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Apparently, the perpetrators have been put under a rest and will be thoroughly slated. Some say they will even have their balls put in the rack... 😉

Held up play for 25 minutes, so no-one noticed...

I hope they cycled to the protest.

The mindset of "just stop oil", is one of making life annoying for others who are completely unrelated to the issue.

Protesting about cruelty to snooker cues and billiard tables

I still maintain there are many nice or "early strike" currency coins being wrongly passed as proofs, with the consequent massive uplift in cost for potential customers. I'd imagine these are a mixture of genuine error and deliberate cynical attempts to deceive. Virtually impossible to distinguish between the two, hence the fraudsters get away with it. Especially if they've also fooled NGC. My own rule of thumb is that some coins hit you in the eye as very obvious genuine proofs, as soon as you see them. I'd stick to them. Alternatively, some you know that cannot be anything other than a proof, such as the 1839 mentioned earlier, the KP31 1806 copper, bronzed copper and gilt proofs with the incomplete 0 & 1 in the date, and the R97 & R98 Taylor re-strikes with the tiny collection of rust spots at the base of the second A on the reverse. Slightest doubt, steer clear.

Oil is not something normally something that is associated with snooker but I surpose its safer to protest in a snooker hall rather than throw yourself under a formula one car after all look what happened to that suffragette in 1913

Yes I can imagine you collectors that have been collecting for years would have a hell of a problem cataloguing. Even and only after 8 years collecting it has grown to a point that if I buy nothing else I have started listing and photographing now just so the collection has some reference points. I could say that I would not mind "beyond the grave" if the rarer varieties were mis sold, even for the charity, but I will still be annoyed to think it might happen in advance of sudden demise. I have to admit I do find the process of sorting and listing coins for sale very tedious, even if it helps. It is the sheer number that is so daunting. But this conversation might spur me on to just get rid.

Stabbed with a knife point to check that it is silver and not silver plated. The preferred Scandinavian method of checking for dodgy silver. It was used in the Baltic area long after the cessation of Danegeld payments. eg. one of my William II coins also has this. The TPGs are inconsistent in this method of rejection, frequently passing peck marked coins while rejecting others as damaged - it doesn't seem to rely on the quantity of peck marks! Pay no attention to the label, as it was a normal occurrence at the time.