blakeyboy

Any views on this? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Very-Rare-or-error-Penny-1854-Victoria-37mm/223916840005?hash=item34227bd445:g:668AAOSwhiJePKd5

Yeah- rounded up to full measures, but 7:1 is getting dry. I'm trying to remember the name of the French writer who liked his Martinis very very dry. He ended up pouring the gin, phoning a friend in new York, who would open a bottle of vermouth near the phone, and the writer in France would hold his gin near the phone so it could hear the vermouth being opened, so, in his eyes, he wasn't just drinking neat gin, but a very dry Martini....

7 parts gin and one part vermouth, over 4 ice cubes, stirred three times, gives you a Martini?

No trailer on the BBC site that I can see...

You forgot to roll it in glitter...!

If it has the right dimension and weight, then calculating SG is pointless- it will also seem correct. What is important is knowing about other silver -looking alloys that have the same SG as .925...

It does smack of a slightly mis-aligned 2 over 2...

I've got 6 stacked up- all so similar- maybe there is one that has the base slightly incuse, but one is much sharper and pointed like Terry's above, and there are different widths, and some with the 2 leaning to the right...that one of Terry's leans to the left....all tiny changes, nothing major.

A friend of mine is a jeweller, and buys .925 coins, and casts animal figures from that metal. He has his own sponsors mark and has them assayed and stamped. He put a reasonable profit on them and took them to shows. They hardly sold. People would pick them up, weigh them in their hands, agree with him that it was the weight stated on the label, then not buy them because it was not possible to buy that amount of .925 silver for that price, clearly..... So he doubled the price. They flew off the stall. It's amazing sometimes how valuable people think silver is. "The best silver", that people bring out to impress, is often a hideous set of plated tat, with maybe a fiver's worth of silver on it's surfaces, ready to be zealously polished off....

At this point, i'd grab a magnet to slide down it, but I suppose forgers used old coin silver to pass that test...

This might sound odd, but that sort of surface, cheek and forehead, I normally see on cast metal...how very strange.... It's almost like someone 'cleaned' it with a very fine sandblaster....

I think that's a meer kat...:)

I know - selling like hot cakes, even though I didn't really get her hair right..... Now where's that Aston brochure......?

I've a strange feeling that we've mentioned 'deja vu' before.....

I saw this had sold on ebay, but why so much? i had a quick look, but i couldn't see what stood out... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-1861-PENNY-BUN-YOUNG-HEAD-QUEEN-VICTORIA-WITH-EXTRA-WIDE-1-IN-THE-DATE-/114202678254?hash=item1a970293ee%3Ag%3AMsIAAOSwGytepumv&nma=true&si=nC%2FKxx5ewG8ofD4W5SAMxxXAsIk%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Unearthed detector???

Had this fall out of a cheap lot- it's actually got the most lustre of any half crown I've ever had! Obverse is weak, but the reverse is really pleasing.

Britney Spears married Bryan Ferry.......:)

Tonight I opened a Good Red, and I am currently annoying the neighbours with 'Highway Star' off 'Live in Japan'......... ( bloody loud, nice system) I keep forgetting how unbelievable a performance this is, and every now and again, I have to hammer it out to 'reset'......

Why am I still laughing at this??? Some crap jokes just work and work....!!

So impressed you bothered with the circumflex.....

The pennies are crap, but the pictures are bloody good.

Peter, those are better pictures than I see any auction houses use...a new career beckons?

Had this arrive this morning - four quid or thereabouts- high 9? Or high 90?

Sorry everyone, I couldn't resist.....