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  1. Peckris 2
    Me too - obverse is perhaps GEF
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    There is an "index of sorts" for vols 1 - 80 which I have as a pdf, and could upload it to Dropbox sometime?
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    Guitar heaven!
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    My initial thought too.
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    That was a very pleasant listen @Madness - sort of 'folky prog'. (Or proggy folk? )
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    +1 = 30
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    Everything and anything good. I do have a few blind spots: opera is one, mainly due to opera singers being trained to wobble their voices a semitone either side of the note they're striving for; not so keen on raw Mississippi Delta blues (though I do like the electric Chicago blues invented by BB King); punk has always left me a bit inclined to run in the opposite direction; and I do think modern rock music - Coldplay and their ilk - doesn't have an awful lot to offer anymore. Apart from that, anything goes!
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    Yes indeed - most of the reign of GEorge III (until 1797 and 1816) had seen a crisis in the money supply. The last proper silver issue (excluding very limited Northumberland shillings) was 1758, and coppers after 1754 only struck between 1770 and 1775, supplemented by a huge and varied production of trade tokens. The variation in size and weight of regnal copper coins from 1797 to 1807 (they had to have their intrinsic value of metal) shows how the price of copper was fluctuating, and I'm sure that applied to silver too (see the early 19th C official tokens). It was only the abandonment of the need for coins to have their intrinsic metal value - i.e. "a token coinage" - that allowed the much needed Great Recoinage of 1816 to proceed, and it's telling that the size and weight of gold and silver coins thereafter was a constant from 1816 to 1971.
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    The British Numismatic Journal would be your place to start. A few years ago, someone here put a link up to their entire online resource / archive including index ("of sorts") - hopefully someone will remember and point you to the right place.
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    You have very eclectic taste @Madness - love those first two.
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    There's something wrong with your post - I've tried quoting your post and just deleting the picture, but each time I do it deletes the text as well. Anyway, my question is : what makes you think there's an error?
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    They look virtually identical to the Nicholls cabinets - either he's got himself a good contract with the RM or they've bought his designs (in which case I do hope they include an acknowledgement somewhere on the finished item).
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    Every morning when I wake up and gaze at the ceiling, there is a fluffy little bird with its beak open singing its little heart out. It's actually just an accidental pattern in the dried Artex, but having seen it once I can not 'unsee' it.
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    Yes, we probably throw the term 'autistic' around too loosely. Mild Aspergers is probably nearer the mark.
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    Ah. In that case, I'd say rather less than that. It would all boil down to how much someone is prepared to pay for (not rare) nice examples of a LIMA halfcrown and shilling, and then how much they'd throw in extra for a (not rare) nice 1787 6d and 1887 double florin. There's not much else there to float anyone's boat.
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    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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    Rather more than that! It's the proof...
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    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.
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    Thanks @Madness - Joe's 'Steppin' Out' is one of my favourite 80s singles.
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    A bit scary, the number of ex computer pros on here!
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    Don't confuse France with Trump Tower
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    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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    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.
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