Peckris

I'm a fellow Scouser, I only remember sparrows and pigeons when I was a kid in Bootle, plenty of sport for the jigger rabbits Last time I was in Crosby (2010?) there were pigeons a-plenty, but not so many sparrows now! The wren has often been thought our smallest bird so maybe that was what they thought in 1937?

Not sure how much is determined by an Internet Service provider or within the email package Rob. But my email (was Hotmail, but it changed itself to Outlook) has the option under 'email settings' and 'Preventing junk email' to change how mail from particular senders is treated. If your wife's address were blocked there it could easily be unblocked. (Blocked senders' mail is just deleted and doesn't even appear in 'Junk'). Might be worth seeing what settings are available to you? If enough people register with a site, then ask for a site document to be emailed to them (as with that disabled site's advice manual / newsletter), and then flag up that email address as that of a spammer and report it, the site's host and other ISPs can be alerted and place all output from that site's email into a spam server. Which means that NO-ONE - not even the people who are genuine - will get the document. It's one version of what's called a "Denial of Service" (DoS) attack on specific sites, and can cause a great deal of harm. The more common method of attack is to get 000's of simultaneous logins which effectively brings down the site and prevents genuine users from getting in.

The wren was first used on the farthings of Edward VIII (1937) but these were never issued due to the Abdication. However, the design was kept for all farthings from then on, the first time Britannia had not been used since 1672. The smallest British bird for the smallest British denomination, would be the reason. As for the + in the obverse legend, that had been used many times on medieval coins, so I'm guessing that it has a Christian symbolism? Not absolutely sure though.

If you prefer here than photobucket (which I hate), there is a Pinned topic in the Beginners Area which explains how to resize. I even downloaded Picasa lol, especially for you PC owners, to demonstrate how in a series of pictures.

And that's an awfully nice token you have there.

I've been thinking about this : I reckon it's something to do with 'activity' and 'profiles', in other words making a (robot?) spammer seem genuine for some other main focus of activity or attack. (eBay? Amazon? Who knows). There's an even more sinister explanation: a benefits helpline forum for the disabled has been subject to a slew of trivial registrations that actually proved to be a kind of 'denial of service' attack, as those registrations caused a genuine newsletter sent out by the forum to end up in their hosts' spam server, and the forum had a helluva job trying to prove they were a genuine outfit and not spammers. And it was all due to a high number of registered users who made one irrelevant post and then nothing more, and then proceeded to mark the forum's output as spam, which caused the forum hosts - taken in by the DoS - to mark the forum as spammers and suppress their output. Maybe this lot are the same thing, but done by some very sore American collectors who don't like our attitude to AT coins and want their revenge? Probably nonsense, but you never know...

lol, he want's ONE example from each reign! Goodness knows how you would choose just ONE Lizzie to collect Stuart! Easy peasy - a Rank-Broadly silver Britannia from the late 90s or early noughties should do it.

LOL - the first time I ever went to a nightclub I was underage and pissed. Every time after that, we'd gone decimal; I couldn't even score a 1967.

Ok, got Englands striking history and Coincraft 2000 What other forums do you recommend? Im planning to get a Henry VII coin first to start my series. Will do my research and ask for opinion. Sly, mean, suspicious, underhanded, paranoid... are you sure you don't want to start somewhere else? I will check those Forums out Peck, must admit I had never heard of them before now! You could start with Mary and work backwards and forwards, she was quite sweet ... Yeah, if you leave the tomato juice out

Welcome to the Forum brg, that looks like a great link! Downloading as we speak (Despite rudely claiming that Macs can't read it, I have to tell the site owner that Mac computers have been able to read PDFs since the year dot )

It could be the Power Supply Unit - ok, it's a repair, but if the laptop is otherwise in good condition, it's worth having done.

Ok, got Englands striking history and Coincraft 2000 What other forums do you recommend? Im planning to get a Henry VII coin first to start my series. Will do my research and ask for opinion. Sly, mean, suspicious, underhanded, paranoid... are you sure you don't want to start somewhere else?

Put your pictures up here. (There's a pinned topic in the beginners forum about how to get your picture file sizes reduced). There are many members who can give you advice.

Apparently our own dear Queen was an avid listener of BBC Radio's "What's My Line?" - she really wanted to know...

Damn! So that's why my washing machine stopped working...

Bonnie Prince... oh, wait.

Block the crap sellers. Gradually build up your list. Ebay were meant to limit sales to 100 listings per month.This doesn't seem to work. When you get stuff like this it is cringeworthy. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290953441637?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649 trouble is punters occasionally actually buy this tat. That's a perfectly acceptable coin for someone who wants a collectable example to fill a gap. Divide the asking price by 7 or 8 and I'd be happy enough with it. The problem is that you have to sift through the crap to find the occasional gem. I'm only on this planet for three score years and ten. It's ok for you youngsters though. So true. Having said that, one day I will try out Declan's massive exclusion zone, which I've got buried in some document somewhere on my computer if only I could find it!

Not wanting to spoil the punchline, but the apparent true heir to the throne is much closer to you than to me

It's the completists that do it! They'll have a decent run of lustrous G-V pennies, and their 1915 will be lagging behind all the others. When there's a gap to fill, book values go out of the window. Having said that, Coin Yearbook 2014 says £80 in UNC for this coin, so grade overestimation will play a part too. Shiny must equal UNC. Weren't many of the coins produced in WW1 in much the same state, due more to die wear than coin wear ? A coin in the original mint bag might not look UNC given such circumstances. Agreed - but that particular example doesn't seem to have the overall weakness of die wear, more the selective rubbing to the highest points of what looks otherwise to be a reasonable strike.

Without checking online, and probably making a fool of myself, didn't Edward IV's line not get very far on the throne (with his brother Richard III blamed for killing his sons). Maybe it was Edward III in the program ? cheers Garrett. Actually, the royal line gets interrupted a fairly regular intervals : William the Conqueror; bugsy's turn during the Wars of the Roses; Henry VII (a very dubious claim); James I; William III; George I; though it's been fairly secure since then. But the Royal claim to trace their line back to Alfred is just laughable. The whole Richard III killing the Princes thing was a total posthumous frame-up anyway. 1) The Princes were LIVING in the Tower (a royal residence), not prisoners; 2) they were then declared illegitimate as Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was arguably not a legal marriage; 3) Richard didn't try to dispose of the many other offspring ahead of him in the line of succession, e.g. all of Edward's daughters, and his older brother George's children (it was actually Henrys VII and VIII who saw to that); 4) Henry VII passed an Act of Attainder against Richard accusing him of treason and all manner of barbarous acts, though strangely it doesn't even mention the two Princes; 5) Margaret Beaufort, Henry's mum, had far more reason to see off the two boys than Richard, who had been voted king by Parliament; 6) the rumours didn't start until after Richard's death, and no-one actually knows what happened to the Princes... and so the list goes on.

crop from 1967 penny Hmm. That's worse than my 150 dpi scans blown up in Photoshop! Well, certainly no better.

Unfortunately those pictures are in the execrable Photofucket, so the same size as they are here Do you have any selected enlargements David? Those would prove whether this thing is any good or not.

I guess the point of them being so 'unrealistic ugly' is to make it impossible to convert them to a 'real fake'! After all, real fakes are worth 3 figures on eBay. Is making an accurate copy of coin of the Realm not forgery? or does the law only cover only items that are currently legal tender? Yes, I think the law only covers legal tender. But if you faked a non-current coin with the intent to deceive and con people out of their hard-earned, that would be illegal too (though a different law). Now you're talking!!

I will only wear mine along with a white version. As for Ed the Red, you must be joking??? He's turning out not much less a shade of blue than the Vampire Cameron!

"Funny ha ha" or "funny peculiar"?