Half Penny Jon

I have a forgery of a spade guinea. It is struck in brass on a thin flan of about 1mm. It says 1798 and the design looks virtually the same as a real guinea. It has also been holed at some point.

Gem UNC with ABU because even though they have a different appearance, in my opinion, one is not better than the other in most cases.

I think they should be on a par with eachother.

Talking of Oli, he must be on his hols, he hasn't been active lately!

There is no way to remove the full-blown kind of verdigris (the crusty green stuff) without actually harming your coins. However, I have discovered that you can use WHITE SPIRIT to remove the waxy green colour which is the precursor to verdigris (just wash the coin gently with soapy water after). I hope this helps some of us solve our verdigris problems. So basically check your coins on a regular basis and if they have the precursor to verdigris, it can be taken straight off! At last a solution which will not harm our coins!

Driving blind, cool! (Speaking as a teenager!)

So your signarture on Coinpeople.com says!

So that means that you will get a free copt of CC2005 Chris, well done!

Are you starting in year 7 in september then.........I'll be in year 11 in september

He must have a rather extensive collection!

What kind of coins does your father-in-law collect then? You should direct him to this forum!

Do you have a collection Mark?

I got a US quarter in my change about a year ago, it is worth just a bit more than the 10p that it was supposed to be!

We had dinner at 12.00 in primary school, 1.20-2.20 is a funny time to have lunch I agree!

It was an old glass coffee jar which was quite humid methinks.

I doubt that I could manage to do the early ones! Sylvester could though!

This morning I suddenly remembered that I had put away two years ago a small selection of predecimal circulated coins mostly Elizabeth II and George VI. Anyway, I remember that when I put them away one of the coins (a rather worn 1893 penny) had a few spots of verdigris on it. Two years ago I was unaware of verdigris and it's effects. When I opened the jar this morning, I found that the coin that my 1893 penny was all virtually green, and about 50 other bronze coins had been coated in the crusty green slime! Just shows how easily it can spread to loads of coins from just a few minor spots.

Here's mine: 8.40-9.00 Regestration 9.00-10.00 First lesson 10.00-11.00 Second lesson 11.00-11.20 Break 11.20-12.20 Third lesson 12.20-1.20 Forth lesson 1.20-2.20 Lunch 2.20-3.20 Fifth lesson

We get a morning and lunch break, lessons are one hour and our breaks total at 1hour and 15 mins.

I read that if the queen owned everything in her many estates (paintings, jewels, property), it would all amount to £10 billion making her the worlds richest woman!

3pm! I finish at 3.20, and we never ger the preceeding friday off after a bank holiday!

I wonder if the royal collection will ever go up for sale probably not!

Talking about Elizabeth and the 50's, totally off-topic mind you! Are there any 1953 gold proof sets in private hands?!

I beat you by 15 minutes JMD, we broke up at 12.45pm on Friday!

I know that, but I was just confused what chris meant about (ex) friends, it is very difficult to know what people mean through reading text on the internet you know without their facial expressions to go with it.