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Agreed. There's no point as they're not actually improving the system. If anything, some of the OS "upgrades" are actually inferior to the product they replace. Moreover, you're left to guess what is what. For example, when I first got Windows 7 as a replacement to XP, it took me several weeks to find out why the "prtScn" key no longer worked to get a screenshot. It had been replaced by "snipping tool", in accessories. The user is treated as though s/he has psychic powers. Also, everybody instantly knows that snipping tool means screenshot, rather than something used for cropping pics. It's so blindingly obvious isn't it My mobile products are all android, and I deliberately avoided downloading and installing their new sub systems, such as nougat etc, as from "lollipop" onwards, many users were complaining that the upgrade completely "bricked" their devices - "bricked" being a term for wrecked, in case you haven't already encountered it.

What's even more worrying - and forgive my naivety here - is that they are now producing pennies artificially worn. For example, the 1933 fake shown in the link, looks as though it has been in circulation for 35 years or so. I didn't even realise fake circulation wear was possible. link to "worn" 1933 fake penny

That's truly irritating. I also agree with Rob on this business of incessantly re-naming things for the sake of it. Trying to master computers is a tough enough business for the ordinary bog standard user (ie: the overwhelming majority) as it is, without further confusing the issue. I also dislike Windows 10, which we use at work. I'll stick with Windows 7 until it no longer received upgrades.

Well done, Jon. I know it was a superb specimen, which he got from LCA. Not through auction, but from their choice English coins for direct sale. Can't recall the exact price he paid, but it was quite expensive.

It's completely inane. OK as a joke once in a while, but too many now. Makes the seller look like a complete idiot.

Well there's F***kall on Rockall, so not far off.

Thanks Chris. I remember the game Matt @Nordle11 had when he was looking for a decent specimen. So thought I would snap it up. Not surprisingly David Craddock was asking £135 for it. Well worth it though.

As above.

Received an e mail earlier today from LCA, saying that they had added more pictures. Tried to go back into the March catalogue, but nothing doing. Can't get in. Just a blank page. Anybody else had an issue with it?

There won't effectively be a hard border. Irish and Northern Irish tradesmen have already said they'll just use the back roads in and out.

Also pleased with this 1904 penny I got from David Craddock. It's not the easiest date to get in tip top condition. Uncirculated with 95% lustre - ever so lightly toning. Unfortunately, evidence of a fingerprint on the reverse, and there is a small carbon spot on the obverse. Think I've finally resolved the colour disparity.

8 Labour resignations, now 3 Conservative ones. Worryingly frank statements from both sides. Extremists in both parties. With Brexit, the cliff edge of no deal gets ever closer. Now just 37 days away. Yet still Westminster clings to the obviously vain hope that the EU will give way on the backstop and re-open the deal for further negotiation. How unrealistically full of their own arrogant self importance our politicians are. What a complete and utter crumbling sad shambles our country has become.

Nor that sneaky little get out for just EF called a(bout)/UNC, trace of lustre.

Good to see you still here, even if you have lost enthusiasm for the hobby

They've also started faking the 1919KN penny. Actually, at first glance, it's not a bad copy and might have some people fooled, were it not for the fact that you just don't get them BU with full lustre. On close examination it's very obviously a fake. link to it

It is madness. Although not the forum member @Madness who, for a second, I thought you were referring to.

Complete insanity. Absolutely lost for words that any coin collector could do this. Poor guy.

I agree. Quite apart from it being specific denominations that are faked, as opposed to monarchs, I'd also say that anybody referencing the website will immediately hone in on the denomination, and then chronologically to the date/type.

Isn't it just, Pete. Choice item.

Thanks - useful info. A different one I tried

You can always screenshot the image. This is lot 125 from the current auction:- (or do the words eggs and Grandmother spring to mind again? )

If, after expanding by clicking the little box with the outward pointing arrows, you want to expand further:- If using a desktop with a mouse, turn the little wheel at the front of the mouse, forward. That will expand the pic. Pinch grip expansion doesn't seem to work for these photos on a mobile device, for whatever reason. Not on my tablet or smartphone, any rate.

Making absolutely crystal clear which is genuine and which is fake. Such as genuine as the left hand picture and fake as the right hand one, with clearly emboldened "GENUINE" AND "FAKE" below the respective photos.

It's a phrase we use sarcastically in the UK to kind of ironically underline how appallingly bad something is. For example, we might say, "I took a look at that house today, and apart from the roof falling in, the garden completely overgrown, dry rot and damp everywhere, it's a great place"

Great idea, Richard. No idea if such a site already exists, and not sure whether too huge too accomplish. I'd imagine not, actually, as I can see it being a site which is started with the known fakes, and then frequently updated. So huge in the long term, but added to bit by useful bit, as it were. Seeing genuine and fake side by side is most definitely the way forward in terms of ID'ing fakes in my opinion.