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Why don't you count them and get back to us :)

Is there no record of this lol? Surely this is the place where someone would know the answer

Really lol?

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Why don't you count them and get back to us :)

Is there no record of this lol? Surely this is the place where someone would know the answer

Really lol?

Time is ticking on when someone calls there child lol, lol.

bck on topic

I think it sometimes varies, an exact date needed?

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Why don't you count them and get back to us :)

Is there no record of this lol? Surely this is the place where someone would know the answer

Oh I'm sorry - I thought this was a coins forum. You mean it's really the Aspergers Social Club???

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Is there no record of this lol? Surely this is the place where someone would know the answer

there are 12 sides to a dodecagonal but only if you will get your girl to show me her thruppeny bits :rolleyes:

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Sorry you have totally lost me there Ski? :blink:

Just a thought though, if there were an "official" number of ridges on older coins, could this not be an indicator of authenticity?

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Just a thought though, if there were an "official" number of ridges on older coins, could this not be an indicator of authenticity?

It sometimes is used as am indicator or authenticity, handy if you have a known genuine item and a suspect coin of the same type.... and a lot of patience!

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Just a thought though, if there were an "official" number of ridges on older coins, could this not be an indicator of authenticity?

It sometimes is used as am indicator or authenticity, handy if you have a known genuine item and a suspect coin of the same type.... and a lot of patience!

Easy to tell, just mesh them together and rotate, you will soon spot the difference, mind you you would need a concensus as to which is the genuine artical.

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No one is going to produce snide 10p's

that should see them start to turn up real soon :D

ahem.....debbie a thrupenny bit is 12 sided, therefore a dodecagonal

12 sides are easier to count than ridges. :D

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Is there no record of this lol? Surely this is the place where someone would know the answer

we will all know once youve counted em, still keeping us in suspense though ;)

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Sorry you have totally lost me there Ski? :blink:

Just a thought though, if there were an "official" number of ridges on older coins, could this not be an indicator of authenticity?

Cockney rhyming slang for lady top parts :)

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Well I can well imagine what the "bits" refer to...but the thruppeny....? :D

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thruppeny= threepenny.........

threepenny = 12 sided coin......

i dont know anything about upper lady parts as im totally innocent of such things :rolleyes:

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The first word in a cockney rhyming slag pair is only there to lend a connection with the 2nd noun, which will invariably rhyme with the thing being referenced.

Apples and Pears

Rub a dub

Skin and blister

Frog and Toad

Pete Tong

Gypsy kiss

Butchers hook

Are some of the most well known.

These are often shortened and just the first word is substituted for whatever you want to say.

Am I the only Saaf East Londoner here? I often wondered why there are not more London area members. I know Derek is.

Or is coin collecting more a provincial thing, like ferreting and pigeon keeping? ;)

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Apples and Pears

Rub a dub

Skin and blister

Frog and Toad

Pete Tong

Gypsy kiss

Butchers hook

Are some of the most well known.

???!!!!!! :ph34r: I know the first one is stairs...... :P
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The first word in a cockney rhyming slag pair is only there to lend a connection with the 2nd noun, which will invariably rhyme with the thing being referenced.

Apples and Pears

Rub a dub

Skin and blister

Frog and Toad

Pete Tong

Gypsy kiss

Butchers hook

Are some of the most well known.

These are often shortened and just the first word is substituted for whatever you want to say.

Am I the only Saaf East Londoner here? I often wondered why there are not more London area members. I know Derek is.

Or is coin collecting more a provincial thing, like ferreting and pigeon keeping? ;)

I'm an ex-Putneyite, now sadly exiled to the provinces down in Tunbridge Wells by unaffordable housing stock. Perhaps therein lies the reason - Londoners can't afford both somewhere to live and a coin collection?

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Apples and Pears

Rub a dub

Skin and blister

Frog and Toad

Pete Tong

Gypsy kiss

Butchers hook

Are some of the most well known.

???!!!!!! :ph34r: I know the first one is stairs...... :P

pub; road; wrong; look...dodn't know skin and blister or gypsy kiss.

I do like to refer to a suit as a whistle for whistle and flute

and a wig as a syrup for syrup and fig those are my favourites.

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Gypsy kiss = piss? Skin and blister = sister?

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All of them are right. Pete Tong being a relatively modern one.

You're probably right Broomstick. Even though SE London is cheaper than SW generally, I couldn't afford anything larger than a broom cupboad so had to get something in Kent too. Not as nice as Tunbridge Wells though, as you can gather from the recent tenant and shooter incident described elsewhere.

I have never counted the millings on a 10p.

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spent a lot of my younger days living on clapham common north side.....big old victorian houses just up from the shell garage........exiled now in ashford near thiefrow.

clapham is now pronounced clathem by the yuppies who live there.........just down the road is the equally poncy named

St reathem. :D

Souff east london aint exactly cockney me old cocker now is it...... :)

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