Peckris

How did you do that! When I click 'Quote' it gives me unremovable boxes instead the 'Quote/endQuote' code we had before. (As you see, I can delete the contents, but how do you get rid of the boxes themselves?)

I just Googled this from their site: "Lawrence Chard Lawrence Chard started dealing in coins, including gold sovereigns in 1964. The original business was located in Dale Street, Blackpool. In 1969 we bought and moved to our current premises. R. & L. Coins Originally we were known as R. & L. Coins, and we still retain that sign on our facia. Chard (1964) Limited In 1992, we changed our name to Chard (1964) Limited, partly because the Chard name was well known and well regarded, particularly by many Blackpool "old-timers", and partly because in addition to our original business dealing in coins, we have a gold bullion, gold jewellery, and diamond ring section of our business." So L was Leonard though it doesn't say who R was. And this: "Company Details Trading Names Chard Chard Tax Free Gold Chard Coins Chard Gold R&L Coins Company Name Chard (1964) Limited Address 521 Lytham Road Blackpool Lancashire FY4 1RJ" They now seem to deal only in gold sovereigns.

Editing seems to work ok for me, unless it looks different once I've hit the button to 'Add Reply'. That's not quite what I meant - you can certainly change people's quoted posts to e.g. bold, italic, and red, as I've just done with yours! But try to delete nested posts, and it's a different matter (before, you just deleted anything between a or even just bits of it). E.g., I can't see how to remove my nested quote here, and just leave yours. ETA: Interesting - putting {quote} and {/quote} - but using square brackets - has generated an empty quote box!

None of you has mentioned those great stalwarts of 60s and 70s Coin Monthly - R&L Coins of Blackpool. They took out multi-page ads as I remember, selling mostly lower grade key date and date-run items, modern stuff, new issues, and accessories. I bought a few nice things from them in 1979 when I worked in Blackpool (BU 1929 penny, and early strike 1933 halfcrown UNC, among others). Peter Ireland too, who was also based there. The Leonard Kaitcher you mention - was he the same guy that ran the KAITCER COINS ad in Coin Monthly? Quite high priced but top quality stock if I remember right.

Well, come on - she was advertising 45 years ago!!

"I can't even afford a top class G5 shilling at the moment, so I'm just not buying right now! :(" Not even a 1918, 1926ME or 1936? (There's one defect with this new forum layout, unless I'm missing the obvious - you can't edit 'quoted' posts down to just the bit you want, or the last person who posted? Looks like all you can do is copy & paste, but then you lose whose quote it was).

The current bid is less than $30 per coin - I don't think you're missing anything.

Oh yes - Carole was a regular advertiser in late 60s Coin Monthly. One of several women then involved in coin dealing, such as Joan E Allen, and a shilling specialist whose name I've forgotten, and a husband and wife team among others ... all gone now.

Come back, Exchange & Mart. - all is forgiven. In the late 60s you could get a complete grading kit (cost to the seller from circulation: 5d) for a very reasonable 7/6 including postage. Or was it 6 coins? Perhaps they threw in a 'Poor' bun penny to complete the kit.

Now, their catalogue was GOOD. And as they themselves weren't shy of saying (at its mid-90s launch) it was the first proper new catalogue since Seaby/Spink. Great collecting notes at the head of each different type section, plus some good general articles at the back. I remember the prices seemed higher than Spink at the time, but they were soon leapfrogged.

My word, Master JMD's posts must have taken up quite a lot of forum space!

I once bought a cheap auction lot in a black plastic wallet which included a nicely toned GEF but very common 1887 JH sixpence. Folded neatly behind it was the description of the item in The Phoenix, "Gem Uncirculated... £30". This was at a time when even a BU example was rated about £10 in Spink! The Phoenix was very entertaining reading, and it was free. The only value-for-money item they ever did.

Not sure I understand you Rob? The presence of new posts is - as it has always been - indicated by a dark coloured folder against the forum name, instead of a pale colour. Once in a new post, I notice (YAY) that there is now a "Next unread topic" button adjacent to the "Back to ......" button, so there's no need to clear darker coloured topics, it can all be done from within each topic without having to go back out to the topic list. YAY. This has been discussed before - a couple months ago. Some use the icons to tell them what status the posts are, others don't know, or can't be bothered to find out what they mean and just go on the date and time of the last post. I obviously fall in the latter group, as once a post is read, you know what it says. But that means you have to remember what time you last read that particular forum! (And there's a dozen of them..) There's no way I could remember that so I always used the folder colour to tell me. Now though, there's a nifty little trick in this new layout : if you're at the last post in a particular topic, there's a little "Next unread topic -->" button, which disappears when you've read all the unread topics. Nice!

"Posted a day ago" - I hope that means 24 hours, not a second more, not a second less

Hasn't the Queen been on all banknotes for the past 60 some years? Nah, it's John McEnroe

The reverse especially has a kind of 'cast' look to it.

Not I.

Oy!!! Why does my user details feature the phrase "0 warning points", while no-one else has an equivalent rating? 'Snot fair!! (Drums heels on floor).

It does - YAY

It does seem to work. Clicking on the image took me to the bbc web page you quoted. Me too.

Not sure I understand you Rob? The presence of new posts is - as it has always been - indicated by a dark coloured folder against the forum name, instead of a pale colour. Once in a new post, I notice (YAY) that there is now a "Next unread topic" button adjacent to the "Back to ......" button, so there's no need to clear darker coloured topics, it can all be done from within each topic without having to go back out to the topic list. YAY.

Just be patient...

My first thoughts are that they have got the grades on 3 and 4 the wrong way round. It would be deeply interesting to find out what their thinking was. (There may be a new forum format, but I still make the mistake of not noticing there's a whole extra page until after I've posted at the bottom of Page 1).

I pressed the "like" button on your post and got an error message - "You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day" Some things haven't changed!!

Ditto here, using Safari on a Mac. And IMAGE UPLOAD IS NOW WORKING! Yay. (Just to celebrate something other than the bl00dy royal birth).