I think everyone suffers a bit of unconscious bias when grading their own coins too. Even if you think you don't. :-)   

    EF used to be defined as "very slight wear to the highest points only visible under magnification or close inspection" - the difference there being that VF was immediately visible while EF required some degree of peering. But one person's "slight wear" was another's "noticeable wear", so pictures - as in Derek's book - are everything.

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    1 hour ago, Guest gaz said:

    hi i have a load off old coins dating back to the 1930's or earlier as haven't got through them all yet one is a 1937 coin are they worth anything in today's market as the net doesn't really help with all these other ones says coins worth £5k or more.

    PROBABLY not worth anything much (if it's the average accumulation of predecimal coins). But any silver coin dated before 1947 is 50% real silver, and before 1920 is sterling silver.

    (Best to start a new thread than piggyback on an old one).

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    1 hour ago, Paddy said:

    Alternatively on Chrome, if you log on using a gmail account you can set it to synchronise all - then if you lose everything, when you log back into Chrome on a new machine it automatically reloads all your bookmarks, browsing history, stored passwords - the lot. Came to my rescue when my machine went dulally last week.

     

    Same with iCloud on Macs - though I do find Apple a tad less 'snoopy' than Google.

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    I very much doubt if a coin would degrade to VF through being stored in a folder. If handled significantly, then it could go down to EF+ but pictures would help us.

    VF is a comparatively misunderstood grade that has actually changed over the years. Back in the 60s it was defined (I paraphrase) as "visible wear only to the highest points of the design", and it was strictly interpreted by the top dealers. However, there has to be a clear divide between EF and VF to account for difference in values. I would say that VF shows the complete design but can appear a bit 'blurry' due to the wear to - e.g. lions' faces, garter motto, monarch's hair, etc. If you want pictorial guidance, then invest in Derek's book on grading British coins as shown in the banner ad, top.

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    5 hours ago, Unwilling Numismatist said:

    The reverse should be the shield, rather than the crowned lion which was used until 2008.

    So in essence, a 2009 Obverse with a 2008 reverse = mule of interest.

    Are they genuine? There are so many high class fakes, I wouldn't believe this one unless it came with a RM cert of authenticity. Even then, I'd probably think twice, musing "The Mint? What do THEY know!"

  20. Posted

    14 hours ago, declan03 said:

    Another fake seller. This listing finished last night along with another three. He still has two listings to sell.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SILVER-DENARIUS-OF-JULIUS-CAESAR-ELEPHANT-3-65-g-VERY-RARE/123139771645?hash=item1cabb3ccfd:g:DpAAAOSw2VFa9sOJ

    This coin, along with several others, I have received as an inheritance. I do not say I understand that, I do not know when and where it was made. For information, I use the internet. Since I do not know the real price, I pop this item at a 1 cent auction.

    Yeah, RIGHT.

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    4 hours ago, Rob said:

    I'm backed up onto a separate hard drive. Unfortunately I had my system updated to Windows 10 at Christmas, so no longer have 'my computer' at my disposal to look for files. I'm not sure where the drive is now other than C being the hard drive.

    The browser symbol is a wheel coloured red, green, yellow and a blue centre (Google?) - no idea what it is called.

    It's called Chrome. It's a good browser if you don't mind Google spying on your every move. Firefox is not quite as good, but far less intrusive. There's also a very competent browser called Opera but probably not for the digitally challenged. Of course, you should stay away from Internet Explorer.. :lol:

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