Paddy

With all this extra time on our hands, why not post some music to share? I came across a couple of CDs by Ozric Tentacles the other day - very interesting to me - somewhere between prog and trance! This Youtube will play you the music - sadly no video to go with it:

Not sure if this is a laugh or a cry, but the term "20 20 vision" will take on a whole new meaning after this year!

Forgive me if you have heard this one before: A man walks into a cafe, takes a seat at a table and starts reading the menu. After a few minutes the waitress approaches: "What will you have?" she asks. "I'll have a quickie," he replies confidently. She scowls and stomps off. After a few minutes she returns and demands: "Are you ready to order now?" "Yes - I'd like a quickie please," he replies. She thumps the table and storms off angrily. Soon the manager sends her back. "Ok - are you ready to make a sensible order now?" she says angrily. "May I please have a quickie?" he asks plaintively. "Right, I'm calling the police!" she shouts. At this point the man at the next table leans over helpfully and says: "I think you'll find that is pronounced "Quiche"!".

It's another smoking knee! Must be close to a "recognised variety" by now. 😉

The M1 and the A1 are in a bar having a drink when a stretch of red tarmac walks in. "Who is that?" asks the M1. "Oh, watch out for him - he's a real cycle path!" replies the A1.

I'm afraid my BS detector was set off very quickly by the Coin cabinet letter. Seems to me just to be a shameless attempt to turn people's fears into a selling opportunity. Remind's me of the Blair and Cameron spin days!

Here is mine - possibly even sharper on the reverse but with one or two irregularities around the edge:

To me looks genuine enough, just a bit over graded. I would give it VF - too much wear, particularly on the shield, for any more.

I find the squiggles rapidly give me a headache. If I really want to find out what they are I use zeno.ru - they have an enormous database of Asian coins already and have experts regularly there that can ID almost anything Indian or Oriental.

Read it out loud - each digit spoken separately...

1 1 was a racehorse 2 2 was 1 2 1 1 1 1 race 2 2 1 1 2

After all, you could buy nearly a whole penny for that much!

Is this the "smoking knee" variety? 🙂

With such a small picture it is difficult to see what is triggering your alarm bells? And can we see the other side?

I assume it is all the latest incarnation of "like" and "you know", and to me indicates a similar lack of literacy. Our modern education system seems to treat any attempt at good grammar or spelling as snobbishness. Is it only in this country that being badly educated, or at least giving that impression, is deemed something of which to be proud?

I must admit I find the tendency to start almost every sentence with "So..." rather annoying. If you watch Pointless on BBC 1 (as I do) you will see most of the younger contestants doing it all the time - even those with literary qualifications or occupations. For me it goes in the same category as "very unique" and "very real".

... Redacted - I promised I wouldn't get drawn into politics ...

You know me by now - I love bargain job lots! I picked up an album at an auction last week - mostly full of junk pre-decimal British coinage. (I bought mainly because the album was a good quality one, suitable for displaying better coins at market.) As well as reasonable 1953 and 1950 pennies in there (unspotted) was this 1860 in fairly decent condition. If I am reading @secret santa's website correctly this is F10, Obverse 2 reverse D, but actually the reverse is D* (with the heavy rockline above the LCW) and also has the sea not reaching the border to the left of the lighthouse. All in all a pleasing upgrade to my F10 with bonuses. Oh and it also shows the repaired A in Victoria...

Rather pleased with this 1845 Penny bought as an upgrade at an auction last week:

And I thought it was only happening in North Devon. Been in my new house for nearly a month now and barely explored the garden and outbuildings yet.

This one from today's paper made me laugh:

I picked this up on Saturday as part of a box full of foreign coins. Clearly lacking mint toning, but was this how it left the mint or did someone dip it in something subsequently, do you think?

Welcome to the forum! We could do with better (cropped) photos, but by downloading and magnifying I can get a reasonable idea. There are much more experienced experts than me on here, but it does appear right for a Charles I sixpence. I believe S2813 in the Spink book. The V behind the head is part of VI for Six - the denomination. The mintmark of a Crown gives a date of 1635/6.

Actually I believe the sunlight has a more significant effect than the temperature. I read somewhere, and have tried successfully, wiping a cleaned copper coin in mineral oil and leaving it on a sunny window ledge. A fair level of colour and patination appeared within a few weeks.

Aha! It was meant to be a dash not a minus sign! Sorry for the confusion. (Though it feels as if it should be minus - Brrrr!)