Peckris 2

Have you actually done that? I haven't got an 'Unread' notification.

It does look polished. However, I'm not convinced about the fibre - could be scratches?

As the bishop said to the actress...

Have you tried looking in web mail to see if there are more messages there than you're seeing in Outlook? That doesn't help resolve your Outlook problem but at least you can keep a weather eye on your email until the spam folder is restored one way or another.

Except that by his calculations the human population would now be in the trillions.

KV-9 ?

That second example doesn't look like a normal lustred coin. It looks more like a darkened farthing that's been treated? It certainly doesn't look natural.

Semra is Stephen's wife?? 😮

You lived right by Windsor Castle?

Fine stuff - if almost the very definition of a Vertigo band!

"Double struck" as opposed to double punched? Yes, I'd concur - the linear circle shows the same phenomenon.

The priority slots are also filling up so I grabbed one for 11th May to be safe.

I'd love to create a font that's all the same height - it would come out like this: aBcDeFGHiJKLmnoPQrsTuvwxYz (I had to mess around with "Size" to get that to work - in my theoretical version, the upper case letters would be the same height as the lower case).

Roll on end of lockdown...

If I don't get a slot there is a Facebook group of local volunteers who can do shopping for me, plus I have a weekly carer/enabler who can get stuff for me when she does a Tesco shop for her own family. I'm not stuck for means of getting food just yet..

Agreed. Dorset Coins were a very welcome table at the Midland in the 90s, and Ernie was always friendly and obliging.

I'm on the Tesco priority slot list - they just asked me a few questions, unlike Waitrose who insist you have to be on the government's (narrowly defined) database.

Not even VAT Out Of Hell?

That too is interesting. Unlike the OH pennies, there is a great uniformity between 1883 and 1894 which sounds counter intuitive but it's nevertheless true. So a variation like that one is definitely worthy of note.

Now that is one that WOULD grab my attention! Good one.

I've returned to Tesco. Getting a home delivery slot from Waitrose is IMPOSSIBLE, and M&S don't do online foodhall shopping. 😢

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To be honest, there are too many to be interesting IMO. It's always the final digit in the date and nothing else, nothing. It would be like collecting every single variant of 1861 and 1862 pennies where the position, angle, space, slant, of the final digit varies with just about die used. Once you started you'd never stop. No disrespect intended to Michael Gouby but recording all these micro differences as distinct varieties doesn't seem to be a worthwhile exercise. That's my two pennorth anyway.

He was celebrated in the first (or second?) Age Of The Image series, which should still be on BBC iPlayer. A real talent who never published outside his immediate circle, and wasn't discovered until much later.