blakeyboy

Hmm...I can increase the value of my collection by 30% by sitting on it? For how long? Just while I'm watching the telly? Uncomfortable but profitable then....

Funny how the reverse has virtually no edge- I have a feeling that some of my 1909's are like that- what's the explanation? Sorry if it's been discussed at length before, but I can't remember..... Is it time for my walk now?

There are corners of Ebay where it is ALWAYS the first of April.....

Yes, but does it have invisible friends?

That's what she told me, too!

I used to get weakness at 12and 6 o''clock- turned out to be too much coffee....

I did have a "whoop" with the first, damaging cough two years ago- very alarming initially!

My wife is in the top 5 'advisors' and 'most helpful authors' on the ebay seller central forums, and she thinks us selling off crap on Ebay is over. The search function is rigged now as well. I search ebay by typing the description into Google and adding 'ebay', then I look in images, and I find things that don't exist if you type the EXACT description into ebay itself....! We are going to do our own website, the theory being that yes, we stand no chance of our items being found, but if we start off with listing strange items that no-one else has, then anyone looking for such things will find us at the top of the list. From there it's word of mouth until Google notices the traffic and get involved....

Agreed, but if you hadn't mentioned die clashing. If a blank isn't between the dies when they come together, they clash, and leave impressions of each other on each other. The results usually, as would be expected, show as sharp lines etc- have a look at early bronze pennies of Victoria. Ghosting, by contrast, isn't the result of damage to the dies, and is nebulous and vague, as you would expect. Have a look at early George V pennies.

Thank you.....went to the docs today to organise a scan- that damn cough has, I think, given me a hernia, like the one a cough gave me two years ago. Damn and blast.

Honest posts like that are always required! I haven't bought anything interesting for ages- just been too busy trying to sell so much crap that's built up over the years, and get a website up to help with this. However, I read all that's posted. The one good thing I get from this site is getting an insight into other people's passions, and trying to understand what they see in coins I know nothing about....

Now this is weird- I have no idea how an old picture appeared in this post....I know that sometimes the site remembers old posts and they appear in the box, so you just clear the memory and start typing but this is a surprise!

Oh I’ve had enough of this. This damn cold has morphed into the Cough from Hell. It peaks in the early hours and annoys the neighbours: Nessum Dorma without the singing. Oh it’s painful. I have gained some relief from a whole bottle of whisky in the past two days, and I’m totally dosed up with any chemical sprays and lozenges I could find in our kitchen drawer, which is currently sponsored by Beyer, as far as I can tell. I’m going into the greenhouse to breathe on some aphids. On the upside, I’ve now qualified to represent Great Britain at the World Coughing Championships in Rome later this month!!!! Not since my sister was runner-up at the Miss European Fire Exit finals in Helsinki in 1982 has our family been so honoured....