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Lovely coin - good buy.

Brilliant - thanks

Can someone provide me with a link to this article please. I have just uploaded photos of almost all the J Moore patterns to my varieties website.

Thanks to Bernie, I picked up an average 1895 wide date recently on Ebay. Not wonderful but a reasonably interesting example of 1895Bb which Gouby describes as scarce.

Thanks, although I have neglected it through the summer. If anyone has additions/corrections etc I shall have plenty of time in the winter to update it.

Absolutely right Mike - that's why I posted it !!!

One thing's for sure - you can't make a decision on whether a coin is bronzed from a photograph. See the photos below of the same coin: LCA (top pic) and NGC (lower pic) both describe the coin as bronzed copper. My own photo shows a very patchy colour, unlike the consistent finish that Rob describes. So, is this bronzed or not ?

Please let me know if it's as good as it sounds and I'll get a copy to update my halfpenny site.

I've never knowingly downloaded restoro and a search with File Explorer doesn't find it so it's still mysterious. Malwarebytes says it blocked it rather than deleted it. I'll read your link later, Mike - thanks for that.

Even weirder - I have downloaded Malwarebytes and run a scan and although it didn't find anything, it seems to have cured the problem in all browsers - but time will tell. Actually, I've found that it blocked a website called restoro.com which "appears to be malicious" - maybe that's the cause ?

This is weird - 24 hours on and Firefox has now slowed to a standstill like the other browsers. It must be a virus.

I have now installed the Firefox browser which is so far working perfectly which suggests to me that a virus has somehow infected both Chrome and Edge although as I said before, McAfee scans don't find any issues. Strange !!!

IIRC ?

Onedrive is using nearly 30% CPU; nothing else reaches double figures & most are zero.

What should I be looking for - something that takes all the CPU or something that takes all the memory ?

McAfee scan shows no issues.

Today, from nowhere, my browsers have virtually slowed to a halt. When typing from the keyboard, each character takes at least a second to appear on the screen. There is not a problem typing into a Word document. Similarly, it takes several seconds to open a new tab in either Chrome or Edge. The scroll wheel on the mouse is similarly delayed in action which makes the sizing of images on a web page impossible. A broadband check shows that speed is unaffected. The PC has become unusable. Any advice out there ?

It's really quite simple - my generation was raised on feet and inches and pounds and ounces. We think in those units and can estimate in those units. Don't ask me to describe a person's height and weight in metres and kilograms. I can't do it - full stop. I have to do a mental conversion whenever metric is used. Use the 2 systems in parallel until my generation is dead.

I have these articles and could send scans if required.

The deadliest footballer in the box of my generation.

Ian, are you happy that I add these pics to my varieties website, crediting you ?

As you know, Ian, I started to work on this and soon gave up !

Much like many Ebay sellers.................

No, I've only got the photos of it !

Yes, I can get on now.