Peckris 2

BBC pips where? If in a browser, you'll find it's automatically a minute behind the actual time. I don't know why but that's how it is. I can live with it but it's a major irritation at midnight on New Year's Eve.

Not that big - Elizabeth I was just that!

or, minted by the Glazer family...

I don't see it either.

sadly an urban myth!

Does anyone know how Peter died? He was a real character, sadly missed.

I hope you avoided Captain Pugwash - roger the cabin boy was a most unwholesome command.

Didn't he suffer a personal tragedy? I think he was very badly affected by it IIRC.

Over Under Sideways Down not only has brilliant guitar on, it's quite incredible it was created before 1967.

Britain's best guitarist without a doubt.

Ah, so the Titanic hit the Loch Ness Monster, not an iceberg?

Titanic went down on 14/4/12 - presumably some pennies were struck after that?!

it doesn't look like much as far as coins go - better if you like guns or Nazi memorabilia.

Welcome to the forums Kipster! With a few exceptions I've become a 'type collector' but I do like good quality copper and bronze; there seems to be more varieties in those series if you're into that side of things.

He already said - real crap

I sent mine back - there wasn't a window 9.

Indeed - there wouldn't have been any point minting a few pennies for that purpose unless they were to make up a set!

It seems that criticism of Putin obviously affects the inner ear leading to a loss of ability to balance properly...

Ditto to the "I'm impressed". But the two coins are so similar that I'd say they probably must have come from the same location? Too much of a coincidence otherwise?

Whatever happened to Accumulator?

there's an interesting (apparently) certificate authenticating the coin among the pictures. It COULD be genuine? If it is, then it could well fetch £100k or thereabouts. IF... however, the problem is that a Viking king Eric in the north is not necessarily Bloodaxe - Eric was a common name.

There will always be a generation of collectors - some people buy vinyl records because they prefer that format, some buy just because they collect them as items, and there will be an overlap of both; among the collectors there is intense interest in - for example - matrix numbers that indicate the first pressing. Also, postcard collectors are thriving though not many still send postcards. I don't think we need to worry just yet.

The tetradrachm was widely used ultimately - the entire Hellenic world as ruled by Alexander, and also Classical Egytp? I can't give you more information about this particular one except to say that Herakles on the obverse and an eagle on the reverse was a fairly common design. If I could read the Greek legend more easily I'd transcribe it for you. This one is quite similar - a Ptolemy tetrad... https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/bishopandmiller/catalogue-id-bishop10063/lot-ae6296b4-5623-44e9-a317-a8b200fe66c2

Yes, if that was done much better, and was cheaper - I'd be up for it! It's true - I haven't left a gap, and if I DID buy a clever fake, I'd have to move everything along one... I wouldn't class a Taylor restrike as a fake - they're in a class of their own. As you and Rob say, he used original dies, warts and all, and sometimes in impossible pairings. It's almost as if the ghost of Boulton had come back to life.