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After looking on their website one can see that the die crack, early though it is, has succumbed to the usual contemporary tooling. The leaves on the wreath and high points on hair are flattened. The reverse shows wear concomitant with that exhibited on obverse, lion’s breast and ribs in escutcheon, jewels in crown, Irish harp etc. Peripheral residual lustre is present so I’d give it a generous Sheldon of EF45, so in that context it is “extremely fine” though only equating to VF in ‘real money’. I’ve seen worse examples go for more than £6,750* and better examples go for less. * here’s an example of someone blindly trusting the grade on the slab (MS63😂) and shelling out £11,500 for an example which I’d have to be put in a headlock to offer £4,000 for. https://coins.ha.com/itm/great-britain/world-coins/great-britain-cromwell-crown-1658-7-ms63-ngc-/a/3056-30267.s?ic4=OtherResults-SampleItem-Thumbnail-022817&tab=ArchiveSearchResults-012417

one might think that he’s making, or having the casts made. These dont seem common. I wonder who now holds the originals?

I wonder what was the reasoning was behind that move🤔 Its not as though it takes up physical space.

Maybe Sheldon’s motivation to create the system was pecuniary but the system is meant (intended) to define the quality of the coins”.

A bottle filled with Spirit, mines a large one.

This chap has made some interesting videos https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHammeredCorner/videos

“To be honest”…

just noticed Peck mentioned my personal favourite, “awesome”.

me too

its so beautiful there so you probably got high

I thought I'd have a browse... https://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?searchlot=1708&searchtype=2&page=Catalogue This one looks definitely suspect to me, perhaps a cast (?) yet verified as genuine by LCGS. The rim is also unlike any 1658 shilling that I've seen before. The sub-standard photography doesn't help much either. Moving on.

And her favourite doughnuts are… Wi jammin

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42680989?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents you can only view the first 6 pages but your question is answered

i know the similarity, they both fly around uranus wiping out Klingons. Whats the difference?

I recently heard that he has discontinued his new line of lingerie. Apparently, Shatner panties wasn’t the best choice for a name.

This one from 'Sorry I haven't a clue', I always liked Humph's introductory remarks about the town where the quiz was held that evening. This is how he introduced Nottingham, "It's well documented in official records that the city's original name was `Snottingham' or `home of Snotts', but when the Normans came, they couldn't pronounce the initial letter `S', so decreed the town be called `Nottingham' or the `home of Notts'. It's easy to understand why this change was resisted so fiercely by the people of Scunthorpe."

Dickens " A tale of two cities " was originally published in two local newspapers. It was the Bicester times, it was the Worcester times...

Heres some info Rob https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=2686&lot=820

Sentencing should befit the crime, only then will such criminals learn their lesson. Seizing all assets might be a good start, along with a lengthy custodial sentence. Unfortunately the usual slap on the wrist is no deterrent.

'Fleur' being Amorphophallus Titanum

Some people are really in for a shock when they come to sell on. I find it hard to believe that someone who is willing to pay over £300 hasn't educated themselves in such matters, after all it is not even a good fake. He also has an Elisabeth 1 sixpence which screams fake and now at £64. 'There's one born every minute' seems to hold true on eBay.

Any quoting from the Life of Brian is out then. Chapmans closing line would cause a meltdown.

For those of you that can and want to sit through it, there's a B&W (careful not to use the words in case some 'bot' bans me from living) film on YouTube starring Cyril and John Pertwee (its clear in this one where he got the Worzel Gummidge voice from). I'd never seen Cyril acting before and to be honest I hadn't missed much but it was interesting to see him in another role.

Zuckerberg and Thinkpol not really thinking it out. Some of the media on there is vile . FB disgusts me and I won't subscribe to their crass hypocrisy. Bring back the quill and pounce pot, that'll teach them.

“Altered” would seem the one category, out of those listed, where further explanation is required, the others being self explanatory.