blakeyboy

I know- try the Midlands in the early '70s... I was just being deliberately inflammatory to try to stop bad circumstance being 'blamed' on one person, and to highlight how such thoughts have no place in a discussion of coinage.....:)

Only if you were lazy.

Exactly- it's not a surface thing. If the strips from ( presumably) Heaton or Kings Norton were streaky, why were they not rejected instantly by the Mint? Did they relax QC because of the War Effort? I have several examples of pennies that look like the molten mix just wasn't stirred...

I just wondered if the story had even existed, and hadn't been reported, and wasn't just made up to sell some coins....

Is this a true story???? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-hoard-of-1922-penny-pennies-350-collected-in-the-belief-they-contain-gold/372450865973?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

If only I"d thought things through when I did the O. P. - it's all out of control...

No, it's my sister after a big night out. Or, the most surreal identity parade ever.... : " and can you ask number two to put a hat on and wear glasses, Officer, it was dark, and I'm just not that sure...." You know, I put up my original post, 'cos I couldn't resist, and there was a risk that I would be flamed, but no, the .....well..... I'll call you 'usual suspects', who I have noticed actually have a sense of humour, (in my short time on this forum) , have not let me down. Cheers guys.

Quality, Stuntman, sheer quality.

So sorry- just couldn't resist.....

The dalek one, I meant. Mind you, Ted has 500 clips worth sharing.....

I can't believe you've put this video up. I've been showing to people for years and it always does their heads in. Talk about inspired.......

Several years ago Tony Crocker put a 1912H, if memory serves, on Fleabay and it went for a ridiculous amount- many hundreds. i could not see why, for the life of me, so I phoned him. He was flabbergasted too, and had asked the winning bidder why the bidding had gone so high. Apparently the guy told him that George 5's nose was different.......... Maybe the details of this have faded a bit, but I definitely remember staring at the Ebay picture in 'Completed Items' to see if I could see the difference in the nose, but I'm still in the dark.

I restore old Recording Studio consoles ( mixers), but only one make, Neve, and only between 1968 to 1980. There's only me doing it full time, with all the spare parts, in Europe now, and I'm old enough to have once been taught Fortran using punched cards........ I knew at the time it would come in handy!! Not.

Excellent decision! More research, the better. Welcome to the menagerie, and go and change your armour!!

Eeee...we used to _dream_ about getting two bites - luxury...... Incidentally, the cleg approaches silently upwind, and is following the path of exhaled carbon dioxide to find the mammalian target, so, if you hold your breath for an hour, no bites!!! Mind you, there may be side effects to this.....

Ah....is she field_walker then?

Is Harcourt Fenton Mudd a Forum member?

Very scary- I drove through the LA fires last year- 20ft flames either side of the road, sun completely blotted out by the smoke, driving in near darkness on a sunny day, road covered in debris, praying that everyone just keeps moving to get through it. These things change SO fast it catches people out.

Hmm...if the steel core of the coins is 'soft' magnetic material, like mild steel, the the induced magnetism will indeed slowly reduce. To create the effect, you would need a powerful magnetic field that doesn't change polarity. Indeed, how to de-magnetise something is to use a coil powered off ac mains which reverses 100 times a second, and slowly draw it away. ( Remember the 'wand' that the old tv engineer used when your tube tv screen went funny colours?) Magnetising ( or what magnet manufacturers call 'charging' or 'energising') can indeed be achieved using a single high-level pulse of DC current, like what a capacitive discharge will produce, or, in this case, a lightning 'strike'. I put 'strike' in parentheses, since the big high current ( million + amps) discharge goes UP. The high voltage 'leader' comes slowly down, finding a path, ionising a channel of air, and the ground discharges to the cloud. Persistence of vision makes us see this as a downward 'stroke'. Lightening rods etc spray electrons up to the cloud, discharging the cloud, and can actually make a big upward discharge more unlikely. I'm selling my magnet collection. Special Offer: Buy a North pole, and get a South pole free!!!

Oh I would give this ten 'likes' if I could. My wife also thinks this is brilliant......

Don't forget they also roll the turds in glitter......:)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1874-HEATON-MINT-VICTORIA-PENNY-EXTREMELY-RARE-SPECIMEN/163028868472?hash=item25f5471d78:g:TfgAAOSwKT9a6cmc ????!!!!

An Exaggerating Fool.

Except, of course, that between being 'The Pink Floyd Sound' and 'Pink Floyd' there was 'The Pink Floyd'...:-)

OMG...I forgot the Ramones!!!!!! 1 2 3 4 then 17 tracks in 29 minutes and off. Cretin Hop will live forever. Mind you, if you think about it, The Ramones is just Buddy Holly speeded up.......