ozjohn

Poincianas are tricky things to grow. My advice is to keep them dry in the winter., You could also try soaking the seed in hot water for 24 hours prior to sowing as this aids germination. They also like plenty of sun. I can send you some seeds if it is legal to import this material as they are everywhere on the ground around here. I don't think it will grow to the same size in the UK. However it would make a very nice pot plant. When I was in the UK some time ago I visited the Horniman Museum at Forest Hill where they were selling Poinciana seed pods at GBP 1.00 each I am not sure they Were aware what they were selling

Christmas in Queensland. delonix regia in bloom otherwise known as Poinciana which is a native of Madagascar .

Just a quick look on ebay.co for 1902 UNC half crowns shows a price of GBP 200 + - with GBP 200 fo the rest of the coins GBP 400 fot the lot does not seem unreasonable. Retail coin dealer's prices are usually higher than those realized at auction.

Note they are all encapsulated and graded. I checked with the Value of British coins site which gave a price of close to GBP 400.. If you can assemble these coins with similar grades for sale at that price I look forward to seeing your listing.

https://www.colonialcollectables.com/halfcrowns/6772-edward-silver-coins-1902.html A set of high grade 1902 Edward coins for sale at a what I think is a reasonable price which maybe of interest to a new collector starting an Edward VII collection.. I have no financial or other interest in Colonial Collectables but being a NZ operation they may not known in the UK.

hot oferts ?

http://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?page=Pastresults&auc=157&searchlot=2670&searchtype=2 A London coins offering of a 3B reverse 1921 halfcrown with a photo of my own example.. I'm not going to count the denticles, but on my coin however examination of the second 1of the date in the coin below the reveals a curl on the tail of the 1 rather than a straighter 1 which is the case with the London Coins example

Sign of the times?

The same thought occurred to me when I recently saw a similar sales pitch for a halfcrown. No doubt the same seller

Thanks everyone for the info on my pennies.

A higher resolution scan of the reverse.

A higher resolution scan which may help. Just looking at the scan it looks like the king's mo is fully struck.

Thanks for the interest and comments. It's obvious there are a lot of enthusiastic penny collectors out there. I'll try to provide a higher resolution scan of the 1913 obverse within the 500k file size limit

My 1913 and 1915 pennies. Not sure what type as I do not collect down to that level. However the 1913 is a better strike than the 1915.

That's a pretty accurate set of scales you've got. +/_ 10 mg. Where do you get one?

Yes HF propagation can amaze us. A few watts of ERP can be heard clearly over 1000s of Km. Not so easy at VHF as the radio waves penetrate the ionized layers surrounding the earth. Meter showers and solar storms can enhance the ionized layers to allow propagation over long distanced. When I was working for the Dept. of Aviation we had a troposcatter link between Point lookout in Northern NSW to Mt. Glorious to the West of Brisbane about 3 to 400 km. In this case a high power microwave transmitter was aimed at the troposphere to graze it. Sufficient power was received at the far end to complete the link. This link worked reliably for many years carrying radar and communications over the distance. From memory it operated at about 2 GHz using a Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) as the transmitter tube. As it happens I live in Brisbane at a place called Redcliffe which is on the shore of Morton Bay.

I've given up on ebay removing fakes from their listings. They are not interested. With the G III 1818 halfcrown was it coin or medal alignment? With regard to London Coins not detecting this coin as a fake raises the question of their ability to authenticate coins. I have always wondered about their expertise in this area.

I think at the time BBC1 TV was on about 50MHz which is just above the shortwave band where long distance propagation is far more possible. However the UK to Oz is pretty impressive.

Perhaps a little off subject. I was in South Australia 900 km from Gosford NSW where I was living at the time. My wife was fiddling with the car radio which had 2GO (Gosford) on 107.9 MHz. Anyhow this station came in loud and clear. Obviously the signal was reflected off the ionized layers surrounding the earth. As a retired electrical engineer specializing in antennas and propagation I was impressed to experience something normally described in text books.

One story is the Chinese saw St. George slaying the dragon as an insult to China.

Hairlines? Cleaning with a "wire brush " seems more appropriate.

I saw a coin on Ebay graded by IGC and having no experience of them wondered if they were any good.

Has anyone heard of IGC? https://www.icgcoin.com/

Possible but I have not heard of an proven case.

Not sure if you would be too keen on this one as they can reach dinner plate dimensions. My wife was taking a shower and felt something and brushed it off not realizing the size of the spider. The next thing I heard was Johnnn! The best way to deal with them is a rolled up news paper or a pint beer glass and a piece of stiff cardboard if you are charitable. not that they are dangerous. However a few years ago I had an encounter wit a funnel web spider which is deadly. I was down stairs where I lived and about to put my thongs on (flip flops) and this spider reared up at me. It was dispatched but it was a deadly funnel web. We have plenty of venoms animals here.