Rob

Don't know. There are other salerooms that have occasional coin lots, but not geared towards them. Brock's had coin lots because firstly he used to deal in them, but also the pawn shop used to attact them. Might be thin pickings from now on.

Find a microscopist with an interest in coins I have got my customers interested in something because it was old and after a short time they have offered to do it when they had a spare 5 mins.

I'm not aware of any double amputees on this forum. One hand should suffice for a pint pot.

Which is again down to double striking. Look at the inner circle to get an idea of how badly struck it is. The die will have had a C, just that it isn't present on this coin.

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In this case I think it is down to multiple blows as you can see a trace of both the chest and the crown in front of the bust

Peckris aka one of the Mr Men characters, can we guess which one boys and girls?(lol, that was a quick edit! you are obviously Mr Finger-on-the-Button...) Especially when the grammer nazi is trawling the forum Was this last statement of yours made post-mortem Dave? You've just been shot - for your own good, I might add. I'll leave you to work out what's wrong.

For all those unaware of the fact, Tony and Wyn have decided to hang up their boots at the end of the month. Tony has been undergoing chemo for the past two or three years and Wyn has reached 65, so they have decided to call it a day.

There is also a temptation to check for any replies to a post you might have made. I blame it on not being usefully employed elsewhere, so it gets used as a time filler.

Yes. Welcome. It is nearly 2 in the morning and I have also looked too often. Mind you, I frequently leave the forum open on a tab, so end up looking by default when I close something down.

I can't help with the nickel analysis as I forgot to do mine when I did all the Weyl patterns.

Was that run against a standard? Davies noted that any scrap from the war machine was fed into the mix initially, hence the highly irregular compositions. I might have expected a contribution from brass.

Eeee it's a strange world. After the conversation with no.4 last night, I dug out my old caving logs and did a search on some US names that I'd caved with. The first result for one person was his recent request on a forum to find me following a working trip to Montana in 1982 which prompted me to take my gear and get in some time underground. One weekend we found a reasonable amount of virgin cave but the system was only fully surveyed a couple of years ago. It transpires I had an underground lake named after me as the finder 32 years ago. Who would have thought it? I haven't looked at the logs for over 20 years, which makes the timing a bit spooky.

That isn't a letter by lighthouse variety. The C will be larger. The font size is the same for any of the letters, so if you find a better image it will give you the size and position too.

The guy was pricing MS60-63 grade at $2000, hence the comment about the decimal point. I agree it looks better than EF

Course I did. I was never very good at climbing because I'm not skinny enough, so went underground instead. Showed him the place below in the US that I went down in 1984 and it blew his mind. A super free-hang of nearly 600' down the centre of the shaft. Hard work going down as well as up.https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=942&q=ellison%27s+cave+georgia&oq=ellison%27s+cave&gs_l=img.1.1.0l5j0i5j0i24l4.2525.8250.0.10592.14.11.0.3.3.0.94.687.11.11.0....0...1ac.1.49.img..0.14.695.PeCkSUR0qY0#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=Y46UBYFJRagyaM%253A%3BuhQC-ODVc-Iq2M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252F33.media.tumblr.com%252Fcfb97daaf385413b07e69e446044b1c4%252Ftumblr_mvg5cn97q21qmvxavo1_1280.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fsci-universe.tumblr.com%252Fpost%252F65544702803%252Fthe-deepest-cave-drop-in-the-continental-united%3B500%3B769

I don't have access to NGC's price/grade figures, but it sounds like someone forgot to insert a decimal point halfway. $20 for an EF (which is what MS60 equates to) can't be too wide of the mark. And as Peck said, don't forget to add on $19.50 for the plastic.

No he was getting in some time on limestone when he b******d some tendons in the left arm. Serves him right as he had a broken bone in his foot when he got there, so was probably compensating by using more upper body strength. Doh.

Good news. Number 4 hurt himself climbing in Majorca and had to come home early. He has sorted out and shown me how it is possible to save files in a different format, so now there's no need to get google mail to do the job. Thanks for assistance - I'm sure there will be more questions to come.

There is the Barton airshow up here, but normally the closest we come to an air display is the nightly patrol of the Police helicopter, shining a light on all those naughty boys on the estate - a near daily event.

A picture of the obverse would help. The drapery around Britannia's left shoulder is ok for the 1841 coins. Accumulator's 1841 with no colon shows a similar tail to the helmet plume and the drapery at the point where the trident shaft meets is quite similar. The asymmetrical ornaments to the trident head are seen elsewhere. This makes most of the detail known with only the twin raised lines an anomaly. The two raised lines on the saltire are a feature of the bronze shields, so maybe it was an early reverse by LCW as opposed to WW? He joined the Royal Mint in 1844 and worked under his father, so if there are any more reverses of this type (and crucially they were engraved by him), it would have to be on coins from 1844 onwards. There are undocumented reverses elsewhere in the copper series, so a new penny reverse whilst unexpected, would not be impossible. Humans are creatures of habit, so if he used double lines in 1860, it would not be unreasonable that he used them before. Any medals attributed to him with a similar type of shield detail?

I presume you mean 1.75cm (17.5mm) as 1.75mm would be ridiculously small. It is likely to be toy money, probably made by Lauer of Nurnburg a hundred years ago, give or take a bit.

Seeing as it has 'COPY' clearly impressed into the reverse, you'd have to be a blind idiot to buy this for £300. Maybe the seller meant £3? It's a shockingly poor example, surely the seller isn't so lacking in the area to know this!Even my wife instantly filed this as fake! Good girl! X You've been spending too much time talking to the missus. Mine also seems to be increasingly well versed in the minutiae of numismatics. Nerd alert! I must learn to stop wittering on about dies and punches and engravers and mints and catalogues and sales and latest purchases and ..............................

That was the Adams coin which then passed to Peter Simon, so in the Alderly collection http://www.colincooke.com/coin_images/alderlypennies/196.jpg

I don't have a problem with multiple email addresses as I already have a couple with BT courtesy of the person who set it up in the first place, rather it's the multiple providers that are a potential headache or compatibility with existing programs. When my eldest reappears in the middle of August, he can sort it out and make any necessary changes to the settings.