blakeyboy

"strangely rewarding" - nicely put. Welcome to the forum! As for Ebay purchases- I've enjoyed buying mixed piles of coins, but searching using 'nearest first', and asking a seller of something interesting whether you can go round and have a look through the pile. I've done good deals there and then in the past.

We have many names for you too, matey. It's been so exciting having someone like you turn up and give us your opinions.

Not at all......I know that it's only useful to take things to a certain resolution once the point is made. I learnt long long ago that if one wishes to get more from a book, re-reading it one letter at a time is a backwards step.....

I suspect you are over-thinking it. It's just another fun analogy to keep things lighter. (If I wanted to be really accurate, I would have stated that on current estimations he only owns about 88% of the ball.) His ownership of good pennies ( that many of us could have bought) isn't a problem- he's come to the right place. His deciding his cash can change certain established rules is questionable. His descriptions of forum members are objectionable. Are you supporting him in all of these areas?

What? Of a moron? Eh? No, I'm sure the world is full of morons if you look hard enough...:-)

Keep digging mate- I do admire your tenacity and inability to apologise or back down after social ineptitude. I was wrong to use the toy aeroplane analogy. I admit that now. I should have run with the one about kid who turns up out of the blue with demands of a football team because he's the only kid in the street with a decent ball. How's that?

...my mate told me that I needed a boy to help me in the workshop, but so far I can't see any advantages....

All so amusing, and reminding me of a lost time when you could have, when we were all much younger, for example's sake, a model aircraft club. All the members swapped info, ideas, and build techniques on how to get the most out of any model they own, or have built, or are hoping to build. In the village there was The Model Shop. For many years, in the window, was the most magnificent model plane. An unattainable plane. The shopkeeper had to clean the window often, because our noses were pressed to the glass so regularly. Then one day it vanished.... Later that week, a kid turned up at the club, and announced he had all the models that Airfix made, and now also owned the Plane from the Window. We were all very interested and excited and couldn't wait to see what this new kid was offering. All we got was a promise of some pictures, but no plane to admire in the clubhouse, no chance to see it fly, no, we were told it wouldn't be seen again. Those in the Club who liked the new member were described as 'intelligent and rational', and those who though him a bit of a pushy upstart who really should know his place as 'bitter, irrational and ignorant'.... Hmm.....I've been here years, and I still feel an outsider, and from day one I've been respectful to members who know way more than I ever will about coins. Piling in in the way we have seen this week, and saying what has been said is like the dealings of a petulant child. It crosses a line with me. Just because Trump does it doesn't mean anyone else should.

Well, as to the elephant in the room, I think 48 hours is long enough to have seen an apology for this undeserved slur.

Absolutely. So this rather means that someone who realises this through experience wouldn't ascribe a rarity number at all......!!

The 'braggadocio bit' isn't, for me, the problem. (Would anyone claim not to have a swagger when owning such a fine collection?) I don't think the ability to spend cash and tell everyone about it gives anyone, except Michael Freeman, and Michael Gouby, the right to assign Freeman numbers or rarity symbols. Only immense academic effort is rewarded by the assignment of such rights and privileges,not spending cash....

Hmmm...you state the the 1954 penny will hopefully not be sold or seen again....have a good long think about that statement and how it sounds....

I wonder if this is the drill body I ordered off Ebay?

I just noticed this - hmm....is it the same "disturbance in the field" that told Darth that Obi-wan was dead?