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I had my first visit today to the Tyneside NS and was pleasantly suprised. The members were a friendly bunch with a wide variety of interests. It was nice to be able to talk to someone face to face and also talk about things that I was interested in without the old "he's off again" type attitude. I think from my first experience I will definately being going back and have already paid my membership fee's. The auction at the end of the meeting was interesting and worthwhile, only wish I had taken some money with me, although the wife wouldn't have been overly pleased. I think there is definately a place for both the online and offline groups as it is also great to be able to put a face to the person you are getting to know. I have had the chance to talk to and get to know a number of members on here so far and would go so far to say i would call them friends. I hope that will be the same with the Tyneside NS, which I am sure it will. Lots of great characters and like many on here loads of knowledge from many years of collecting. Thanks to Nutsaboutcoins for introducing me to the group.

I've just been reading hazelman's thread "Using acetone to clean coins" which answers my questions above!

I'm not 100% certain, but I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. If you look at the muscle in George's neck, you will see the front edge is visible on both varieties. However, the rearward edge is only really visible on the 'shallow' neck variety ie you should see a slight depression forming a line from just above the BM on the truncation towards the bottom of the hairline. Best explanation I've seen, Nick - good one! I've got 3 types of 1911 shilling to look out for, in my ever growing list: Obv 1 Rev A, Davies 1790: I of GEORGIVS and D of DEI between beads, hollow neck Obv 2 Rev A, Davies 1791 (commonest): I of GEORGIVS and D of DEI at a bead, hollow neck Obv 3 Rev A, Davies 1792 (scarcest): I of GEORGIVS and D of DEI at a bead, flat neck

I'm not 100% certain, but I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. If you look at the muscle in George's neck, you will see the front edge is visible on both varieties. However, the rearward edge is only really visible on the 'shallow' neck variety ie you should see a slight depression forming a line from just above the BM on the truncation towards the bottom of the hairline.