Emperor Oli Posted February 11, 2004 Posted February 11, 2004 I'll be 34 on the 15th March.My birthday is also on 15th March. what a coincidence Quote
Chris Perkins Posted February 11, 2004 Posted February 11, 2004 Pehaps people born on that date are more likely to be interested in coins. By the way Olli, got the cheque etc. Quote
Fenman Posted February 11, 2004 Posted February 11, 2004 I'll be 34 on the 15th March.My birthday is also on 15th March. what a coincidenceIt certainly is !Beware the Ides of Mars...http://famromo.wiccan.net/iuno/03ides.htm Quote
Emperor Oli Posted February 12, 2004 Posted February 12, 2004 Pah! I have nothing to fear - I am invincible! Quote
william Posted February 19, 2004 Posted February 19, 2004 How many OAP's have we got in here or young nips?i am 11. Quote
Chris Perkins Posted February 19, 2004 Posted February 19, 2004 That makes you certainly the youngest, and I'm afraid Geoff, you may well be the oldest! Not that 48 is any age, of course. Quote
Emperor Oli Posted February 19, 2004 Posted February 19, 2004 Damn you william, I was the youngest! Quote
william Posted February 20, 2004 Posted February 20, 2004 Damn you william, I was the youngest!Sorry Oli, but i only joined yesterday, that's why you only just found out! Second youngest can't be bad though, can it? Quote
Emperor Oli Posted February 20, 2004 Posted February 20, 2004 Sorry Oli, but i only joined yesterday, that's why you only just found out! Second youngest can't be bad though, can it?Hehehe i was only kidding Quote
TomGoodheart Posted March 22, 2004 Posted March 22, 2004 Pretty good spread then - I'm 47. Don't remember LSD - I was only a kid in the 60's (joke).47's pretty good - when I want to bore people I can tell them how "when I were a lad a paperback book cost just 5p"! (Now you could get a whole library for what some people charge for a shilling!)And here's one for you 'old' folks - do your kids (and other halves) think of coin collecting as boring? (Bring out the sad violins..) When I want to enthuse about a new purchase all I get is ' yeah, yeah, nice portrait' (or worse - 'HOW much!') - anyone got sympathetic relatives out there? Quote
Sylvester Posted March 22, 2004 Posted March 22, 2004 ...When I want to enthuse about a new purchase all I get is ' yeah, yeah, nice portrait' (or worse - 'HOW much!') - anyone got sympathetic relatives out there? This sounds familiar, i remember lying when my parents asked how much that 1688 half guinea was, i said (unbelievibly!) £70, they went "how much! are you mad? stop wasting you're money" ...it's a good job i didn't tell them it really cost me £225 hey? Quote
Chris Perkins Posted March 23, 2004 Posted March 23, 2004 I think perhaps there is still a general stigma attached to coin collecting/dealing. People think it's boring and well, perhaps even a bit nerdy. I'm lucky enough to have a girlfriend that really seems to like helping me sort through coins and she even puts them on eBay using her id in German for me.People that are not interested in coins are always very nice and creepy to us when they find a coin they want to know about! Quote
william Posted March 23, 2004 Posted March 23, 2004 People that are not interested in coins are always very nice and creepy to us when they find a coin they want to know about!Yeah, my friend at school had a Gibraltar £1 coin, which he was using to buy his lunch, and asked me if i could identify it. So i told him what it was, and that it's illegal in this country, but he still managed to pass it off as an English one!! Quote
Geoff T Posted March 23, 2004 Posted March 23, 2004 Pretty good spread then - I'm 47. Don't remember LSD - I was only a kid in the 60's (joke).And here's one for you 'old' folks - do your kids (and other halves) think of coin collecting as boring? (Bring out the sad violins..) When I want to enthuse about a new purchase all I get is ' yeah, yeah, nice portrait' (or worse - 'HOW much!') - anyone got sympathetic relatives out there? Damn - I'm still the oldest!My kids are quite mercenary about the whole idea of coin collecting. My daughter was 21 last month so I gave her, inter alia, a silver proof 1983 £1 because £1 coins appeared the year she was born. Her initial reaction was to ask "How much is it worth and when should I sell it?"My son (18 this summer) admits to wanting to liberate "the geek within" which he feels he's repressed since those childhood days of collecting and ordering (like recording The Planets in the "right" order because Holst got it wrong). I've warned him that this could lead to a serious fetish for little round metal things...Geoff Quote
TomGoodheart Posted March 26, 2004 Posted March 26, 2004 Sorry Geoff!I not only got passed a couple of Gibraltar Will, but a Swaziland One Lilangeni! Exactly the same as a £1 coin (NiBronze) but with a lady with three pompoms around her neck on one side and a chap with what look like the arms of a cross coming out of his head on t'other!Worse still - I kept it to add to my collection! Quote
TomGoodheart Posted March 26, 2004 Posted March 26, 2004 Damn! I forgot this area is not supposed to be about coins! Sorry.My daughter thinks coins are boring. Whenever I talk about them she says "Mummy! Daddy used the 'C' word again." Sometimes I get funny looks, I wonder why?(I'm not sure if the looks would get worse or not if I mentioned how much I paid Keith Bayford for my GEF Northumberland and 1663 shillings (his gradings)) Oh yeah - nerdadvice please! How do I get an avatar (please?) Quote
Chris Perkins Posted March 26, 2004 Posted March 26, 2004 Avatar instructions by Bob:http://www.predecimal.com/forum/index.php?...ct=ST&f=30&t=41 Quote
TomGoodheart Posted March 26, 2004 Posted March 26, 2004 Thanks Chris!I'll get the hang of this eventually! Quote
Emperor Oli Posted March 27, 2004 Posted March 27, 2004 I could never get the hang of the moving ones but check out my jazzy new one! The edging's a bit orf but what can you expect!? Quote
Sylvester Posted March 27, 2004 Posted March 27, 2004 I could never get the hang of the moving ones but check out my jazzy new one! The edging's a bit orf but what can you expect!? Yes the red-X does suit you... Quote
TomGoodheart Posted March 27, 2004 Posted March 27, 2004 Hi Will! It's a pic of Moby - he's that dance etc DJ. I look a bit like him (cept I have marginally more hair...) Tom(I'm not sure about the switching colours myself - anyone else find it a tad irritating? If so I'll change it!) Quote
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