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Mr T

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  1. Mr T
    So where exactly is the signature function? I looked around but couldn't anything labelled as such. I did see an empty text box somewhere in the profile editing area but adding to it didn't produce a signature. edit: never mind, it's at http://www.predecimal.com/forum/settings/?area=signature, not in your profile.
  2. Mr T
    Really? That seems like such a waste... Where did you read that?
  3. Mr T
    I'm sure I've read that this has actually been done.
  4. Mr T
    Nice! Did the Franklin Mint cease operations part-way through 1984 or something?
  5. Mr T
    My chemistry knowledge never went that far but yeah, there's probably quite a bit going on - likewise the chemistry of an alloy is probably not straight-forward.
  6. Mr T
    That's true but the reaction between an acid and a base will produce a by-product and that's the risky bit in my opinion.
  7. Mr T
    Thanks Terry. Not a bad theory with the mint identifier - makes you wonder how the Royal Mint actually did test the output of the other mints when they didn't have something as obvious as a mintmark to denote who struck what.
  8. Mr T
    The neutralising the pH sounds pretty risky - unless you know your chemistry very well I think it has the potential to go very wrong. The ice method actually sounds half-decent though.
  9. Mr T
    It contains the raw numbers of each variety found (though obverses 2 and 3 in the book are swapped from the current book). Definitely worth getting a copy.
  10. Mr T
    Is the number of beads on both reverses the same?
  11. Mr T
    Sorry for the lat reply but it looks okay to me - the fishtailing on the AB of ELIZABETH is an indicator of a genuine clip I think.
  12. Mr T
    In those pictures the surface looks like the surface of a lightly cleaned bronze coin - cleaning seems to give bronze a pickled appearance.
  13. Mr T
    I's say they're both gFine, the 1946 cleaned. I don't collect or know much about brass threepences so can't say much more.
  14. Mr T

    Genuine fakes

    Mr T replied to Phil FK's topic in Free for all

    I can't quite make out the second one but is it even worth faking?
  15. Mr T
    Post a link and the content itself here I think.
  16. Mr T
    Seems vaguely reminiscent of The Rare Coin Company in Australia which invested money in coins for you: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-11/rare-coin-collapse-feature/4815042
  17. Mr T
    Yes - especially with my British collection - 20 pennies down, what, another 250 to go?
  18. Mr T
    Looks like their site is down at the moment.
  19. Mr T
    Does anyone besides Great Britain (and I suppose some of the dependencies) use it at the moment?
  20. Mr T
    I'd look further afield - I started collecting Australian coins but there are plenty of other interesting Commonwealth things to collect and I've found it hard to stay focused. I like to collect coins and part of that is acquiring new coins. Gosh I didn't realise it was that many - I guess that includes all the gold mintmarks and varieties?
  21. Mr T
    Interesting attempt at the portrait of the Queen.
  22. Mr T
    So it's a British threepence on a thin flan?
  23. Mr T
    Agreed - I actually had some luck with the Royal Mint a few years ago and found out there was an authorised mintage of 50,000 for 1983 Cook Islands sets but only maybe a tenth of that actually ended up being produced.
  24. Mr T
    I counted and reverses E, F and G all the same number of denticles (144 for the curious).
  25. Mr T
    I've been collecting since 1999 but I think probably half of that time was spent collecting pretty passively.
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