Peckris

Wow, your aircraft apprenticeship must have been with the TARDIS, then?

I like the 1937 crown, but being a type collector am content with having the proof set example, rather than a separate non-proof.

Nothing. That's why it's in the "Nothing whatsoever to do with coins area". :D

It doesn't look dipped or cleaned, and I'd give it GEF as a grade. But there is minor scuffing/scratching on obverse, and as said, there are better examples around. However, if the price is right... (It would be appreciated if you posted pictures rather than Word documents - I have frequent problems with Word and none of its substitutes would open it. Images, however, I have more options to open with than you could shake a stick at.)

What's a paint spray addict got to do with coins?? Even your full link (www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381461/Addict-Kelly-Gibson-arrested-sniffing-spray-paint-covered-silver-mugshot.html) says what it is...

The only bun pennies I found that weren't near flat discs, were the common-as-muck 1890/91/92 in VG (still a thrill to find though!). I was also convinced I had a Poor 1865/3 and spent hours poring over the date with a magnifying glass. Had I known then that the overdate is relatively difficult to see, I would have filed it as a definite. Sadly it went 'west' years ago, so I can't now confirm one way or the other. It was also good (before 1992) to find the occasional piece of George VI silver in change, though by then all earlier silver had long been hoovered up. Now, unless you're a Kew Gardens or Aquatics or 2008 20p mule hunter, there's absolutely nothing to look for beyond the quite frequent tasteless 'cuds' on modern coins.

I had a schoolfriend who found two 1950 pennies (separate occasions). Sadly I never had enough funds to buy his spare. Having said that, some years later I was able to use my civil service pension to buy an EF example, since upgraded.

Yes, there was certainly change checking fever in the 60s, though as a schoolboy in 1967 I came to the hobby right as the insane price rises began to occur. All the key dates, e.g. 1930 / 1925 halfcrowns, all the way down to 1926ME pennies etc, were well known by then, though how much to the general public I wouldn't like to say. The classic 'emergences' of the 60s were the 1950 and 1951 pennies (see below) that were shipped back from the West Indies in quantity and sold as 'rarities' (you want 1? 10? 100? I kid you not..), then in the late 60s there was the discovery (from 1968 onwards) that certain 1950s cupro-nickel was hard to find, and the prices rose to quite absurd levels.

I've heard that if you really want some, you have to go To Hanover..

I would like a few Russian coins as they were such big players in early modern European history, but most really don't appeal to me. This one does though with the monogram of Catherine the Great, except I'd have nowhere to put it as they're ginormous aren't they. Do you have any roubles Scott? I say, that's a bit personal isn't it? Oh, ROUBLES. You said roubles.

Shouldn't that be £200-300? I've heard of setting the estimates low to draw in the punters, but £20 is ridiculous. Your sarcasm is very deadpan, Rob

Yeah, that's the one bit about Dropbox that really did p*ss me off. Then I discovered 'symbolic links' (symlinks) which means you can just put those into the Dropbox folder and it will update/sync the original.

Ah, but by then, he IS someone else! That's the moral message I believe?

That's the whole beauty of it - he cheats, but ultimately has to learn more important sh*t than bedding women and winning on the races, especially as he has start again from scratch each morning!

I've been shifting some of the dross recently, and I have been surprised at what people will buy. Not for much - usually £0.99 or £1.99 but it all mounts up to a nice little pool for buying something I really want. I got a superb condition DVD of Groundhog Day recently, for 99p + postage - that sure beats even Tesco's bargain basement!

Yeah, but that depends on having Windows, right? Dropbox works across all platforms, and even though you only get 2GB free, you get 250MB extra for each person you introduce to Dropbox. It also works quietly in the background updating files, and syncs across all your devices. Also it's been around for years and has a top-notch reputation.

I think I can read that first word! Does it say spasebo?

Dropbox is private. And while the 2GB free option doesn't give you a whole lot of online space, so it's no good for music, pictures or videos, it is ample for my word processing documents, spreadsheets, databases, etc, plus all my browser bookmarks, address book, notepad, and small web pictures from Facebook etc. And I've still got half of the 2GB left. "Time Machine" is an automatic backup system for Macs - plug in a 500 GB external USB hard drive, nominate it as your computer's backup disk, and then just forget all about it. It keeps hourly backups for a day, daily backups for a month, and weekly? monthly? backups for as long as you have room on the disk. Like Dave, I'm a 'belt and braces' man - I also have a bag of memory sticks ranging from 2GB (personal documents) up to 64GB (my iTunes library)

I suppose he could try ... until you throw in the material fact that he was warned it's a worthless replica, and that eBay have certain rules about 'counterfeits'...

Dammit scott, you should have been Ernie Wise..

...then it disappears forever about half an hour after you post.

Obviously not a Time Machine or Dropbox user... oops.

Yeah, but what I meant by "ridiculous" was somewhere in the region of £24,499

thanks. I will go check mine now..do they have the same value? The values are roughly (from highest to lowest, medium grade) : 1919KN 1918KN, 1918H 1919H 1912H but in top grade, the 1919H probably ranks alongside 1918KN, it's a difficult one to find. 1950 and 1951 NON proofs are unusual in that the proofs are worth less, and it's the same with the brass 3d of those dates. Normally proofs are worth more.

Yeah, me too. In fact, when I set up my database (1994?) it contained very few fields back then, but one of them was "Where from". Pitifully, back then, a lot of the entries were the same, chosen from my drop down menu : "Circulation, late 60s"