What's Your Job in Real Life?

[What's Your Job in Real Life?]

I was caught out when the Tories combined the Job Seeker’s Allowance with the New Seekers Allowance - I ended up having to beg, steal and borrow...

[What's Your Job in Real Life?]

I used to be a werewolf but I'm alright nooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwww

[LCA December]

28 minutes ago, 1949threepence said:

Some of those fakes are getting frighteningly good.   

It's why Format Coins in Birmingham stopped dealing British coins - they got fed up telling people their coins were fakes.

[LCA December]

On 9 November 2018 at 10:10 AM, blakeyboy said:

How can you tell?

 

LCA site running for me now, so I had a look, and it's a good fake, if it's fake....

Exact Chinese copy, taken from a good coin which is why the fakes are all absolutely identical. The same problem occurs with some Northumberland shillings - the only way to tell a fake was side by side with another, but by now we should know what to look out for.

[slim pickings]

On 8 November 2018 at 1:02 PM, Peter said:

A lot of those poor buggers in WW1 lost more than a 1/- 

And some of them owed their lives to a strategically placed penny...

[Let's See Your Toned English Milled Silver!]

On 7 November 2018 at 8:31 PM, Nonmortuus said:

Struggling to get them in focus but my 1829 Maundy set:

 

Nice... but it's slightly weird (to me anyway) that you've posted them all the same size. Any chance of a picture of the set as it really is?

[Acetone & Verdi-care]

Just one Cornetto, give it to me, delicious ice-cream, of Italyyyyyyyy

[What's Your Job in Real Life?]

I told the auction house that I was a bona fide coin dealer, but they wanted to see proof.

[What's Your Job in Real Life?]

16 hours ago, blakeyboy said:

I wish I'd been a second-hand car salesman, but you can't turn the clocks back.

*I* wish I'd worked in a dairy, but there's no use crying over...  [hah, you saw that one coming a mile off]

[Music to sort coins to]

Interesting selection Mick.

1. Isleys weren't really the Isleys until Ronald picked up his guitar! Good bit of pop though.

2. I do love a bit of dub. 

3. No great fan of the blues here, especially the Howlin' Lee Waters variety..

4. You culture vulture you! But who can argue with Mozart? Lovely.

[How to deal with sticky coins?]

5 hours ago, jelida said:

Hmm, I got mine mail order from the USA, wasn’t cheap but I don’t remember it being extortionate. You really only need a few drops for local treatment,  I will look around for a suitable container; or entrust me with the coin and I’ll see what I can do! 🧐.

Jerry

I will try a bottle from the USA then Jerry - thanks for the offer, but sending things by post is a real difficulty these days!

[How to deal with sticky coins?]

1 hour ago, jelida said:

If it were me, that would be a candidate for Verdicare, but looks very superficial so try a dab of acetone first.

Jerry

Where do you get Verdi-care? I've looked online and it seems to be only American, with shipping costs greater than the product price! (And some sources say it's not easy to get since 2016).

[How to deal with sticky coins?]

17 minutes ago, jelida said:

Any chance of a photo, Peckris? For localised verdigris I have found Verdicare very useful, to the extent of full removal, but it does require time for the drop applied to the verd to soften it, and mechanical prodding eg cocktail stick to remove it, and may need repeat application over a few days. As stated before high magnification and a steady hand are appropriate. Next time I tackle one I will try and take photos.

Jerry

It's not very big, but here goes:

You can see it most on the teeth and rim next to the second N of PENNY.

[How to deal with sticky coins?]

11 minutes ago, PWA 1967 said:

Behave your self 😊 You were a dealer for years you must of seen coins ruined by being cleaned ,especially the wrong way.

Only a very very minor one, who had a postal list and a display cabinet in the local antiques centre. Yes, I've seen badly cleaned coins which is why I turned to olive oil and surgical spirit as I believed both were neutral. This thread has made me think again.

[How to deal with sticky coins?]

4 minutes ago, PWA 1967 said:

Heebie Jebbies 😂

If it wont pick off leave it alone IMO.

How would you do that? 

[How to deal with sticky coins?]

Just now, PWA 1967 said:

I dont think that is one of your best ideas Peck 😊 The idea is you practice with a cheap one ,not end up with something glowing or a different.colour.

I've used olive oil before! It's just that the comments here have given me the heebie jeebies.

[Music to sort coins to]

I have the original backing track (no vocals) to God Only Knows, and it demonstrates what a genius Brian Wilson is; it's almost classical.

Not sure what he'd make of the nose flute version!

[How to deal with sticky coins?]

20 hours ago, jelida said:

One would have to exclude oxygen during the soaking process or the oxidation of the oil will happen. Of course the acidic effect on the coin is what gently removes the patina and initially can make it appear nicer. The difficulty is removing the olive oil fully afterwards, impossible if a heavily patinated coin has had a prolonged soak. There are academic articles on this that I have read in the deep past but I can’t remember where. Perhaps in a conservation publication.

Jerry

Hmm. I was going to soak a high grade 1868 penny with a small bit of 'green', but now I'm wondering if there is an alternative to olive oil? I was going to use medicinal olive oil (BP) but I don't know if that makes a difference?

[Penny Acquisition of the week]

16 hours ago, VickySilver said:

You know, IMO, that the 1919 H if superb and WELL STRUCK of good metal should be considered amongst the best of these branch mint coins of this era. They  are nearly always mushy, or of poor colour (possibly as a result of metal mix??) and seem to have problems of some sort. For some reason I have soaked up a few of these over the years and have rather nice 18 and 19 KNs with little sweat involved (and they were about equally priced).

Yes, I agree. The 1919H is by far the commonest of the 1918 and 1919 H and KN pennies in lower grades, but it's even harder than 1918KN in top grade. My own is EF+ without lustre for circulation wear, but there is practically no hair detail as the die used must have worn considerably, and the hair is the highest point. It's possible the Mint supplied some obverse dies to Heatons in 1918 and few or none in 1919, so there was considerable re-use.

[Penny Acquisition of the week]

Just now, PWA 1967 said:

There is a reason but i wont bore you with that on here...........John/Stephen/Satin/Topcarp Still the same person 😂

Intriguing! I promise I won't be bored!  However I don't doubt it's the same guy.

[1895 silver or bronze?]

 By the sound of the size (if that makes sense!), it could be a Maundy coin. Or a toy.

[Penny Acquisition of the week]

3 minutes ago, 1949threepence said:

I do......maybe it's a psuedonym, or his middle name.

Any rate, here's the note he sent with the coin.

 

 

Interesting. It's exactly the same "Best Wishes" handwriting as on the letter he wrote to me in 2000, in which he signs himself "John".

[How to deal with sticky coins?]

4 hours ago, jelida said:

Thankfully very inert, at least as far as metals are concerned, I’d even use it in my cars! The copper alloy parts in my 60 year old Landrover carburettor remain pristine, if a little worn. Any worries of even long term coin damage are misplaced, and this applies to most of the easily available organic solvents, though as stated above I always use a precautionary 100% acetone wash as a final step. Olive oil, widely used apparently on coins, is far worse as it oxidises into an acidic compound which does have damage potential. And the waxes and oils that accumulate around the details of handled coins likewise are sources of the salts that initiate and maintain verdigris, letting those deposits remain is itself a long term risk, and the main reason for the development of verd for example on slabbed coins

Very worrying. However, I guess there's no oxidation if the coin is kept fully submerged in the oil, then gently wiped free of all traces on removal? 

[Penny Acquisition of the week]

That's about the same grade as the one I bought from Richard. Very nice. I suppose if it was 1919KN we'd have to treble or quadruple the price, but those are very much rarer.

[Roman silver id]

2 minutes ago, craigy said:

i meant the animal depicted on my coin, not the one in the link kindly provided by UW 

Ah, I get it now. It nevertheless looks very much bigger than the one depicted. Maybe it's a variant, I'm sure I can make out the FON part of the legend, and possibly the M in front?