TomGoodheart

It's a 'wound star' - I guess the equivalent of the Purple Heart. He got shrapnel in his eye at Monte Cassino and had to be operated on in the field. (Later went to an optician in London who turned out to have been his surgeon).

And.. thanks! That worked!

Can you identify these @Chris Perkins?

I did this through uploading to Gallery Images. But that presumably that uses Forum memory and is a bit clunky ..

OK, let's try a different browser .. Drag and .. Nope. Doesn't work for me on Chrome or Opera @Chris Perkins :(

Oh well, if we're doing medals .. let's see if this works. No. Doesn't work for me @Chris Perkins Says I can't paste images directly. I have to upload or insert from a url ..

I got one of those too! 😄

😂

This is a test ..

I thought I'd just mention I bought from Stacks Bowers in the US a couple of weeks ago. Paid by credit card for a 2.5% supplement. Got an email on Thursday saying it was being shipped and would be delivered yesterday. Some hope I thought, but .. slight delay because I missed the request to pay the vat (correct amount and reasonable fee from FedEx of £4 - rather cheaper than Royal Mail!) but it arrived this morning. So things can go right (I wasn't sure how it would go as you occasionally hear of problems with US posted items) and in this case I actually received the coin faster than from some UK auction houses!

I've emailed Chris too, quoting part of this message Paddy. Let's see if it gets to him, though I believe it's the site host that's looking into the problems ...

But I get a 403 error when I try to post a picture ...

Just checking if I can actually post anything. .. ok, that worked.

That seller always has really high contrast photographs, which I feel don't do his offerings any justice. I suspect it's a decent enough coin in the hand. But top pops are always a bit dodgy unless the coin is really common, since there are bound to be better examples of 99% of coins on ebay out there somewhere, and only a fraction get graded so it's all a bit meaningless to most British collectors IMHO. And of course, it's always 'buy the coin, not the slab' with these ..