blakeyboy

Sorry - been busy - yes- his comment about not going any clubs....and yes, there was only one Groucho...

I remember getting a Microsoft advent calendar. In the instructions it told me to never open windows 8 and 10...

I do side with Groucho on this sometimes....a lot of it it stems from not feeling welcome at any club when young. An erroneous view, sure, but easy to have when the world is big and disconcerting.....

...that's also the reason I don't buy Velcro...

Good point. Unfortunately, the peddlers of overpriced slabbed tat still manage to attract buyers....

The parallels between this topic and the world of old electronic gear and 'ham' radio are amazing. If you put two pictures side by side, one showing the crowd at a coin fair, and the other showing the crowd at a radio rally, I bet they would basically be identical - a very high average age....

We're back to Reggie Perrin and the Grot shop, but it's true- a major major driving force!

Touché

Yep- silly old buffer was a bit derailed- he didn't have a loco motive- he wanted us to believe him, but he lacked a suitable platform. I haven't expressed myself well - maybe I need a coach. Sorry for blowing off steam- hope you didn't lose track of what I was trying to say. Don't shunt me out of the way- I like to feel people are siding with me.... I can only apologise....

Robbie Knievel a.k.a. Sidney james...

I looked up the location for the wonderful 'Oh Mr.Porter' ( 1936 ) and the platform edge is still in the ground.... Incidentally, I was on the last British Rail train on the Severn Valley line in 1962....

Fantastic, Mike. I love technology, but not all. Mind you, I would prefer to go to and from my workshop on the Titfield Thunderbolt...

I think that not studying die wear and faults on bronze strikings carried out by Heaton before 1860 is a mistake. The die variations and reasons behind them may well be more easily explained if earlier foreign bronze coinage was studied to the extent that bronze UK pennies and halfpennies 1860-63 have been.....

I wonder what a French 5 and 10 centime collector of the 1850's would make of this conversation? Did they show these problems, and if not, why not? Same metal, same size, same company.....

...ah...maybe she'd just had a makeover and manicure.......

How odd...I've seen some weak reverse strikes before, but not one where the border has no teeth whatsoever....

What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

Charlie Smithers.

My wife constantly complains how everything is monetised now, and how there are no staff running a business any more- we do their job for them, and put up with this sort of crap....

I had an email from the idiot, and he suggested that I only posted this because I have too much time on my hands. The uninformed twat doesn't realise that no-one on the forum has time to waste being ripped off....typical unprofessional seller- everyone's a bloody expert nowadays, when actually real experts are thin on the ground. And on this forum.

Couldn't- it timed out, annoyingly...

I finally got my money back. Finally. I had to pay to return the coins, which is taking the p*** after being ripped off. They are STILL using the picture!!!!!!! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234689165226?hash=item36a49077aa:g:WA8AAOSwURZi4TLf They are either crooks, or stupid people who have no clue as to what they are selling. There is a funny side- this is their own picture, presumably, so it looks like they sold an F169 for £3.99..... ...anyone on here got it?

err...yeah...but that doesn't work. Searching for "1863 freeman 47" doesn't work either. Clicking on 'see more items' reveals his current sales, but then clicking 'completed' doesn't show this 1863 penny. It's just vanished, unless, ;like Mike, you have a direct link...very odd...

Hmm...if you search for that coin on ebay, it doesn't come up- only Mike's link works...strange....