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  1. Posted

    25 minutes ago, Diaconis said:

    Using military grade search engines I was able to find this photograph of Numistacker on the dark web. Look out for him at your next gathering.Belial-Mask-Scary-380x240.jpg.ac4fd8164d3b1d5c82c4ba09a7c62a4b.jpg

    Where the Hell (!) did you get my sister's photograph???

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  2. Posted

    This did happen in just one town- Kidderminster.

    I was 'helping' to run the school Tuck Shop, but of course was just there to go through all the change...

    The first turning up was a surprise, but over the months it was just bizarre.

    There was still a lot of silver in the change- I remember a 1912 shilling turning up, 

    but it was the condition that was amazing- sometimes almost BU- blazing lustre,

    with all the other kids not seeming to notice...really odd.

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  9. Posted

    I've just remembered something- in the early '70s, in the Midlands, I suddenly found  that there were a lot of florins in EF+

    turning up in change, all strangely dated 1941 to 1946. I mean a surprising amount- I had no money then, but still managed to grab

    probably 50+ over a couple of years.  I never worked out exactly why- just one person having a clearcut by dumping their odd collection?

    Why such good condition, when the list value even then was way above face, even without the silver content?

    Does this ring any bells?

  10. Posted

    On 2/21/2019 at 1:26 AM, ozjohn said:

    Perhaps you could ask Trump to  build a wall between Ireland and the north. More seriously someone will have to check trade and levy duties between the two Irelands as well as checking for illegals, criminals etc. I can't see how this will work with out some form of border control perhaps on the Norway Sweden model . Last year I was on a bus tour travelling on the  Oresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden  both in the Schengen  zone we were still checked at the Swedish border  Having said that I have driven all over North Europe  without been stopped at all. 

    I got off the Copenhagen to Malmö train this summer and there were 'border police' on the platform,

    but they were definitely not interested in me- they were just looking for arms and drugs, like other European border police do.

     

    I had a non-binding amendment on a train to Paris once....

  12. Posted

    Agreed. 

    Don't get me started on the use of 'Unc' when circulation is obvious.

    That's my grading scale base mark, from where the scale up from there   (corrosion, finger marks, bag marks 'carbon' spots, lustre etc etc) and the scale down from there ( circulation amount, corrosion, flaws, damage etc. etc..) are centred.

     

    When that point moves, the scale is ruined, even if it was never intended to be a relative comparable scale that someone else can use.

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