Rob

The die axis on a hammered coin can be anything from 0-360 degrees.

It's ok saying synchronise Chrome with Google and Firefox etc, but where does it store the bookmark info? The safest way to protect info surely has to be when you do it yourself? If I let Google save it, they will just spam me with crap related to my deposited data, just like any other digital company that gets its revenue from advertising. No.1 has already changed the email account to gmail and changed the internet explorer program to Chrome from Firefox, but will have to ask if they are linked when he is back on shore as I don't have any control over these things.

Good news! I just had number 4 here on a surprise visit and he has restored the old bookmarks by somehow resurrecting the old ones used with Firefox before the update - hooray! Downside though is that I can't log into the wife's eBay. It thinks she is logging in but won't recognise her password. Bring back Windows 7 with its cookie clearing facility so I can start with a clean sheet. I'm losing the will to live.

I have always put haymarking down to insufficiently mixed copper to make the alloy, this being the usual admix to obtain the required purity. The melting point of copper is about 100 degrees C higher than that of silver, so it is not enough just to melt the silver, throw in the requisite amount of copper and expect the alloy to be thoroughly mixed because the temperature isn't necessarily high enough. Whilst I have no definitive proof that this is the reason for the black spots, it is probably significant that there is far less haymarking seen on gold coins which can be explained by the fact that the two metals are only 20 degrees apart in their melting points. Copper (II) oxide is black. If it was due to a process other than mixing metals such as the treatment of blank flans, I would have expected to see similar percentages of coins with haymarking irrespective of the metal.

Excellent, the internet will presumably have also thrown up a lot of talk about copies of Caesar's elephant. There's a touch of Nelson about this excuse.

It is the same handwriting both sides and is a Boyd ticket. The GHG signifies that the coins came from Boyd's maternal uncle, George Henry Gaviller and were probably inherited on his death in 1880. Further reading can be had in the extensive foreword to the Boyd catalogue. The price code is made from a mixture of archaic Greek and Runes. This presumably was Boyd assigning a value to his coins.

It means the positions of the two shields in question are reversed. e.g. This is my York 1697 first bust shilling with the French and Irish shields the wrong way round. Normally for William III coins the English arms divide the date and going clockwise is followed by the Scottish, French and Irish shields. In this instance the Irish shield is opposite the English shield, but furthermore, it also tells us something about the person who set the dies in the coining press as the only arms in the correct place are the French, these normally sitting behind the base of the obverse. All the other three are in the wrong place with the die axis 90 degrees out, so we can deduce that the dies were aligned in the press using the French ones as the guide relative to the obverse. A seriously rare variety, with the only other example believed extant being the ex Parsons and Jackson Kent specimen in VF.

Halse, A 29mm diameter pale yellow written in ink on one side only.

Thanks. As ever with computers, if you don't know the exact name, filename, or whatever, you're screwed. If I search for 'This PC' it goes straight there. Now all they have to do is communicate the differences to stop illiterates like me asking stupid simple questions. Or better still leave names unchanged.

Ok, so I have Chrome. It still doesn't overcome the problem of not having 'My Computer', which I used previously as it was possible to drill down through the level and find files, whilst conveniently telling you what was a hard drive, removable or whatever. Basically, I knew where I was. Removing that ability was frankly unhelpful and I wish I could go back a version or two. First I need to be able to find the external hard drive, then somehow extract the bookmarks from the backed up data. Clues please.

The copper ESC1383 (same dies as the ESC1382 above) that I kept is a better coin than either of the two silver pieces shown, so getting rid of these two silver pieces was the logical move. I just didn't anticipate the difficulty replacing the ESC1380 with something other than the dies seen on the ESC1382 above.

I'm backed up onto a separate hard drive. Unfortunately I had my system updated to Windows 10 at Christmas, so no longer have 'my computer' at my disposal to look for files. I'm not sure where the drive is now other than C being the hard drive. The browser symbol is a wheel coloured red, green, yellow and a blue centre (Google?) - no idea what it is called.

That's one I regret. I had the reverse duplicated with a copper 1383, so was hoping to find the same obverse with a different reverse. Just never happened.

New problem. A couple weeks ago I was trying to tidy up my bookmarks by eliminating 100 or so I didn't need any more, but when right clicking and deleting it cleared all my bookmarks. Is there any way of extracting bookmarks only from an old backup, or is this just wishful thinking? I don't want to go back to the last backup which was a couple of months ago as I will then lose too much data. Ta.

Not knowing about and lying are two completely different things. Lying is knowing you are wrong and deliberately misleading. If you are desperate to give her a negative, buy something. Common sense dictates that you don't waste your money on something that is obviously crap. The counterargument is that if the buyer knows no better than the seller, then both are happy, so where is the reason for the negative? Negatives appear when an item has been misrepresented, not incorrectly described to the initiated.

I don't think she is lying at all, just ignorant. I suspect she knows as much about coin grading as I do about dress sizes. There's a £2 listed as B/UNC, because most of them are. Any Tom, Dick or Harry can find a coin, which must be valuable as it's old and will list it according to what appears to sell well. You have to remember that we are very much in a minority when it comes to numismatics - the rest of the world just spend coins.

1858 halfpennies are a complex group. There are 8/6, 8/7, large date over small date 8/7 and 1858, widths, font sizes and most things in between. Because of the large mintage there will be a lot of varieties, but given halfpennnies are unloved, I can't see the varieties being any more popular.

That's a normal 5.

So I was right. I was responsible, albeit only partly for the deterioration in service. Be careful what you laugh at Peck, I'm more dangerous than you realise. Edited to add that seconds after I posted this, it left the page and went to the home page uninvited. Something is a bit unstable.

I assumed it was me applying the kiss of death to anything computing related

I have no problem with the existence of two examples from the same worn dies. I note the marks to the neck and rims are in different places.

No recorded mintage, but very common as they were struck over a number of years. Yours has graffiti in the angles that has been partially removed and it looks to have suffered from a bit of haymarking. I suggest it was dug up at some point looking at the surfaces.

And the edge? That's the thing that copies always fall down on. Out of sight, out of mind (invisible idiot)

There's nothing wrong with it, but the question has to be asked, if you were uncertain, why buy it in the first place?

A decent demonstration of rusted dies.