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  1. Posted

    3 hours ago, blakeyboy said:

    I lost count of the times I emailed Torr coins to tell them to stop hanging their coins in photos on Ebay....

    Acetone can leave a coin 'too clean', and the atmosphere loves that...the TINIEST amount of a benign oil,

    olive, EML switch lube, etc etc and I mean the TINIEST bit, keeps things stable.

    Put a speck on a small clean brush and apply like that - _no_ rubbing!

    In the very, very, beginning I used to use olive oil, until I discovered it wasn’t benign at all. Olive oil is actually a weak acid, apparently characterised by an acidity between 1-2%.

    Just taking a quick Look at fingerprint oil, it looks to be 95-99% water and measuring anything up to 5 on the PH scale, which I read makes it comparable to black coffee.
    Needless to say I had an anxious few weeks decontaminating all my coins with acetone and sealing them back up again in airtight coin flips!

    To be honest, though, I don’t think the dry, ambient air of modern households would notably tone a coin more after decontamination with acetone, than it would before, but everyone to their own experience and views on this, I do however choose to keep mine in flips anyway.

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  2. Posted

    You can do much, MUCH, better than that for £220! I couldn’t tolerate those spots for that price tag.

    Also, I wouldn’t let the hands stress you out too much, as long as you’re prepared to degrease it when it arrives. I degrease all of my milled, even occasionally hammered. Take a look at the threads surrounding acetone (surgical, not nail removal stuff with moisturisers), see what you think?

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  4. Posted

    32 minutes ago, Paddy said:

    Yes - others have commented on the same problem. I guess the fairly limited print run sold out quickly to people who really wanted a copy!

    It may also be relevant that the pages came loose fairly easily from the spine on this issue. Certainly mine has, and I think I saw other similar comments. As a result, any copies that fall into the hands of book dealers would probably not be listed as they are damaged. Pulped sadly!

    Have you heard of any re-runs on the grapevine?

  9. Posted

    4 minutes ago, PWA 1967 said:

    Think its just my picture as using a magnifier looks the same as the top one and over a tooth.

    The third picture is a single exergue not double and from the ones i have looked at are all the same.

    Ah, OK, that makes sense. Quick work in acquiring a top grade example :)

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  10. Posted

    I’ve just been looking at the two links PWA initially put up of the narrow dates he’d found, just to take a closer look at the waves, wondering if it was wear/strike that was affecting the shape? Anyway, again it could lighting, but I wonder if the hem of the drape/dress is also potentially different?

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  11. Posted · Edited by Coinery

    8 hours ago, PWA 1967 said:
    8 hours ago, PWA 1967 said:

    The best narrow date i found ,which is photographed in a flip.

     

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    This could be a lighting phenomenon on this one but, yes, it looks over a tooth, but different to all the others, in that the 0 appears tilted backwards?

    In the original 4 example images I noted that the gap in the waves appeared to sit over the top of the 0 like a hat on the narrow date (hopefully you can see the fine red lines in the image), unlike all the others, which were either off centre or under a differently-shaped wave gap entirely (circled).

    So, in your example it ‘looks’ as though it’s over a tooth, yet sitting under the wave-gap like a wide date, if you know what I mean?

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  14. Posted

    27 minutes ago, Rob said:

    BNS blogs will be subject to the same issues. You can save it digitally, but also print it out at your convenience. There is no guaranteed permanent repository of research data, but you can scan in printed articles ad infinitum.

    I guess as Martin says, the printed medium remains king! Rob Page has said he plans to go to print at some point, so fingers crossed that comes to pass. In the meantime I guess there’s always the option of copy & paste or storing a print copy yourself?

  16. Posted

    2 hours ago, Ukstu said:

    You can get the same information from these two documents

    https://www.britnumsoc.org/images/Henry3.com_website/Rob_Page_Henry_III_ID_-_Part_1.pdf

    https://www.britnumsoc.org/images/Henry3.com_website/Rob_Page_Henry_III_ID_-_Part_2.pdf

    There is a more updated version that joins the two documents online somewhere but i cannot find it. I do have a copy in my G drive of it if you'd like a copy. 

     

    Many thanks for this…I think I’ve just shared the document you were referring to :)

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  18. Posted · Edited by Coinery

    2 hours ago, Rob said:

    Build your own databases and get a proper library. Even just copying and pasting the info into your own reference file negates the inherent issues with sites dedicated to a narrow focus. All these nerd sites have one thing in common. When the person responsible loses interest in a field they have researched, so does their interest in keeping the site going. 

    A little harsh, Rob…I think the main problem for many is time when it comes to collating quality information at the top level. I like your idea of copying and pasting, but that resource is equally as vulnerable, unless you’re saving it to a cloud, and then even that will disappear again one day.

    We need nerds and nerd sites :) ! Fortunately Rob Page has dropped his knowledge in a hopefully more permanent location!

    https://britnumsoc.blog/2019/12/13/a-guide-to-the-long-cross-pennies-of-henry-iii-and-edward-i-rob-page/

  20. Posted

    6 hours ago, PWA 1967 said:

    I have never looked before Terry and thank you for bringing them to our attention.

    I have just had a quick look on American eBay and the first few i have looked at a couple appear to be the narrow one.

    Am i missing something and wrong or are they the right type ?

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204589827335 

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126257870145 

     

     

    They’re definitely the ones, interesting.

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  22. Posted · Edited by Coinery

    This provenance claim in an eBay title made me smile :)

    When taking a little nose into the description I was tickled to read the following…

    Elizabeth I found bent as a love token

    Comes with provenance from 2015

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  23. Posted

    1 hour ago, jelida said:

    Happy New Year, Everybody!  From the Temple Bar in Ewyas Harold,  having just spent a pleasant few minutes rousing the populace with a few rounds of the church bells. 😑😁😈

    Jerry

    Fantastic! I used to ring our local church bells…I can’t hear an old bell without thinking the same sound has been heard for many hundreds of years in some cases! As magical a sound to hear across the land as any!
     

    Happy new year to you all! 

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