Peckris

Welcome to the Forum brg, that looks like a great link! Downloading as we speak (Despite rudely claiming that Macs can't read it, I have to tell the site owner that Mac computers have been able to read PDFs since the year dot )

It could be the Power Supply Unit - ok, it's a repair, but if the laptop is otherwise in good condition, it's worth having done.

Ok, got Englands striking history and Coincraft 2000 What other forums do you recommend? Im planning to get a Henry VII coin first to start my series. Will do my research and ask for opinion. Sly, mean, suspicious, underhanded, paranoid... are you sure you don't want to start somewhere else?

Put your pictures up here. (There's a pinned topic in the beginners forum about how to get your picture file sizes reduced). There are many members who can give you advice.

Apparently our own dear Queen was an avid listener of BBC Radio's "What's My Line?" - she really wanted to know...

Damn! So that's why my washing machine stopped working...

Bonnie Prince... oh, wait.

Not wanting to spoil the punchline, but the apparent true heir to the throne is much closer to you than to me

It's the completists that do it! They'll have a decent run of lustrous G-V pennies, and their 1915 will be lagging behind all the others. When there's a gap to fill, book values go out of the window. Having said that, Coin Yearbook 2014 says £80 in UNC for this coin, so grade overestimation will play a part too. Shiny must equal UNC. Weren't many of the coins produced in WW1 in much the same state, due more to die wear than coin wear ? A coin in the original mint bag might not look UNC given such circumstances. Agreed - but that particular example doesn't seem to have the overall weakness of die wear, more the selective rubbing to the highest points of what looks otherwise to be a reasonable strike.

Without checking online, and probably making a fool of myself, didn't Edward IV's line not get very far on the throne (with his brother Richard III blamed for killing his sons). Maybe it was Edward III in the program ? cheers Garrett. Actually, the royal line gets interrupted a fairly regular intervals : William the Conqueror; bugsy's turn during the Wars of the Roses; Henry VII (a very dubious claim); James I; William III; George I; though it's been fairly secure since then. But the Royal claim to trace their line back to Alfred is just laughable. The whole Richard III killing the Princes thing was a total posthumous frame-up anyway. 1) The Princes were LIVING in the Tower (a royal residence), not prisoners; 2) they were then declared illegitimate as Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was arguably not a legal marriage; 3) Richard didn't try to dispose of the many other offspring ahead of him in the line of succession, e.g. all of Edward's daughters, and his older brother George's children (it was actually Henrys VII and VIII who saw to that); 4) Henry VII passed an Act of Attainder against Richard accusing him of treason and all manner of barbarous acts, though strangely it doesn't even mention the two Princes; 5) Margaret Beaufort, Henry's mum, had far more reason to see off the two boys than Richard, who had been voted king by Parliament; 6) the rumours didn't start until after Richard's death, and no-one actually knows what happened to the Princes... and so the list goes on.

crop from 1967 penny Hmm. That's worse than my 150 dpi scans blown up in Photoshop! Well, certainly no better.

Unfortunately those pictures are in the execrable Photofucket, so the same size as they are here Do you have any selected enlargements David? Those would prove whether this thing is any good or not.

I guess the point of them being so 'unrealistic ugly' is to make it impossible to convert them to a 'real fake'! After all, real fakes are worth 3 figures on eBay. Is making an accurate copy of coin of the Realm not forgery? or does the law only cover only items that are currently legal tender? Yes, I think the law only covers legal tender. But if you faked a non-current coin with the intent to deceive and con people out of their hard-earned, that would be illegal too (though a different law). Now you're talking!!

I will only wear mine along with a white version. As for Ed the Red, you must be joking??? He's turning out not much less a shade of blue than the Vampire Cameron!

"Funny ha ha" or "funny peculiar"?

They were indeed. I still have nightmares...

Interesting that two bidders thought it worth at least £40, including 2***8 who'd chased it all the way from £10. The underbidder dropped out at £25 which I'd have said was its absolute maximum value. Too true. I'd certainly also place the obverse at only EF

Curiously, it now reminds me of the familiar 5 over 3 (as in 1865 pennies)

I'm a Mac person myself, but I've had laptops go as dead as dodo on me before now. The battery was usually flat, but the power adaptor wouldn't work either. It turned out there was a software cure that was to do with the Power Management System. You had to disconnect EVERYTHING (remove battery, power adaptor, etc) then press a certain key combination, wait ten seconds, reconnect the power, and try again. It worked more often than not. (Does Windows have a similar magic key cure?) When 'not', it turned out usually to be the laptop's internal Power Supply Unit, which was more costly to replace, but cheap compared to losing your laptop and all its precious unbacked up data...

Holly came from Miami FLA Hitch-hiked her way across the USA Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her legs and she was a he They don't write songs like that anymore! I am not so sure the rest of the lyrics would be quite as socially politically correct these days. What, you mean Candy came from out on the IslandIn the back room she was everybody's darling But she never lost her head Even when she was giving head She says, "Hey, babe, Take a walk on the wild side." Said, "Hey, babe, Take a walk on the wild side." And the colored girls go "Doo di doo di doo do do doo..." Hmm, yes I see what you mean

Knowing him he might well wanna be Henry IX - he thinks VIII got a bad rap. George VI was really an Albert wasn't he? Edward VII certainly was. As for Charlie-boy, he's got another 4 wives to go yet, before he can call himself another Henry..

Reminds me of one time I was checking on what my son was looking at on the computer. Turns out he was looking at youtube.com - he must have had a difficult time finding what he wanted to look at because he couldn't spell "breast" right and spelt it as "brest". I wasn't mad because of what he wanted to look at but he has never lived down not being able to spell a part of the feminine anatomy correctly. Now he is getting ready for college and I still bring up that incident from 7-8 years ago. That's great! I was too busy trying to spell baksyde myself! LATEST NEWS Stuart comes out live on predecimal. You crack me up! I of course meant l'm a ligs and arz MAN myself! I understood you Stuart! I started off as a legs man meself, but came late to the exquisite nature of a pert 'baksyde' (I'm thinking I'd best rephrase part of that).

Holly came from Miami FLA Hitch-hiked her way across the USA Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her legs and she was a he They don't write songs like that anymore!

I'm just reading about (the real) Richard III. Apparently the Tudor usurpers got some rhyme going about "A Cat and a Rat ruled over by a Hog"!

I am going to start using them, but I haven't done so yet ... what's the insurance like?Same levels as the RM! For heavier packages, above a letter I mean, they've cornered the market! Do look them out...truly impressed!And you've been employed by them for ... how long now?