Rob

I'm still in firefox. Normally, I book a parcel online with parcel2go, interparcel or whoever is cheapest. After I have booked it, a page comes up allowing me to print off the shipping labels - except it doesn't now. Pressing that button just sends the file into the downloads whereas it used to open so that I could view it. Clicking on the download now goes to a grey page asking me to activate adobe (which I have done at least a dozen times tonight), but still doesn't seem to recognise I have done so. Clicking on allow now enables the page, but I still can't print - see above post. pdf files used to have a printer icon, but that has gone.

False alarm - still not working. I tried printing from the top bar (file drop down menu and print), but nothing happens. Chrome isn't an option as I want to send parcels out tomorrow and none of the kids will be around to install new software for a couple of weeks. A banging your head emoticon wouldn't help, but would make me feel better. For some reason, this wouldn't accept the printout I get using the three horizontal line button and the print icon which is as follows: Still won't. It is the file address of the download which won't enter as text for whatever reason, together with the date and time at the bottom. Only the useful bits are missing.

Thank you. I think we are working, just that clicking random buttons in the hope of solving a problem is like navigating in pea soup. I did avoid having the macafee downloaded which I recognise as a pain from the past.

Thanks Clive. That is in the right area, even if it hasn't solved it. Now I get a thing saying activate Adobe Acrobat (which I don't have). I'll have to find the setting which allows me to use the free version rather than waste a few hundred pounds on something I won't use.

A happy start to the new year for me. We went for a walk along the Rochdale canal today, but the weather turned a bit wet. Thankfully my clothes hadn't dried out until every pump on the bar had been tested. Full marks to the Masons just outside Todmorden.

happy new year to all from me.

Couldn't agree more, regardless of denomination or year ... But it's what they go for! Is it any different to a two-pronged trident?I do confess it's not for me, unless I was close to gathering the whole series of something, and a particular coin got added into an addenda or revised edition of a book, or similar, as a definite type? But this wouldn't happen to me, as I have an interest in too many areas...fortunately! No, two-pronged tridents are just as silly. Unless it was engraved using a specifically intended two pronged trident, then it was just a defective tool. Although discussed before, this opens up a whole can of worms because you then have to consider the various development stages of the variety raising the salient point of when can a variety be said to exist? How do you price the intermediate stages and why are they so defined? Die fill and breakage are two continually evolving states which are virtually impossible to quantify until complete, or the die has fallen apart setting the maximum limit. I suspect the main driver for including a variety in a price list is the owner and definer of said variety.

This is where I've lost the plot. I would feel embarrassed asking for a higher price for a natural die degradation feature. Maybe a spectacular flaw would warrant a bit extra, but die fill? Or more accurately in this case, the removal of a bit of die within the 2. Crazy.

Does this filled 2 warrant a premium?

"Sound" advice from Mark, Jordan Having offered a full set of sealed as issued in the folder with completer medallion which wasn't taken up, I would think that collecting from circulation is the next best thing as each would only cost you 50p. As Mark said, eBay is full of BU (not) items and if not in sealed original packaging a picture can tell a thousand words, but hide a hell of a lot more. Collecting from circulation will avoid this potential pitfall.

I reported it as a copy 6 days ago. Needless to say, nothing was done.

I don't think it is being shilled because it is way above what he would list it for in his trays.

Be careful what you do. When I got my last phone, I managed to run up an excess use bill of £30 over and above my 1Gb allowance despite not having used it. I got the kids to disable it, so no nasty surprises any more. The internet is useful, but not £30 a month plus whatever time you actually use useful. I might revert to a steam powered version when I get a new one.

The pre-union R&P issue crowns used a filled VIGO obverse die in some instances, though whether that die was also used for the rarer plumes issue is currently uncertain.

Presumably Santa has difficulty getting down the chimney on a barge? And certainly struggled to find a place to hide things.

It is now time to say Merry Christmas to all.

A few exceptions, but generally a really off die axis raises concerns about authenticity. The transposed French and Irish shields W3 1697 shilling has a 90 degree die axis, with only the French arms in the right place for a normal inverted die axis coin.

I've got an 1867 shilling with Davies dies 5B available if anyone is looking for one. Only poor, but confirmed by I of VICT to space and dot between ribbons above die number (16) on the reverse. £40 all in it anyone wants it. Books at £200 in Fine. For some reason CCGB say it has yet to be confirmed, but it has been known for a long time, so not sure why???

If the Stamford hoard applies, that would most likely refer to Ryhall which is just outside Stamford - BNJ 1988 p96-102

Liberia 1c 1862. The image file title says so. Or more specifically 1862 with the 6 over 4, the reverse die being a leftover from the 1847 issue.

Hats off to you for doing that! You must have the patience of Job. I struggle looking at more than a couple dozen pages. I'm not sure I would survive the ordeal of a couple hundred.

What a useful article. Thank you.

http://www.irishcoinage.com/L0001.HTM Although the grade is not the best, this page is a bit more helfpul

I concur. The hair detail has the typical coarse cutting you often associate with copies. The harp detail also doesn't match. However, the Spink illustration is for 1766.