Rob

Restarting etc still gives AVG Yahoo as the search address used. Why can't AVG accept you don't use a virus checker as a search program and stay away from people's computers? The right tool for the job applies here.

Problem possibly solved. The wife managed to get one bar at the top by putting the arrow at the top of the screen with which she could somehow reduce the box size and then the bottom bar came into view. It also said it was running both Firefox and AVG search programs in the boxes. I messed about with the toolbar settings and by ticking menu bar it reinstated the file, edit, view etc line. The navigation bar gave me a back button and address field plus a box on the right with AVG. I changed this to Google and now it appears to be ok, but I don't know if I have done the right things or not as I didn't use the control panel as suggested (which didn't seem to accept google as the default search program). Removing AVG didn't stop it being used as the preferred alternative to Google. I'll have to keep tabs on it. Thanks everyone.

Do you mean this list? As that should've brought back your taskbar at the bottom. If it hasn't then try pressing Ctrl and Esc. Perhaps it's just hiding from you. I went into control panel and removed the AVG toolbar/taskbar or what ever they call it. That was the only option apart from AVG free 2014 which is the virus checker. AVG sent me a questionnaire asking why I removed it - so I told them. Then had to do an uncontrolled shutdown and reboot again because there is no back facility anymore. Bottom bar comes up as it did before, but clicking on the Mozilla logo goes to AVG search again. AVG search is clearly not in an AVG program unless it's in the virus checker, in which case I'm bu**ered. I've searched Predecimal and come here, but apart from using this forum's links,I still have no back button

When I did the list, arriving at the task manager didn't give me either the top or the bottom bar, just a small box. If that box should be reconfigured to give the bars containing the useful bits, how do I do it?

Mixed blessings. Unfortunately I tried the link in Clive's post and ended up at the AVG secure search link page which I couldn't exit. I had to do an emergency stop and switch on again, but a reboot came back to the original desktop with the start buttons etc on the bottom - which should be good if I can keep it. The problem looks like a Mozilla one because when I clicked on the Mozilla logo on the bottom bar it eliminated all buttons and brings up the AVG search page. It looks like it tried to load the top bar initially, but failed to keep it there after a second or two. Some sort of conflict of interest? Mozilla allows a top bar but AVG doesn't?

I didn't hit anything, just left it alone as I was told. As for the others HC/Bagerap I did the list and ended at Libraries. Thank you. Never been there before, but it has 4 logos, Docs, Pictures, Music & Videos. The first two have my normal Documents and Pictures (which is reassuring) . The others have sample music folder and up arrow, BBC iplayer, sample video and sample video up arrow. There is an animals video of some description, but trying to access that goes into some sort of setup routine. For your next trick, please reinstate some manual control using the links I had previously without having to do the list of commands above

I don't have a top or bottom bar. I used to have Mozilla searching Google but now have an AVG logo (or at least I did to get to this forum). I haven't dared to shut down in case it completely bu**ers it up, but I don't have a back button any more, or a shut down X, or anything. Just the forum page. I've no idea whether it was a windows update or AVG but suspect the latter because it had a big AVG box saying don't open a browser. Or it could be AVG checking Windows was safe? So I left everything alone and ended up with virtually nothing.

Unfortunately I don't know yet as I'm waiting for the coin to arrive from the US. I bought it only because it was a good strike and very different to my existing example. It's in an early PCGS slab (MS66BN), so hopefully I can see the edge clearly. Just wondering because there are certain things that look a bit similar to my 1807/6 proof halfpenny such as the partially cut beads on the reverse to the upper right, the obverse rim has been polished down to give a toothed effect - something Taylor did when refurbishing dies for his restrikes. The off-centre rim is another regular feature of his because the collar on his press would regularly open up leading to multiple strikes indicated by rotation. All little points which warrant a closer investigation. Finally, the 7 is misplaced. Check for a filled in 6 which might have traces in the image. I'm thinking along the lines of a trial for the restrike.

I think you are imagining things. The 8s on the early milled are usually asymmetrical. This one is slightly worse than usual, but in the absence of an identifiable under-character I suggest it is a badly formed 8.

Is the edge conventional?

Without a picture it could be anything. A 10p filed down to 5p size, a 10p struck on the wrong blank, toy money. What does it weigh? What metal is it struck in? Lots of unanswerable questions without a picture.

Slightly impaired.

Thanks chaps,I couldn't summon the enthusiasm to look through the books.

Give me a clue please. That's all there is to go on.

how many auctions did the poor thing go in since then? 18

Ask for the proof of posting. That usually results in a lot of squirming by a guilty party. As I've said before to a seller, I'm not saying you haven't posted it, but without any evidence to the contrary I'm keeping all the options open. Remarkably the coin was returned within a week from the lost parcels depot in N. Ireland (instead of the usual 3 months) and forwarded to me. And I refused to let them off the hook by accepting a refund. I said I thought it worth waiting for a coin to appear given it was only costing 10-20% of market value. Especially as the seller had tried it on with someone else who I knew to be decent

Early 1700s

The point is you can mark it as posted, but if you have genuinely sent it the PO will give a proof of posting. Otherwise it is one person's word against the other. If the seller can't prove it was posted, they haven't a leg to stand on. That is eBay's default position too. Buyer good, seller bad.

Depends on the person who has lost it for you. A lot of things don't arrive because they fail to make the expected/desired price. If the person selling has a history of losing items, call their bluff - it has worked for me in the past. In cases where there is no proof of posting, I did it by suggesting that they look a bit harder for the coin and in return, I won't leave feedback. As long as he has proof of posting, then it absolves him of being the reason it is lost. I've had things go missing in the post from a proper auctioneer where I've been paid out, but asked if I still wanted it when it was returned to them half a year later. So technically not my property any more, but it did no harm to ask me the question. There are no rules, though I suspect that it goes along the lines of insurance. i.e. the insurance company owns any recoveries.

Dazzling.

The salvage from the Association was sold over 9 or 10 sales plus there was a lot of material that was sold elsewhere. You might be lucky to find it illustrated as the coin is one of the better ones. The Scottish unite might be illustrated, but if from a detector find is unlikely, unless recent.

Hi All. I'm looking for a decent image of a P2135 pattern penny to overlay on the piece below. When Shorthouse made a few restrikes of Moore's other patterns (cf. P2099-2134) in 1886, the die for the P2135 was missing. I think that the reason for this was the coin below which may have a trace of the original final A in GRATIA between the B & R of BRITT and almost certainly has used the same diademed bust punch. The coin in question is the one with this bust, but the legend is different. If anyone can supply a decent image of the normal coin it would be appreciated. Thanks.

The whole date looks to be in a different font. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=1822+crown&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=iLBDU8WKG8Ld7QaxzID4Ag&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&biw=1920&bih=914#facrc=_&imgrc=WaXDXdcGBLhIRM%253A%3Bk9KcpLiKbKbaWM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk%252Fpics%252Fg4%252F5s%252F5s22s.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk%252Fpics%252F5s.html%3B600%3B300

Yep, that's a dud. There are no George IV crowns with a milled edge, only with raised letters. The figure 2 is all wrong as well. You may also find the weight is only about 22-23g if it has been made from white metal.

I like to think that the average Englishman doesn't give a tinkers dam either way, I know I don't. I was hoping that I could just sit on the sideline and throw in the occassional bone to see the fur fly. What has dissapointed me is how mild mannered this discussion has been. Probably because the benefits, perceived or otherwise, are irrelevant in the overall scheme of things. A bit like the Irish question. A unified Ireland would still be subservient to Brussels. The right to self-determine what exactly? Any right a country may have to set its own course and live or die by its decisions will be far outweighed by the potential for the governing bodies higher up the food chain to bu**er things up. Brussels will determine Scotland's future whether in the EU or outside it, just as it currently does.