Peckris

I bought a HP netbook with Windows 7 on, to tide me over when my Mac was being repaired. I thought "actually, this doesn't look bad at all". Then I tried to do a few things I'd done in OS X - e.g. Secure Empty Trash, create encrypted folders, etc. HAH! "Not available on Windows Home / Starter edition". And there's no email client either. Typical Microsoft rip off. It is pretty though, I'll give it that.

The rich choccie eclair please 1949 You'll need that coat : 'twas -14ºC in these yerr parts yesterday evening

Actually it had ended by the time I got round to messaging him, but by none of us doing so we are our own worst enemies. If everybody messaged sellers mis-describing their coins, then its incidence, although unlikely to be totally eliminated, would at least dramatically reduce. Yes there are many instances of it on e-bay, but that doesn't make it right. I know it's a bit heavy for something as minor as this, but to quote Edmund Burke; 'All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing'. Q.E.D. Hear hear, Derek! Well said [shuffles his own soapbox sheepishly out of sight] Famous example! Sadly, all too rare. I believe the war didn't stop as in stop, it did continue for another 4 years ski I think we knew what he meant though

Alas, my condition won't allow me to 'do it right' any more But, a very happy Christmas to you all anyway!! ('Twas reading -14ºC on my dashboard thermometer when I drove back here).

Should be approx. 28.4g. As it is likely that only one or two (if any) 1934 crowns found their way to China, then any defects to the original coin will be repeated on the reproduction. Essentially the process used is for the forger to employ the genuine coin as a hub from which he then cuts a die and ultimately copy coins from that die. For this reason, many of the copies are far from high grade and can be as low as fine. Unfortunately I do not know the particulars of any 1934 forgeries but someone else on here may know, failing that a search of the internet might yield an answer. Incidentally, there was a previous wave of forgeries emenating from the Middle East. I have now weighed the crown as advised and I am pleased to say it weighed 28.3g. Which hopefully is within the tolerance of the accepted weight of this crown and the weighing scales. With all your advice, I shall now consider my next move. Thank you for your help. Out of interest, which area of the country are you in? I'm in the East Of England Ok - well if the NE then there's the York Fair, if the SE there's quite a few in London, but if the E Midlands then my knowledge of fairs has run out (though if not too far from the W Midlands there's the Midlands Fair near the NEC). Either way, that's a rich source of expertise and advice on your coin.

No, quite. What is it with these older, non coin collecting females ? Am I a goose being fattened until my liver bursts and can be used in fois gras ? I mean for Christ's sake, I've basically been pinned down for 9 hours and had food driven down my throat. I'm all in favour of a bit of festive spirit and I try to reciprocate, but approach me with a pie (any filling) for several weeks and I will gun you down like a dog. That’s the thing these females are lethal! The sheer quantity of chocolate that appears to circulate through this house in December is phenomenal and its all female doing. If I am to even mention the word coin in their presence I am told off or told to make sure I keep those ‘dirty old pieces of metal’ away from them or the living room. Speaking as a male chocaholic I'd like to put the record straight - and it was so in my case even before I saw the lovely Ms Binoche in 'Chocolat'. Happy Crimbo everyone !

Should be approx. 28.4g. As it is likely that only one or two (if any) 1934 crowns found their way to China, then any defects to the original coin will be repeated on the reproduction. Essentially the process used is for the forger to employ the genuine coin as a hub from which he then cuts a die and ultimately copy coins from that die. For this reason, many of the copies are far from high grade and can be as low as fine. Unfortunately I do not know the particulars of any 1934 forgeries but someone else on here may know, failing that a search of the internet might yield an answer. Incidentally, there was a previous wave of forgeries emenating from the Middle East. I have now weighed the crown as advised and I am pleased to say it weighed 28.3g. Which hopefully is within the tolerance of the accepted weight of this crown and the weighing scales. With all your advice, I shall now consider my next move. Thank you for your help. Out of interest, which area of the country are you in?

So, let me get this straight. It's a 2009 £1 with missing letters, that's been overstruck on a 2008 £2 without missing letters but with a missing dot?

A Nice Pair! (To quote a certain 1970s record company...). Would it be rude to ask how much they cost? (I'm in the market for similar bun penny items providing not too expensive). I pm'd you Peckris Seen it - and replied deja vu, Peck !!! Oh, I saw that . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oh, I saw that

I've got both Freeman and Gouby, but I still haven't got my head round all the penny dies for 1860 to 1862 David And that's not counting Jerrams!

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There's a big M on one side, and on the other, what looks like Ma Andrews from down the road and her cat leaping up to knock the food bowl out of her hand.

If the "unsuspecting person" was a contemporary of the newly minted coin (which is why a lot of them were plated) then that gives the coin a reduced value (to us) but a certain historical interest. There was an entire cottage industry devoted to fooling people that a farthing or sixpence was a half sov. Risky though - it kept the hangman in business...

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Welcome! Some of us are just pretty ...

Hm. That appears to be a 2008 £2 with legend intact scott

It looks AUNC to me, though the pictures are rather small. As to value, if it's not Chinese then you're looking at a minimum of about £3000 but possibly quite a bit more at auction.

A Nice Pair! (To quote a certain 1970s record company...). Would it be rude to ask how much they cost? (I'm in the market for similar bun penny items providing not too expensive).

Agreed. The whole area to the left of the 9 looks grooved and as if possibly tooled. But if you were able to find a few more ... that would be evidence of a filled die and suddenly the coin would acquire rarity status. I speak from experience - I have a 1964 (coincidentally) sixpence where the I of GRATIA is totally missing. However no-one has found another, so - completely counter-intuitively - it has no interest or 'rarity' value, being "merely" unique!

Well I look in ALL threads where there are new posts, just to save you duplicating the effort in future

You've already put these in another thread Az, or am I suffering déjà vu?

It'll be interesting to see if I get a reply. I've also sent him a "FYI" rather than a question. Usually I get a reply, so it will be interesting to see if that happens this time.

Seriously.. NOT! Do you know how many possible permutations there are in a 44 character string that can be a mix of letters (upper / lower case), numerals, and non-alphameric characters? I have not done the maths, but I'm prepared to bet it's mind boggling. As for the computer generating passwords - don't forget each one generated would have to be applied to the file concerned, then the OS would have to 'accept' or 'reject' it - all of which takes time; multiply that by a vast number and 'millennia' isn't much of an exaggeration.