blakeyboy

Never enough...

Ahhh..... Penny Irving.......

Curiously parallel to my business, all this. I restore old studio recording consoles, all one make, British, from 1968 to 1980. I've collected all the parts and console bits I can find for 25+ years. The prices over the last five years have trebled, as people that can't find places to invest their cash join in the feeding frenzy, looking for investments. The good stuff rose first, followed a couple of years later, the average stuff. A nice console now can be £250K...... I'm happy, since my stock of consoles and console parts will give me a pension. However, for example, consider my stock of old audio transformers. What used to be £10 is now £250. Fantastic, you would assume, BUT I now control the world price. If I wanted to sell 300 to buy a really nice car, I would get £100 each, or less, since the _perceived_ rarity is what is keeping up the price. So- what if collectors of good rare pennies sensed that interest rates were going to rise, Swiss banks no longer charge negative interest rates......they'll sell, and all the rare stuff that has never been counted, like F169's all appear at once, and people find that there are actually 50 of them, and the new 30 are all EF+...... Either, collectors buy them up at a good price and flood the market with their old average ones, lowering the price of examples in Fine, or, the flood of EF examples lowers the price of the EF ones......... Maybe.

Yes Pete thanks for reminding me- same in everything- quality always holds up.

Hmmm...this thread is a worry- I was toying this week with selling lots of stuff, including my pennies, to fund a couple of daft projects/ideas. maybe not the best time????

Absolutely!!!!!!! I used to have to multiply and divide £ s d when at primary school- we were using base 20, 12, 6, 4, and 2 every day. Ask any kid to do that now. Seven out of four people can't do fractions....

I can imagine it, and they were 50 odd years.......

'£3 or more' ???....you haven't been in London lately....it's ridiculous. No- one EVER sells me a coffee that 'hits the spot' like one of my coffees do, and they cost 10p each....

God Peter that makes my early life flash in front of me... My late Father would give me a half crown if he wanted me out of his hair for the afternoon, and I would hang around in the small amusement arcade that was on the ramp down to Tenby Harbour, inside one of the arches set into the cliff. I would try and not incur the wrath of the arcade owner by watching for the penny waterfall to get ready for a big drop.....and yes, my faithful dog-eared copy of 'Check Your Change' was in my pocket.!

If one more person with clearly limited intelligence or ambition calls themselves a 'Barista', I will scream.... Do they know how much they really should know about their trade, yet clearly don't? Dunning-Kruger effect again? Maybe they think they are a Barrister. Pretty soon everyone who pours you a glass wine will call themselves a 'Sommelier'....

Bit like that guy who lists coins, but keeps putting up pictures of a tree or a skirting board..........

Just got in from the workshop shattered, so maybe that explains why my quick look at this lot looks OK...... Has something changed from 3 days ago?

New one on me too!

One of my favourites. Not a dud scene. "The next train's gone!" Someone recently found where it was shot, and the line of the edge of the platform is still there in the ground. My father insisted we went on a train ride in the early '60's - turned out I was on the last BR Severn Valley train. Want a day out? Board at Kidderminster, all the way to Bridgnorth, lunch in a pub, and they sell Bathams beer on the train!!!! Best combination ever.

1853 to 1857, 5 and 10 Centimes struck in Marseilles under supervision by Heatons, showing what they could do in bronze whilst everyone else was producing copper.....

I now think I've done that with a 1911 penny this week. Done it before on a 1909- the picture was definitely showing '1' over the tooth. Not when it turned up. Same coin, different lighting.....

Drove past this today. Nearly crashed laughing. A44 near Rhayader.

I concur. Nicely put. I would add one thing: in my position, I collect for pleasure, but I would make a profit one day on every coin I have. I hope! My pension pot isn't massive, so this sort of thing will help. I always have 'value' versus 'price' in the back of my head when viewing lots. However, grade versus strike/ beauty is a minefield. I replaced my 1903 penny for a better condition one. I still miss the one I sold- it was one of those that anyone with no knowledge of coins would pick out immediately, saying how lovely it was....... Try looking at your collection from that person's perspective. Surely 'eye appeal' has a value???

Just seen this- apologies if it's been seen before. Her speech does have some very interesting angles on the German perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63IcW4eo4uM

Doesn't stop the bloody annoying videos about nothing in particular that start up automatically, and then follow you down the page!!! GGGGRRRRR.........

Him thinking a Shakespeare quote is a 'slogan' is amusing, and, of course, it's 'glisters'.......as any fule kno. Anyone fancy a pint in the Pedantic Bastard later on?

Wow- you live next to Mount Pinatubo!!! ( Or else someone in Tipton is having a hell of a barbecue...)

Wow....a start to life one can only dream of..... Your first visit to a city must have been something.....!

Orkney again. Cheap Lumix, again no processing.

Orkney November 2018