blakeyboy

If I can't find a coin that arrived in an American grading company's slab, and busted out, I start my search by looking behind the poster on the wall....

Thanks Mike!

I must sign up too....sounds like there are some good coins on his lists...I couldn't find anything on line. Was the F148 expensive? Pricing this type of rarity must be very difficult....

My friend, who is very wealthy, asked his son what he wanted for his birthday, and his son told him he wanted a cowboy outfit, so my friend bought him Hermes.....

You are not well, I'm pleased to say....

Hmm I've been thinking- if the 'grease' did fill a die, how come it always seems to fill the die perfectly flat so an area has no detail? there is no time during a strike for much to happen, and surely some grease will be left on the coin, so it leaves the scene very quickly. If this is the case, considering the numbers minted, a grease spot would change in volume, and the effect on the coins would be very varied, and the coins having a flat blank area would be almost unheard of..... And why is it only the sea that gets 'greasy'?????

That particular mob have had stupid prices for years. I'm not sure this is down to slabbing....greed has more to do with it, I feel.....

I love the fact that it was intended to be called 'King George 111', but they genuinely believed that Americans would think they had missed the first two films and so they changed the name......

I've spent the evening with a chisel and a box of After Eights.....

1880, right hand side with half of the sea and exergual line missing- grease?

Oh- there was going to be lots of pennies- great pennies, none made in China CHINAH, I'm very knowledgeable about pennies, I'm a great collector, all pennies, but I looked at the Auction list and there are strangely hardly any... I DEMAND A RECOUNT!

Does this mean you lost the price you paid for it?

Exactly. You have to work out whether the sides of the bristles are knocking off deposits that will crumble bit by bit, or the tips are eroding a deposit slowly, therefore requiring a bristle whose material hardness lies between the hardness of the deposit and the metal substrate. That's why brass works so well on bronze, but is a big no no for copper.....

Was the wire brush steel? Brass brushes work wonders, particularly if you choose the correct one as regards the softness....

I always leave the top of a piece of sea bass in a restaurant - I don't believe the old fairy stories, so I don't like crumpled fish skin....

The most pleasing puns are those that are really contrived.....my wife is very impressed with it..... so good to admire the process rather than just the end result......!

Yes, thank you, but no luck- I've saved some for a spring sow. This year was very weird for seed germination.....

I have one, grown from seeds I collected in the mountains between Portugal and Spain in 1986- still going strong in a pot. They won't flower in a pot usually, and only then on last year's growth, so pruning them to get them into a greenhouse every year pretty well ensures that I won't see flowers. i haven't pruned it this year, since it's going into an over- wintering enclosure that has more height to it, but I'm not crossing my fingers! A famously 'messy' tree- don't plant one by a path or you will be sweeping forever...:)

Thanks to ozjohn's seeds, I have two about 6" tall. One will be in the greenhouse now until spring, the other in my recently built over-wintering canopy. i figure too high a humidity when cold is what they don't like, like most 'tropical' stuff...

I mean Frankie Boyle!

The more I see of him, the more he impresses me with his ability to think up the most bizarre things at the drop of a hat.

I resemble that remark...!

As Frankie Boyle said " Donald Trump is nothing like Adolf Hitler- there's no way he could write a book".....