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blakeyboy
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Yes, we've all seen the hilarious AI stuff, making out some ruined Sanyo music centre from the 70's is the best thing
since sliced bread regarding aesthetics and sound reproduction, but what about coins????
Please post them here!!
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He also was one of the Doormen at the 'Ye Pyg and Whystel',
since it used to get a bit rough at chucking out time, after five flagons of mead.....
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I suspected that was the case, because the coin was very rare, or in unusually good condition,
but I can't believe that something invented last week, that doesn't exist, is such a lure for people.
How or why 'mining' happens is a mystery too.
When it all collapses into a Malthusian nightmare, and people are jumping off tall buildings like they did 100 years ago,
then I'll understand a little more.
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Explain this to me please this, bitcoin people :
if, for example, you made £1K from buying and selling a bit coin,
who has lost £1k?
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18 hours ago, ozjohn said:Made the following measurements with my trusty vernier caliper gage:
1888 29,24 mm.
1887 29,24 mm.
1912 29.25 mm.
1945 28.30 mm.
1927 RAM 28.56 mm.
1924 28.55 mm.
1895 28.35 mm.
Just a small sample.
* gage or gauge I like US spelling it makes more sense like mold for mould. In any case much US English is older English.
..but then you lose the understanding of the etymology and derivation of a word which I think is a shame.
Mr.Webster can take the blame for this- immigrants couldn't learn English quickly so they simplified it.
At least in the US or the UK we don't have to explain to foreigners why we think windows are feminine.....
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6 hours ago, Diaconis said:
I'm working in a better area of Paris right now and everyone is fantastic,
but only because, I firmly believe, because of how I treat them in the first place, and keep standards up from then on.
If I did the bigmouthed opinionated GB News idiot type of thing, my trip would not be pleasant.....
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I wasn't doing any more than pointing out that right now, more than ever,
this confusion exists, and is rarely clarified in televised arguments etc....
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8 hours ago, Menger said:Calling a spade a spade is good - and that applies to each of the bad actors (individuals or institutions) in current conflicts.
Attributing aggression to “the Russians” as a people comes close to the same category error as the snippet at the beginning of this thread “but for her people being slow in thought and backward”. In my view, the category error is between a people (the Chinese, the Russians) and the culture and historical system (imperial).
Perhaps I am splitting hairs in this instance, but the mantra I often resort to is “culture matters, race not at all”. There is an unfortunate reversion in our current culture of identity politics to invert that - to assume that one culture is no better or worse than any other; and that somehow race is important. The reversion is back to the imperial mindset of the snippet. Woke mindset is an intellectual and moral cultural regression. We as a people can do better than that.
Zionism versus Judaism.....
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Thank you for this- I'm just off to work in Paris, so I'll read more closely when I'm not eating, drinking, or visiting cheese shops....
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From a pre-ww2 stamp album page header. No wonder we lost everything!
Children would have read this.
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22 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:Oh yes, though I haven't read any for years. My favourite was the guy who fitted a very large powerful rocket to the top of his car. Yes, it achieved incredible speed though a sandstone bluff brought EVERYTHING to a sudden end.
I thought 'Sandstone Bluff' was a card game......or maybe Donald Fagan's second album.....
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Ah right- I've always held a plano-convex lens over the front of a cheap camera to take pics of coins etc....
....I have seen some things like that but I don't know the lens/thread terminology very well.
Is the extension tone as it sounds? It fits over the lens rather than on the front?
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Yes i know it's old hat and worthless, but I don't have a reasonable camera, and I've just inherited a GF2, with a 14mm lens and a 14-42 lens.
I'm hoping, because I think I can turn everything off, that I can do par focal down-the-eypeice shots with a telescope- my crappy auto camera
takes pictures of the telescope....:-)
I would like to try taking pictures of coins with the GF2, but the only macro lenses I can see seem very expensive- is there a simple screw- in lens
available to fit on one of the two lenses I have?
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I still think the 1875h is very overvalued- it's not as rare as it's 'mintage' figures suggest, in my book.
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I laughed so much at the cheek of it I ignored our 'Ebay's worst offerings' section and put it here!
My wife has suggested they change their name to "The Dunning-Kruger Coin Company"....
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On 2/29/2024 at 4:01 PM, SilverAge3 said:It's bc they got the UC designation, in addition to being very choice gem. I haven't looked at census reports for that specifically, but imagine it's quite uncommon. I'm not all that surprised, tbh. Prices on such are showing no sign of slowing or reversing.
edit: so i looked up the penny census on ngc, there's only a single pr67uc, only other uc designation is several grades down at 64. It's no surprise people fought over that. I'm guessing the halfpenny and farthing are similar, and pcgs likely also has few, if any deep cam. I have a pr66cam penny, which is still among the better of graded examples, I'm content with it, certainly not able to go to war for that one sold on heritage, lol, and even the 67 cams likely would be hefty prices i could spend on getting pennies i'm missing.
It's all so moronic and designed for rich gullible twats with more money than sense.
The giveaway for me, and a main indication of why I won't take notice of this crap is that in the 1952 penny row it has a 'shop now' button.
as if you can find one on Ebay!!! The morons who run this site can't see that this is just really sloppy....
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A fiver. Out of that came the postage, and Ebay's fees. We were left with about £1.80. I was expecting £25+.
I have the remains of three pre-WW2 albums, and I'm trying to shift them.
I put 20 lots on, all at a fiver start, and only two had bids.
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Here's a good one: a man goes on Ebay and buys this for too much money:
He then immediately puts it back on Ebay:
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I've been trying to sell a pile of stamps I inherited, and the prices on rare stuff are strong, but the average stuff is worth nothing,
Are coins going that way, where anything not top quality or very rare will slump in value, since the rich boys aren't interested?
Here is an example: A pile of old Australian stamps that I would have been _so_ pleased to have been given when I collected as a child.
Low quality pics but it gives you an idea of age - lots of old Victorian States stamps in there too.
Have a guess what they fetched:
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Rob, you just did this forum section's 100,000th posting....
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When my Uncle was very old, we covered him in grease.
He went downhill pretty quickly after that.
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Neither of those offerings is F148.
If purchased, the seller gets the wrath of the buyer when the true value of the coin is known,
not the grading company, so this is just laziness on the seller's part, so they deserve all they get.
I love the pricing disparity as well!
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On 2/1/2024 at 9:59 AM, richtips86 said:The Royal Mint has now released the mintages for the strike your own coins for 2019, which means we aren’t far from 2020 figures.
Make what you will of it of regarding the politics, design of the coin, business model of the Mint, but there are two strike your owns for the Brexit 50p. Those done for two weeks in February and one for 31/01/20 - random Friday not in school holidays.
The Harry and Meghan wedding coin (for one day only) had a mintage of 508 whilst the Snowman 50p had a mintage of 700 and ran throughout December! Both attract decent sale prices on the Bay!
I’m guessing when the Brexit 50p mintage figure is announced we’ll have similarly pretty low figures! You can currently pick them up for between £15 and £25.
DYOR
Am I on drugs?
I cannot make any sense of this - have I had a stroke? Harry and Meghan coins?
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I showed my wife and she wants a pair!!!!
New product for you there....
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I told the seller I have a bagful, and I've offered to sell them for £20 each.....