Let's start at the very beginning ...bringing you all along

[Let's start at the very beginning ...bringing you all along]

2 hours ago, DrLarry said:

But at the end of the day it has taken me on a journey and in it's own silly way I saw elements of the design of coins as part of a journey too. In so doing I crossed history and time looked and bought coins and books I would have never dreamed I would own ad taking hundreds of thousands of images which I think now are so beautiful in context to this strange story that I will soon begin to paint them.  When I look into them I see something very comforting and I see something very beautiful so perhaps others will see that too.  We all go mad in our own unique way this is likely to be my life's work now I will start at the beginning and end up with this ugly modern stuff.  LOL

I did see one of your lion heads very clearly - however I also accept that it was 99% likely to just be a coincidence of pattern that caused the face recognition part of the brain to kick in.

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1 hour ago, Paddy said:

Very nice but I think your £50 per month budget would be blown for the couple of years! I suspect that lot will make more like £500 to £600 at DNW - they generally under-estimate. You have 3 or 4 coins in there that a dealer would move on at over £100 each, the 1718 quarter Guinea well over £200, so with the other bits quite a good lot. (The "Quarter" Farthing is actually a "Third".)

Rather more than that! It's the proof...

[What's Your Job in Real Life?]

May I dip a tentative toe into the controversial autism waters? I think - and this is only a theory based on autistic characteristics - that 'completists', i.e. collectors of date runs and every known variety, are possibly more 'on the spectrum' than type collectors?

Of course, the other connection between coins and IT is that if you get bored, you can always switch off, then switch back on again in the future. 

 

 

[Music to sort coins to]

Thanks @Madness - Joe's 'Steppin' Out' is one of my favourite 80s singles.

[What's Your Job in Real Life?]

11 hours ago, Fubar said:

When I started in computers this was the norm. Size of a foolscap sheet of paper. Can't remember how many bytes that was. something like 256 bits per patch and double sided. Didn't really have a programming language. Hex machine code did my head in.
From that to PCs in a little over 10 years. From change a chip to chuck it away. 1980s mostly.

A bit scary, the number of ex computer pros on here!

[Let's start at the very beginning ...bringing you all along]

1 hour ago, richtips86 said:

b) If this really is something that we have been doing, presumably you wouldn't find this in other countries' coinage? Have you reviewed other coins? If other countries did this then you may expect other national images - France, the cock; Australia - kangaroo? If you did find images in other coins, then perhaps it's another tick down the line of metallurgy with hot metal cooling / the physics of pressing a coin / pareidolia

Don't confuse France with Trump Tower 

[What's Your Job in Real Life?]

2 hours ago, Paddy said:

PL/1  with DB2 and IMS/Db to start with, then another another little known application development suite called Sapiens (RAD). Then much more into the Business Analyst side for Insurance companies - a lot in support of the sales process. Eventually all got too stressful and cost me my marriage so I got out of the rat race.

EASYTRIEVE rings a bell somewhere but I cannot remember what it did or where I met it!

Interesting - I designed a small Excel application for a friend's company's users which we called Sapiens! No connection with yours of course.

EASYTRIEVE was essentially a stripped down version of COBOL. Its main advantage was the utter simplicity of File Definitions for input / output operations, but the syntax was also very easy too. There were no complex functions like you had with PL/1 but its use was in any case basic commercial stuff.

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6 hours ago, jelida said:

Spink gives this at £150 in EF

And bear in mind that Spink prices are the toppermost of the poppermost - what you'd expect an insurance company to pay out, or a top dealer to charge for a very nice example. You'd only pay OVER Spink for the very rarest coins, that haven't appeared on the market for years. Having said that, this is better than EF and very pretty.

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Agree with above comments - it's a nice example and a high grade but £300 is way too much IMO. As I've said several times before THESE AREN'T RARE! And are usually found in no worse than VF, often better.

[Music to sort coins to]

I love that Vaughan-Williams reinterpretation of Tallis (and the Tallis original). Warren Mitchell said he wanted that on his deathbed - I hope he got his wish. 

There's a girl in the Sixteen who is the spitting image of someone who used to be in Coronation Street! Here's them doing Palestrina:

 

 

While we are doing Steven Wilson, this is something I've always liked:

 

(spookily, a seagull 'sang' as the track ended .. outside my window. ) 

[What's Your Job in Real Life?]

8 hours ago, Paddy said:

before that I was IT Consultant on IBM Mainframes (Like Peck) both with IBM and other companies.

COBOL and PL/1 me, plus a little known thing called EASYTRIEVE. What about you?

(One time I could also tell you about JES3, TSO, and stuff like that! All forgotten now.)

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9 minutes ago, DrLarry said:

But she is a real Classicist....I just did an extra degree out of wildness and a love of ancient history and I am half Greek I discovered at the ripe old age of 20 LOL  I think I was somehow trying to get back to my roots and I love declensions..... 

λυω  λυεις λυει  λυειμος λυειτε λυειν

(I'm not guaranteeing that - it was a long long time ago!)

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36 minutes ago, 1949threepence said:

Ah, so that's the reason. 

Well I'm not more deserving than you. Although I'm not a legend, more a leg end  

Better than a bell end. 

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1 minute ago, Sword said:

I think it is a bit of a shame that Peck had to start a new account just to avoid getting the "Forum Legend" title. Perhaps the administrators can allow someone to choose his own title after reaching 10,000 posts? 

I really appreciate reading Peck's posts over the years. Always well-informed and helpful.

Thanks.  To be fair to Chris he did look into this for me, and found that if the 'Legend' (or any other status) was changed for me it would change for everyone.

I didn't want to be a 'Legend' when far more deserving members like VickySilver, Tom Goodheart, Dave Groom, 49 Threepence, Coinery etc aren't talkative mouthy people like me, and that's the only reason I'd be a Legend!! (It shouldn't be based on number of posts...)

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13 hours ago, 1949threepence said:

You're 'avin a larf my son 

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"Clash error"? There'll be a white riot down Hammersmith Palais if that sells, for sure.

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Just now, Madness said:

An expensive mistake to learn from. We will always give you advice on coins for sale, as you're doing with 1787 silver.

[The Dog Pit]

I think @bagerap was referring to the average kind of internet claptrap where people air their prejudices freely left right and centre. It's harder to do that in 'real life' where you have to look people in the eye, and you can hear their tone of voice and see their body language.

No opinion is fully and completely informed, but a link to a reasonable website (and I will leap to the defence of Wikipedia here) to back up stated facts, never goes amiss.

[What's Your Job in Real Life?]

My longest career was in computing .. but we're talking IBM mainframes here, not the kind of device everyone carries around now.

[Madness' Coin Grading Training Ground]

I couldn't say (apart from agreeing with the grade). When I was dealing, these could be picked up for £50 or even less. Probably much more now, but I personally wouldn't pay £100 even for an EF example. But that's a personal judgement.