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An Ex described me as a serial entrepreneur, and it wasn't meant as a compliment. It's just that I'm better at working for myself, or as an employer, than being an employee. In the late 60s before Uni I was a Coin Dealer's runner, buying and selling at Seabys 3-4 times a week for my father. After university, freshly minted and full of enthusiasm I had absolutely no idea what to do. I'd worked at Pinewood in the sound dept but the British film industry was going through one of its periodic slow deaths and there was little work. All of my mother's family were publicans and I took to that like a duck to water for 15 years or so but at the cost of a couple of marriages. I'm a language and linguistics grad and started using that for the first time, ending up at DHL learning about freight and courier trade. For a while I was the International Trouble Shooter/Hatchet Man. 82 countries in 3 years. Since then I've owned and operated Freight Forwarding companies, restaurants,hotels, shop fitting companies and at one time the only Asian outside catering company certified by the KLBD (Kosher London Beth Din). And I'm neither Asian nor Jewish. And now I sell a few medals and tokens. I kid myself I'm retired but there is always something on the boil. It's not the money, it's the involvement.

I've pretty much done every job there is over the last 35 years, but I had two "careers" during that time: Lab technician testing construction materials during my twenties, spent my thirties in I.T., ran away to join the hippies at my mid-life crisis at 37, then ten years as a freelance gardener/tree surgeon. Gradually realised I was making more money from buying and selling coins than I was from the sweat of my brow, so laid my chainsaw down for the last time at the end of 2015. Now a full time coin dealer

Ah yes - I did Fortran IV at university on punch cards. I hereby formally apologise to Ian Pickles for shuffling his deck when he wasn't looking.

The attachment may be of interest to anyone trying to find out about Proclamation Coins. As it is large I will send over a number of posts

Just had this sixpence graded, it achieved a grade of CGS 82 (Choice uncirculated), by far the highest graded early milled coin in my collection

Me too, but until then I have to continue doing what I'm doing now. 'Er indoors said so.

Possible, yes, but I think it is probably a die crack, the bar of the ‘inverted A’ seems to be a bit higher than on the actual ‘A’ s on this coin. As regards the Davissons coin, I think the grade is right but as you suggest a slightly worn die. Jerry

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ALC with DB2 -- and hopefully Ian Pickles had taken the precaution of numbering his punch cards before you shuffled them.

I'm two weeks and two days into this hobby. Why did I choose to begin with Proclamation coins? 1. I bought a guinea without any background research simply because of a certain uninformed mystique behind it 2. I discovered that it was part of Governor King's 1800 proclamation 3. Being a fan of Patrick O'Brian novels and having read a little about colonial history, the period intrigued me 4. As an introduction to collecting, it provides me with the opportunity to consider coins of various nations, denominations, materials and production methods Realistically, I'll only be collecting coins with an exchange rate equal to and less than that given by King to the Guinea. The price of acquiring a johanna, half-johanna and gold mohur would just take too long to save. As previously mentioned, I'll also be restricting my collection to those actually on King's list. What's next? Perhaps a single groat of each monarch from Victoria back. Time will tell. There's one thing I can tell you, though: I'll be researching things thoroughly first! My guinea fiasco serves as a cautionary tale.

Only just got this Peck................Hat Off 😊

I work for an Oracle partner, mainly focused on Unix and Linux. Also partnered with NetApp, VMware, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Veeam, Cisco, AWS, Microsoft, Azure etc etc. Been here a long time now, were small but very good at what we do around Unix.

Euripides trousers, Eumenides trousers….. Boom, boom. Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week, matinees Tuesday and Thursday, tell your friends.

Genoa, Grosso da 6 denari ( 1215 - 1230 ca. ) , 1.67 gr. Ob: + • IA • NV • A • Re: • CVNRADI REX Ref: CNI 101. Lunardi 4. MIR 12.

Oh look, it's all new and has all new bells and whistles. It was a bit fiddly but I got there in the end. Hope there are no issues now.

"Clash error"? There'll be a white riot down Hammersmith Palais if that sells, for sure.

Thanks Chris for all your un-lauded behind the scenes work to host, moderate and maintain the most important and serious (generally) of numismatic forums. I am sure we are all very grateful for what you do, I know my existence would be much impoverished were it not for the Predecimal Forum. Jerry