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Flash

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  1. Excellent, sorry should have said Bombardier but my eye-sights no where near good enough to have got the shoulder titles and wound stripe. Get all the details together as soon as you can it's very important. I was lucky enough to be able to talk to my Grand-dad about his service in the second World War although sadly he was completely paralysed with a stroke just before we go to the end.

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  2. If it helps, and I'm sure you know but the image shows he was a full Corporal in the Royal Artillery and he had been fighting for three years when it was taken or in total if the War had ended at that point.

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  3. Really sorry if this is a stupid question but which UK based slabbing company is the one to deal with (Assuming there are more than one). I've shied away from all things slabbed and purposely know nothing about it however,  needs must when the devil farts in your general direction.

    Thanks and luv from Dave

  4. you might be right although I don't recall it being that secure, I'm sure I popped to the shops when Paul young was on (support) and also a well known local ex dJ who doesn't deserve a mention jogged right through the crowd doing a "charity" mission or something

    Other than that a brilliant concert but if I went now with just my wife it would cost more than our first car!

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  5. I had a lot of luck with the original Explorer (XS?) moving onto the Explorer II when it first came out about 2003. We used to test it on cut quarters and it was the only machine that never missed.

  6. Has anyone had any experience with coin sorters/counters for use with pre decimal and foreign. Obviously the ones off the shelf are designed for circulating British currency but are there any whereby you can alter the diameters to sort for example a bulk lot of Shillings, Florins & halfcrowns. Following on from there something which will sort foreign in the same way. I know you're never going to get it by country but lumping coins of the same diameter together would save me hours by itself. 

    Lots of luv

    Dave

  7. Typical ebay seller my arse - don't lump us all together, some of us have made a living from it for 20 years so we must be doing something right. 

     

    I mean responsible, no hype, correctly graded and identified original coins etc. There are a few of us that do just that and to compare us to this bloke is a fcking insult

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  8. 8 hours ago, 1949threepence said:

    I've seen one of those 5p or shilling meters at a working museum somewhere. If I remember correctly, you pushed the coin into a tight slot as far as it would go, where it would hold, until you turned a small lever clockwise to drop the coin in.   

    That's how I got started with coins. A friends father was a gas man and he found a Victorian copper Farthing in good very fine condition in a meter whilst emptying it. Can't remember the date though but a nice present in 1973 to a four year old.

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  9. 3 hours ago, blakeyboy said:

    I tried to help her out years ago when she first started- she claimed she was in a fix dealing with a collection of a dying partner.

    I advised on various penny as to what they actually were- it was all very pleasant, and she was really thankful, and thenall of a sudden I have the most abusive emails I've ever had. When I politely pointed them out to her she was very apologetic and claimed that some guy in Norfolk had hacked her computer.....

    That's pretty much identical to my experience with her.

    Not 100% sure but I think I sold her the original coin in this thread

    Luv From Dave

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