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    What is it?

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    Ahh thanks for that it explains why its only slightly smaller than the halfgroat I bought the weight would have been another big giveaway.

    Overall very pleased with it though , thanks for the id info very useful.

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    Stuff to Make Us Laugh

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    Posted · Edited by copper123

    Thieves stole a £2.8m solid gold toilet from Blenheim Palace in an "audacious raid" which took just five minutes, a court has heard.

    The toilet was plumbed in and fully functioning as part of an art exhibition at the Oxfordshire stately home in September 2019.

    Michael Jones, 39, from Divinity Road, Oxford denies a charge of burglary. Frederick Sines, 36, also known as Frederick Doe, from Windsor, and 41-year-old Bora Guccuk, from west London, have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to transfer criminal property.

    Their trial at Oxford Crown Court was told the toilet was most likely broken up and was never recovered.

    police said they had nothing to go on

    toilet.jpg

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    PCCS Grading

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    This would occur on george V silver wouldn't it, it's an absolute nightmare for grading, I suppose with only a couple of points between them the graders have not really done a bad job really few coin series have as many problems as the one shown

    3 Pence Hoard 1885 - 1919

    in Free for all

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    14 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:

    That reminds me of the reason pewter beer tankards have glass bottoms. It was so drinkers could spot the “king’s shilling” in the bottom of the drink they'd been bought by the press gang - they could then refuse the drink and avoid being press ganged into the navy.

    yes that was the navy only and was used in the 1790's when there was a distinct shortage of silver in circulation trouble was the navy ended up mainly staffed by tramps and drunkards 

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    3 Pence Hoard 1885 - 1919

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    Just as a matter of interest an ord soldiers pay was around a shilling a day which meant a days pay was four of these little coins .

    Few soldiers took their full pay with most signing it over to their mother to save up for them when they came home

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    3 Pence Hoard 1885 - 1919

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    Posted · Edited by copper123

    Many old soldiers were upset by the way medals were given out for the first world war and it was quite common for the ord pvt class soldiers to put them down a grid or throw them in the rubbish as many had seen their comrades killed heads blown off, guts all over the floor etc and many more suffered from PTSD which was often punished by putting them in front of a fireing squad thus leading to more PTSD from other ord soldiers, we behave a little better now thank god.

    Many wanted little to do with the armed forces again and just threw themselves into family life , many never mentioned the war and just clammed up when it was mentioned.

    The officer class was treated a lot better 

    TOY COINS

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    4 minutes ago, kai1998inc said:

    My own example of this coin (pictured on previous page of this thread) has no trace of silvering - in fact, yours is the first I’ve seen with any silvering at all. 

    Yes pity about the weak strike on the reverse

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