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Sometime in the 60s my father put some money in a safe place before we went on holiday. Flash forward 30 years and I gutted the house for refurbishment before selling. Still no safe place found. Worrying thing is that he was a coin dealer. Is it genetic?

I have drawer as a safe place for an accumulation of things deemed at some point to be important, comprises keys for unknown locks, odd brackets and screws, unrecognisable things that must belong to something. The true purpose of most are long forgotten, but they stay there just in case. The drawer of course never contains the item I am looking for.

Not something i normally buy westminster stuff, but i love the medieval them so went and collected the set of 12 50p coin bars from jersey, tiny little things using 1.5 g of silver in each one, anyway have just completed the set at a whopping cost of £330 lol, i could have bought a 1927 proof crown for that ?? i like them anyway,

nothing is safe from the replica people https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Olympic-2012-Medallion-album-filler/122799158418?hash=item1c97667492:g:5xYAAOSw9idaAzYI

moon and stars, love it, only found 4 or 5 roman silvers in 12 years

i have a julia domna VESTA denny i found earlier in the year, had to clean it though, covered in black tarnish, shame it has a chunk missing,

looks right

I have no idea where Rock Mount or Dover St were. Much of the area has been redeveloped since the sixties. Bury New Road is still the main drag up the hill out of Manchester, but houses are virtually non-existent these days, with almost everything lower down below no. 390 flattened 50 years ago and redeveloped for business use. 36 Bury New Road would be next to Strangeways Hotel close to Waterloo Road amongst the asian wholesalers' premises, all bar a few builings of which post-date this period. Knolls House is 397 Bury New Road. Even some of the redeveloped bits were redeveloped again in the 90s onwards - Hooray!! Victoria Street is the continuation of Bury New Road, down by the Manchester Arena and Chetham's School. Almost everything has gone here, but the school would have opened up business opportunties. His residential address would have been between the two business addresses. Based on a theatrical group sharing the same address at Knolls House, it is unlikely that he lived there. Certainly the property is too large for a single family to live there, so both 1879 addresses would be business ones. I think all we can conclude is pre-1886 when he is recorded in the city centre.

Must of been typing at the same time

I always have to ponder long and hard over the 1908’s. Is it F166, 2+D? I am happy to be corrected here. Jerry

Some might consider these consequences of die fill and wear significant - the ONF penny being another example, or the 1897 dot - but they are unlikely to be the consequences of a human act on the die, and many would argue they are not therefore true varieties. Personally while of interest, I would not feel they demand a place in my collection. Some might say perhaps the colon was never fully punched. Indeed, but requires a leap of faith as that could never be truly proved, and could only really be considered if uncirculated coins from otherwise unworn dies were available that showed no mark at all. My view anyway. Jerry

The joy of finding you're not the only one.

How does the seller know the weight....if it has never left the capsule??? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1988-Gold-Double-Sovereign/202105043639?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160727114228%26meid%3Dc351ac674b784be0b157e3a35b33d5db%26pid%3D100290%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D3%26sd%3D202105043639&_trksid=p2060778.c100290.m3507

I've done that trick as well. They're an absolute sod to find, and never in the place you think they've rolled to.

Dropping small copper coins on a heavily patterned carpets, is where I hide mine

I,ve lost count of the times i,ve misplaced a coin, usually a Monday morning. Stress followed by panic attacks then that sick feeling. Only for it to turn up in the coin tray i,ve already checked twice!!

"If he's anything like me. I always mislay the bloody thing when it sells" So, so many times I've done that. The one that rankles most is when Olympic 50p mania was at its highest I had three bank bags of the "Offside Rule" which was highly sought after. All three bags sell on the same weekend for a price I'm almost ashamed to admit (OK, £137) and then I couldn't find the bloody things. Refunded everyone and then spotted the bags 4 days later at exact eye level on my roll top desk. Didn't do half that money next time out. And my wife still refers to my desk as the money skip.

I know. It didn't say that unfortunately but i believe it to be a genuine mistake. I think he's listed the wrong coin under the wrong listing. He must have two of the same coin as the one he advertised and the one i received were definitely different coins in respect of grades i mean as the pictures prove.

I always look for "the coin you see is the coin you get" mantra. I know it's not always infallible, but it does usually prove to be the case.

curly limb X and wedge tailed R

An early example of a coin to help the partially sighted? A nice neat coin purchased some time back from Coinery, just thought I would dig it up and wheel it out!

was a market site, but hAVE HAD STUFF from bronze age to post medieval, found this last week on the same field, silver gilt tudor dress pin minus the pin, off to the museum next week as it is treasure

I don't think the shape of the blanks is an issue because the 'corners' on the edge always correspond to the same point on the design to within a midge's. These are a full milled/blank section out. It is quite possible that the position of the edge milling was intended to be a security feature and that this is an error. Or could the collar be put on upside down, as this would produce the same effect?