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It's coin collecting Jim, but not as we know it.....

I wonder if it’s a contemporary forgery? It looks to be masquerading as a London coin if the LON in the outer quadrant of the reverse is taken into account?

ahh, I did just have a look at that , i have a tiny url

That's how I got started with coins. A friends father was a gas man and he found a Victorian copper Farthing in good very fine condition in a meter whilst emptying it. Can't remember the date though but a nice present in 1973 to a four year old.

It wasn't hard because we had grown up with the old monetary system and had been taught to count in it at school. I think the old halfpennies were already gone by the time I worked at Woolies. However, I do remember when the child subway fare to go to school was 1.5d. I used to get 3d for the subway but preferred to walk and spend it on sweets.

I am delighted that Peter Rabbit's latest "friends" would happily make a meal of him!

Damn- missed that one- too early in the morning!!!!

or Numistacking

I really don't get this crap. Sometimes I can see the demeaning small short-term profit as the hordes panic when the issue runs out. Long term? No. As soon as stuff is flogged as 'limited edition' ( only 46 million), a 'future investment' ( you only lose a quarter of what an item bought from TKMax loses in value in the same period) and it's all 'Nice 'n' shiny', I run a mile, while a pile of idiots with a mental age of 15 and no life experience runs the other way. I should put wire mesh in front of my TV just in case that pompous knobhead from the 'London Mint Office' comes on again.... None of this is coin 'collecting' !!!!! It's 'accumulating'. It's also, at times, preying on the gullible... At today's birthrate, there's one born every 1.8 seconds. My collection of old audio gear went up in value by more than I earned, last year. I bought none of it, over the last 40 years, at the going rate either. OR, I could have spent the equivalent time and money buying a new VHS recorder from Currys each week and stashing it away as an 'investment'........

Or if M&B Mild, 1/10 ! By the way, I still remember 5p meters in 1980-82, i.e. the immersion heater in our bedsits bathroom.

I have a couple of examples of these but in copper not stainless steel. My understanding is they was minted to test the integrity of the die material.

I wonder if anyone has heard of tinyurl?

That is truly scary.

I think "most" is a loose interpretation of the facts! A few, certainly. Van Dijk is the main man though - and someone would have got him (City? Barcelona?) if we hadn't got there first.