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Right now I'm searching for a mis-filed medal and listening to this:

An Ex described me as a serial entrepreneur, and it wasn't meant as a compliment. It's just that I'm better at working for myself, or as an employer, than being an employee. In the late 60s before Uni I was a Coin Dealer's runner, buying and selling at Seabys 3-4 times a week for my father. After university, freshly minted and full of enthusiasm I had absolutely no idea what to do. I'd worked at Pinewood in the sound dept but the British film industry was going through one of its periodic slow deaths and there was little work. All of my mother's family were publicans and I took to that like a duck to water for 15 years or so but at the cost of a couple of marriages. I'm a language and linguistics grad and started using that for the first time, ending up at DHL learning about freight and courier trade. For a while I was the International Trouble Shooter/Hatchet Man. 82 countries in 3 years. Since then I've owned and operated Freight Forwarding companies, restaurants,hotels, shop fitting companies and at one time the only Asian outside catering company certified by the KLBD (Kosher London Beth Din). And I'm neither Asian nor Jewish. And now I sell a few medals and tokens. I kid myself I'm retired but there is always something on the boil. It's not the money, it's the involvement.

And now sadly my little bubble has burst. China is now doing medals, well someone is. This one's laughable, but so were the Gothic Florins when they first appeared. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Victorian-medal-first-order-of-merit-1887-jubilee-bronze-medal-3-x-1-4/132717804593?hash=item1ee698fc31:g:CPYAAOSwZ~hbGOWN

No one is "entitled to an opinion". They are however allowed an informed opinion. By which I mean that they know what they are talking about and not just spouting the last thing they heard /read.

There is the oft repeated anecdote from the Bodyline series: Douglas Jardine had appeared at the door of the Australian dressing room, objecting that he had heard himself described as a "bastard" on the field. Vic Richardson, the vice-captain, turned to his team. "All right, which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?"

I'm hoping that he doesn't get too clued up on medals and tokens. I buy a few bits from him for stock and get good deals.

Thomas Kettle, not Henry and this is not one of his pieces that I've ever seen before.

Sounds like Steffi. She still buys whatever Geo IV I put up, and still takes forever to pay.

That's all well and good, but how did they get together in the first place?

The shuttlecock has been done, sort of. https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=321715

No, this is an entirely separate issue which we've discussed on another thread, Ebay's worst offerings. " Another new gitbay gripe is that if you look up say, 1925 half crown, and then go to Sold Items, something new and exciting happens. If you click See original listing against a Sold item to determine its quality against the one you have for sale; you're going to run into an entirely new and different current listing. It's only been this weekend and I hope that it's just a glitch, but this could be yet another nail in the coffin. "

FFS!!! A Paddington received 116 bids and went (supposedly) for £16,100?? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PADDINGTON-BEAR-IN-PADDINGTON-STATION-2018-50P-RARE-ACCIDENTAL-RELEASE/113047510762?hash=item1a52281eea:g:x1gAAOSwcfdbGPzH

Another new gitbay gripe is that if you look up say, 1925 half crown, and then go to Sold Items, something new and exciting happens. If you click See original listing against a Sold item to determine its quality against the one you have for sale; you're going to run into an entirely new and different current listing. It's only been this weekend and I hope that it's just a glitch, but this could be yet another nail in the coffin.

Is this any clearer?

Whenever possible I use CD mailers with two sheets of card either side of the coin. Been lucky so far, even with customs declarations attached.

As far as doppelgangers go, I've always thought that this Lackington's token looked suspiciously like Stewie Griffin from Family Guy

This tells all: http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php/topic,6685.msg43164.html#msg43164

We always used fall for that season. Then some smug bastard imported l'automne from France, and down the slippery slope we went.

Gotten is a pure English form as the past participle of Got, if somewhat archaic. There are a lot of UK pubs called the Litten Tree, another example of the ten ending, this time as an adjective.

Try coincommunity.com Their Canadian section is very lively and knowledgeable.

The lions on the shield have a marked resemblance to poodles.

Just had a week on the Norfolk Broads for the first time and, apart from the monsoon conditions getting there (windscreen wipers failed at Thetford) it was beautiful.

Considering how much I'd had to drink before I wrote that, it came out remarkably comprehensible.

Toots is on in the background when I'm not sorting coins and stuff. Can't keep still to Mr Hibbert, very bad policy when handling proofs. Nice to see another John Downland afficion.

To photograph edges, first get yourself an old fashioned torch. One with a central bulb and, more importantly, a reflector. Take out the reflector and throw the rest of the torch away. The new LED versions are much better anyway. Standing the reflector so that from above, it becomes a dish place your edge marked piece as horizontally as you can in this bowl. As you're lowering it in, check that you can read the edge description. i.e. it's not upside down. This makes the later stuff easier. Now as you hover over the coin with your camera at an appropriate angle you'll see the edge inscription reflected in the bowl you have created, only now it will be in mirror writing. Take your pics and then reverse them out in your favourite editing software.