blakeyboy

Well, If I wanted to practice filling a dent in copper or bronze with a braze, I'd put a dent in a penny, and have a go.

I'm with Rob on this- looks like a practice braze. The fill metal looks to me to be a different alloy, as a braze filler rod would be. The brazer didn't use enough flux either, or didn't clean the penny properly, or didn't apply sufficient heat.....

Is it just me, but every time someone on Ebay lists an Edwardian coin, and describes it as "KEV11", I can't help wondering whether we ever had a 'King Kevin the Second' ....

I sat on my lathe this morning and gave myself a nasty turn....

I still say it's a Garden Wolf, from that single picture. - even if a picture doesn't show the markings, the front legs are a guide.

That looks like a Garden Wolf to me....equally horrid.....

Stares into camera: "Mine, I tell you, mine!!!!!!" FADEOUT. So ends the tale of the half-crazed completionist that lurks inside _all_ members of this website......:)

I'm having real trouble coping with that penny. My coin envy meter needle is pegging the top of the scale.

You learn fast, Grasshopper.....

I was the second bidder on the F41- always the bridesmaid.....

Ah.. thanks for that. If that clause didn't exist then the proceedings would be farcical!

Ah right- I was 850, but an absentee. Does this mean that If I had bid, say 851, then I have got second on the grid?

I was second bid on 1994 - the Freeman 76. I'm glad I didn't attend, if reports (above) of how the auction is handled are true....

Archie Piscopal ran a pub in Dulwich in the 1980's if I remember correctly...

Does an Ebay agreement have a Sanity Clause?

Or, email the picture to yourself, selecting the image size so your received email from you has a picture below .5Mb!

is that yours Pete?

I tried to keep up standards by also including a plural compound noun....:) As a certain N. Molesworth said: A tool shed is where you keep tools A bike shed is where you keep bikes. A watershed is where you keep water.

EXACTLY!!!! Pete, that's my punchline taken away, and I don't care...!

Incidentally, do you know why divers fall backwards out of a boat?

As usual, I sea the Punmeisters General have started their outboards and are going overboard plumbing the depths. It was only a matter of time for the jokes to hit rock bottom. I'm not going to join in. I don't give in to pier pressure. I'm not that gullible.

Sir Ben Stokes?

Ooh me head. Barbecue at a friend's place. As the tension rose, the measures of Malt got bigger....

It's PE, obviously. Otherwise you'd be 'Enckris 2'.....

Exactly Mike. It's all dependant on how many are first discovered, and what appeals at that time, or is fashionable. You can say there are 4 types of the 1908, or not bother at all and say there is just one type. If the latter, then there is no 1926ME, 1911 hollow neck, 1903 open 3 etc. The 1874 series would be half as big..... What about the 1890 dropped 90? Try finding one..... I have an 1880 with sea by the ship missing. So what. But, if it's a 1934, everyone is interested. You have to have that 'magic ammount' found- not quite enough to go round, but _just_ enough discovered for people to feel they are missing out by not having one......! ( The exception to this is when clearly there was a _set_ of dies made, but one obviously missing. An 1862 halfpenny with a 'D', or more spectacularly, an 1863 with a clear '1' below the date turns up.....see what happens....)