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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.

OK, so you've probably heard Werewolves of London on the radio. Warren was a story teller, and a bloody good one at that. Genre? Rock with a twist. And some serious musicianship.

And it had to come eventually MrBE:

There's a hell of a lot of Peck's list that resonates with me and also, the incredible Warren Zevon. Lawyers, Guns & Money is blasting through the house as I write. Roland will be next.

The Strawberry Hill Boys (Strawbs) were the resident band at the Green Man Folk Club in West Ealing which I helped a friend mismanage in the early sixties, and Dave Cousins lived a pint's spit from the White Bear Folk Club in Hounslow which I later ran. Paddy's post has made me realise that I've got nothing of theirs to listen to unless I try to resurrect some old cassettes. Regardless of which, Windows Music Player tells me that I do a lot of this: David Bowie Roxy Music Incredible String Band Planxty Reverend Gary Davis Ry Cooder B B King Postmodern Jukebox Robert Johnson The Cranberries Little Feat Carolina Chocolate Drops Oscar Peterson DakhaBrakha Clapton & Cale Little Willies Norah Jones Jussi Bjorling acapellascience Cajun & Zydeco compilations

My best guess is that it has a diameter of 25 mm, which probably makes it a Pachinko token. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko

That's a very good call.I was working through alphabetically and I've only just got past Bangla. Kaithi fits side two very well but I think that we may be looking at two languages on this piece

There are subtle differences which, in the hands of someone more expert than I, can help differentiate between C18th and C19th texts. That being the time of a broader cultural shift to modern Devanāgarī .

Odd one. Because of the crudeness of the script I'm not entirely sure whether it's Sanskrit or Devanāgarī alphabet. I think I can see 25 in Sanskrit in the centre of the first image but that makes little sense in terms of Indian coinage.

130 £2.00 (100 of which are 1986) 38 £2.00 bimetal 560 x £1.00

I ask because there are quite a few "coins" on the market purporting to be Eddie and early George V farthings but which have the remains of visible lustre. These include the spurious watch fobs with the space around George's head neatly cut out.

Shouldn't that 1905 be mint darkened?

Yes, I realised that I'd repeated myself and changed the text

Coincommunityforum has drnsreedhar who is very good but rarely there

I'm using the free version v3.7 and I see none of this Edit: Well I'll be b******d! I've been using this for at least five years and never spotted that. Beers all round.

How do you do ½° rotation on Photoscape? I've been using it for years and never spotted this feature.

I do degrease some items if they are for my own collection, but not sale stock. Here's a recent purchase, before and after a drop of lighter fluid.

Without diving through lots of boxes at this time of night, I know that I have one or two of (probably) the first picture. Your third coin is quite exciting to me. Chances are that it's a mule. The reverse as shown comes from a character known as Paul Pry. "Just drop't in, hope I don't intrude" features on a number of tokens and one or two medals, but yours is the first of its type that I've seen. Tomorrow, I'll try to find some of my examples.

TBH, I think it's the quality of the piece that I find odd. Better than any other counter of the period that I've handled, and most of the farthings too.

I've had this piece for years and every time it gets dragged out, my opinion changes. At present, I think that it's a counter. Other times I think that it's a sadly defaced farthing. 22 mm, 4.52 gr.

The Chelsea Hotel in that condition is an easy £25 at present. I've only ever seen one other Forsyth and my guess is that it's worth a lot more than the Chelsea. Five years ago encased farthings were £5-7, now there are too many people chasing them.

These have become more popular recently, or at least the prices have risen quite a bit. You can also find encased US cents.

At last, I can retire. I have wheelbarrow loads of this excrement a few but select pieces for the discerning collector.