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  1. DrLarry
    A word of caution re: your refund ....I know you said the buyer offered your $200 was that an official offer of a refund or just a casual chat? Be careful that if this goes to resolution for an item not as described you may be expected to return it to get any refund and then all by the resolution team. If you sell it then you will not be able to return it and then you will end up losing the $200 offered casually. I personally think EBay are quite good with these things.
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    Oh well t is good to know that you confirmed it had been on a mount, it is always hard with Gold you have to be careful
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    Oh I see you have done sorry did not read fully your previous thread
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    Madness make sure you look very carefully around the top and edge and see if it has not been removed from a clasp, the last thing you need s it coming back and then losing on the return postage...It is very easy on ebay to initiate a return on the grounds of "not as described" ....
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    yes I know I think a variety I had from him may have been "doctored" oh well you live and learn...or not in my case... I am sure the forum would agree.
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    I see there is a new variety listed recently from Cheshire of a G or something over a C in an 1860 penny ..
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    surely you cannot doubt the Royal Mint Paddy !!!
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    In seeing this one your mind has to be able to seek out assemblages of the same the tone, usually the tonal "discontinuities" are created which help in being able to show the points where the Lamb and the Lion merge. They rely on artistic ambiguity as I have mentioned in the past. So that at any one time there can be a "sharing" of the anatomical elements. As I have said to you structurally this makes it look like Guernica by Picasso when viewed at different angles elements are shared. In art this is something that has been used by artists for centuries to trick the eye. In the same way that you look at those magic eye pictures you must relax your eye to look through the image not at it. In that way the "ghosts" of the heads actually form a £D effect. This is I think just a phenomenon associated with diffraction and the metaphor of the diffraction grid is quite a good one as light is scattered and bent around the diffraction grating in the same way. These images employ some rather sophisticated visual trick relying on optical properties ...but the image is akin to what you would see if you viewed it through through optical calcite or a glass with faceted faces. I am not going to give up on you...or me
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    the only way I can get close to showing you this is to use the photo exposure to pick up areas of the same density of shade . this allows the upright seated lion to be also seen in context to the smaller "lamb" units which come out of the image towards us and are therefore foreshortened. I think some of the numerous problems involved in seeing this relate to my ability to recognise the sequences so whilst at one tome the sequence can show the seated lions stacked one head on the other in the next section I will show you another constant the "lion carrying the lamb in its mouth"
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    OK these are the lines that Madness noted on the image of the shilling he has on his training to grade thread. The thing that is so remarkable is the simple mathematical relationship I have in the next set taken the angle steeper so you can see what happens when the lines merge fully. It is always the same a set of parallel dark and light bands which b=cut across the coins face and when viewed from the side edge the sequences occur again and again ...I know it may be my brain ut how can this be. They are always clearest when you get this grid section of the pattern. You have to imagine a design drawn on a flat circle, then split into a series of arcs and domed up into a spherical projection. If I could just get you to understand that the sequences follow the same pattern of light and dark merges to form a joined line...each patch merges and in one "vertical sequence there can be as many as 50 combinations ...
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    I will post these pictures of your line question on my own wacky thread with the interpretation of how after taking an image of those lines the exact same mathematical relationships exist.
  12. DrLarry
    I know what they are !!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are part of my pattern I can see close up to the A or Gratia the tell tale sequence I see all the time note the way the parallel lines have a slight crenulation it you were to view them from the side angle the lines would merge...ooopss I am not supposed to be talking about this !
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    One of my neighbours asked me to list one of these £2 coins with the lettering upside down, I listed it for him for a week and no one at all was interested. I suppose as they go into the edgeding shoot some do flip over I don't think the machine is able reconcile the problem I suppose when you are churning out millions and no human in sight for 1/2 mile of conveyor belt it is hardly surprising this happens. even when the designs could be beautiful they just look rubbish , flat, miserable, uninspiring full of errors, and people become disinterested. I am sure they will soon do themselves out of a job or perhaps they might release old designs. Oh God! I sound like an old man
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    I tell you though these new £1 are so covered with the most awful flaws , metal running all over the place across the portrait and around the edges they are an embarrassment really perhaps some of the most terrible examples of British coining I have seen. Although I would argue there is a purpose behind these lines .....and marks LOL
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    I would think as a young friend told me last week that if true it would all be rather niche....this way the "madness" viewing the world so differently at least has a broader spectrum of interest...even I find it more interesting but at the same time when one has the ability to observe ones "other world" and see it with such clarity I am sure the real test of sanity will be how I deal with...at the moment is is a little strange. But I also find the intriguing way I see coins to suddenly to have so much more beauty and are less mundane to me and as I have said in this troubling world of division the lion and lambs are quite comforting
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    Without investing a lot I have it in some overseas coinage but I try not to look too much ...but then I am as nutty as a fruit loaf ...with nuts !!! I had this theory that seemed to make sense at the time that a lot of this was mixed up with the rise of the heraldic orders during the 11th to 13th C culminating in colleges of arms. I tried to make sense of many of the forms by seeing the emblems as abstract forms of the sequences I was finding. so for example the lion is obvious, but the lion with the tongue seemed always to be associated with a negative space that resembled another creature "a lamb" ....Part of the way I saw or see things uses the unremarkable spaces in between i.e negative space. If you look t these spaces (a skill that would be common for an engraver who had reverse perception in design) then they do appear to be much more significant. The issue was that if you only look at the obvious design space i.e the lion that is all you ever see. When I looked at emblems like the Fleur de lys I began to see subtle variation in the design same with subtle variations in lambs each of which when viewed from an alternative perspective could quite easily become something very different ...usually some modification on the lion lamb sequences. I just see a different world one in which I seem to be alone, but this is often the case with any type of neurological issue I suppose (no offence intended). What I was seeking was an order in the apparent chaos and by assigning these complex patterns a place in historical context and within the secrets of the guilds I gave them a sense of reality (in my mind)....it will be an interesting book on brain function if nothing else! of course the moment you see eyes the brain can compute all the things around it to suddenly make sense of the world
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    here is my candidate for something really quite terrible https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Very-bad-condition-only-one-side-viewable/113182323855
  18. DrLarry
    The geometry is similar in many of the forms if you use triangle tessellation a lions head can very easily become a dragon, or stag I'm not sure if I have an image
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    yes I agree I am not sure what trials they put the sequence through with the children in the autistic society I remember them saying that it had been prepared with the support groups involvement but as you say these things can give us a snap shot of understanding
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    yes although I have to admit even for me I found this vigo sixpence quite convincing with each angle showing a different sequence
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    yes indeed and I am sure you have pointed it out to your significant other I hope it sings a good song .....perhaps a wren ...careful you dont start seeing wrens on coins !!!
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    I dont think it was an over-reaction I think if you are in the middle of something then you become more keenly aware of the impact it has on the child's life and the parents and family. There is an incredible new resource I heard of recently available from the autistic society it is a 3D download you add to your phone and you have to wear those funny techno glasses that allow the phone to sit in and it gives a 3D visual and sound perspective of how an autistic child experiences a shopping centre. I think the more resources like that around that give us insight the greater our ability to see the world from more than one single position
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    None of us has the exact definition or fully understand the full extent of the problem the point to bother about is that you have at least given an alternative contribution and that in itself is important . One can only learn by trial and error what is right and what is wrong.
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    the spectrum is broad and it's manifestations very variable I know a number of autistic kids with dyspraxia, sauvents, who do not always suffer the same overwhelming sensory overload. It is the definition which the fault here in that some have and some do not have these upsetting characteristics for you and your nephew, I think when searching for mental health descriptions so many are in the dark.
  25. DrLarry
    When I started it was the extand design that kept giving me the pattern sequence, it was only really a desire to understand why so many things all over the place seemed to have eyes ...I suppose eyes are at least common to humans and animals so I dint completely drift off into the land of OZ. When I saw a similar pattern in the new coded windows of the new £1 coin showing the same scatter of a pattern broken by a sequence of "slats" which merge into a form I thought I had it . the patterns seemed the same to me whether looking at the extant design as in this 1831 penny Or when I looked at the sweet little Vigo sixpence it seemed all a matter of just angling the camera in the right direction using negative light and the form would come through ....I proposed the blank planchet idea simply because if the whole of the coin face were etched when the die struck the coin the design elements of my pattern would flow around and over the design elements and hence when something similar in the "extant design" picked out the form then the image would be re enforced . It made obvious sense that if you viewed a series of broken pattern at such an angle to allow the "fragments" to merge (the etched design) they were easily observable. Only rarely did a form like the lion Peckris saw and the obvious one in the Vigo sixpence
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