Gollum

Funny how many Numismatists have metal detectors too .

Mine is exactly the Same aa that and got it last Year from Aldi for €30 Typical, everyone has one but me, and when I want one it isn't around unless you have an amex platinum card, I used to like you Azda but you can go off some people really fast around here :lol:

Gollum, Here is a "new" QX3 Digital Blue Microscope for $49.95. It is basically the same as the QX5. http://www.ebay.com/itm/QX3-Computer-Microscope-Digital-Blue-New-/260900460896?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cbee11960#ht_500wt_1180 Thanks for that sadly.. Not available to United Kingdom

I have quite a few coins in the category you're talking about! E.g. modern, quite high grade, low value, that sort of thing. Sure, go ahead, rub it in why dont you... what do YOU call modern anyway. Nice this forum, everyone else has the coins except me.. I MEANT - spare coins! Coins that would suit you down to the ground!! Going cheep How cheap ?, I am a budgie.

Ok returning to this again !. Hypothetical question. If I have a rare penny that is covered in verdigris, I have 2 options for it, one being the bin, the other is I clean it and polish it and it looks nice and shiny afterward, surely that is better than throwing it in the bin, surely saving any coin is better than throwing it away, what if one day it becomes the only example left, is everyone going to moan that it was saved by cleaning it. Answers on the back of a penny black please.

I have quite a few coins in the category you're talking about! E.g. modern, quite high grade, low value, that sort of thing. Sure, go ahead, rub it in why dont you... what do YOU call modern anyway. Nice this forum, everyone else has the coins except me..

Oh just great Tom, as if it's not enough I am bored, you send me to Coin News and the first article is about the ruddy Titanic !, nice, bored and then I get a sinking feeling !.

I would like to learn but all them people on a coin forum I visit think I iz an idgit. So I thought I might go to ELC in town and get sum edjumakachen 1st, now what I mean like. I am still bored.

I would Ski, but I thought I may get bored.

It just gets worse, I am more bored than earlier, and that is worse than bored, now i am super bored, in fact I am super duper bored, on top of that the wife forgot my Rizlas ( I smoke home mades ) and there are no shops open and no transport anyway, so I am attempting to use craft paper and it is vile !. How bored can a man get, well, let me tell you, bored is not really bored untill you get as bored as I am, now that isn't normal bored, it's really bored you know the kind of bored that goes with watching such things as x factor, or BB, now that kind of bored is bored, but even saying that I am more bored than that even. I am still bored. Nobody loves me here, or at home either.

Only if your a member of Reading coin club Still not heard from Frank either.

I am so bored that I am really bored, more bored than I was bored before, and 3 times as bored as I was bored earlier. I mean Bored bored, so bored I am bored, the kind of bored where you are really so bored that you are really really bored. I guess I am so bored that I am bored rigid, and that is really bored, the kind of bored where if your bored you want to hit your skull against the wall out of being bored. ah well I guess it isn't as bored as I was bored yesterday, now that was extremely bored, the kind of bored that meant you were so bored you wanted to take a gun abd shoot your brain out of it's skull for some fun. I am bored.

Having watched some of the chatter here I can get a sarcastic note for less than a tenner thanks Debbie. I can imagine it now, an envelope with a tanner in it and a sarcastic note saying "what did you expect"

Blimey !, £105 http://www.tts-group.co.uk/shops/tts/Products/PD1726995/Digital-Blue-QX5-Microscope/ It just grew up

But watch out for the Jersey/Guernsey/Isle on man etc etc which are not widely accepted as legal tender.... Actually I was going to bring those up later, I can not understand why they can strike some really pretty coins and yet we seem to have "dull" ones. Are we just boring as a nation in this respect. Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder with some of these!! What have they done to Kate!!! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-Coins-Collectable-Prince-WILLIAM-and-KATE-Middleton-/160617668726?pt=UK_Royalty&hash=item25658f2076 Nowt, that's her pre makeup face . Well ok, so they made her look a little like wurzel gummidge.

Trouble of this it is impossible to tell minor die errors from dealers lists or Ebay. At fairs ditto with the hustle and bustle and suspect lighting. I take a good quality x7 glass.I also have those tiny x45 & x60 pocket scopes which have LED lights.(I bought 20 from HK)sold a few on Ebay to cover my cost & have plenty left...I may sell a few more but they are so handy...almost disposable. Peter are they really any good and how much for one of those scopes if you sell them ?. I want one but not if its expensive to me.

I see there is a for sale section but I can not find a wanted one, is that deliberate or just an omission. I want lots of coins ( yeah I am talking those you lot call junk but not scrap ) to start with. I mean how many of you have old pennies laying about you want to get shot of, or dare i say half pennies, should be a lot of beginners happy to grab them ust to start a collection with. Bugger Ebay, offer them to your inexperienced and gullible new members ( yep that's me ). Gollum is now in the scrap metal business I suppose.

I've got more than 10 available too. That doesn't mean to say the one you get will be mark free though. The one in the picture isn't, and the other side isn't shown. The picture may or may not be the coin you receive. Dave Watson is a member of this forum, and has told me he will ensure I get one that has either minimal or no marks on it and in a wallet.

But watch out for the Jersey/Guernsey/Isle on man etc etc which are not widely accepted as legal tender.... Actually I was going to bring those up later, I can not understand why they can strike some really pretty coins and yet we seem to have "dull" ones. Are we just boring as a nation in this respect.

In his magnificent design for the gold kilo coin for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Sir Anthony has remained true to his sculptural ideals, creating an imposing design that took all the skill of the Royal Mint’s hugely experienced craftsman to embody. Anyone want a job, says a lot for their craftsmen, they obviously have blind monkeys working for them

Uglier than a churchill crown ?.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130579916384

Swine As a diversion from this matter, is it true that ALL old english notes are still exchangeable with the mint for its modern counterpart ?. I ask as someone I know offered me some old green pound ones and a old £10 one for 30p each. Could be a bargain.

???!! If you can afford one of those, it sounds like you should stop buying scrap copper to clean and start taking an interest in this sort of thing instead! Guinea Groat Half crown That was a one of for her birthday shortly after we met and married, mainly because some Billy BS she went out with promised her one and over the years it never materialised, so I made sure it did. I moan about her but she's looked after me for 12 years now, and believe me, that takes a lot.