Peckris

Do you know what, Ski, that's really interesting, and I think it's been mentioned before, but I never picked up the latter parts of this thread by using the 'search for new content' feature that I do! So don't be underwhelmed, I think threads can genuinely slip below the radar sometimes, according to how people browse the forum, and when? If a forum or thread's icon is dark not light in colour, that means there are new posts since your last visit. It's what I go on, and apart from a few glitches, it hasn't let me down.

I may, but the question is "where". If I don't reply within a week, please assume what I was looking for hasn't turned up (I may even have sold my spares to Chris a few years ago, but I'll look out for you). Clearly, anything "I was after" I have now either acquired or no longer have an interest in obtaining. Surely, you mean, "anything I were after"

Well at least its described correctly, but why list it is the obvious question Because it's unique!!!

The reverse certainly is, at the very least. E7 obverses are tricky - you can get an otherwise gVF with little hair detail, or you can get a gF with lots of hair but the rest less so. I'd rate yours F/NVF personally, so gF would be a good average.

"The coin in the picture is the actual coin you will receive". OMG, please, no!!

So no coin can have an "edge knock" then?

If it really had been a "Geroge" crown, it would be very valuable! I wouldn't quite rate it at VF, between F and VF I'd say (that particular issue wears very well) but you didn't overpay considering recent prices.

No, I don't buy that either. We have to remember that when coins are produced, the intention is to fulfill a treasury quota and dies are used as they become available, usually oldest first. The fact that this can produce rare die combinations is, or at least was irrelevant to the mint. Presumably once the basic effigy for the new head was available, no dies were cut using the old one and therefore the pennies minted early in the 1926 run would have used dies probably dating back to 1921 or 1922 and kept in stock. There were probably quite a few 1922 dies unused, when you look at the size of the 1921 mintage and how suddenly it was reduced for 1922 when the economic sh*t hit the fan.

I've seen the Modified Effigy 1926 penny described as a mule, but is it, really? My understanding is that a mule is a combination of obverse and reverse dies that are not normally seen together, but either through unintended action at the Mint or from deliberate using up of old dies, are put together. Given that the Modified Effigy was planned before 1925 when it first made its appearance on halfpennies, and was an attempt to eliminate ghosting altogether on first issue reverses, then surely its use on all the 1926 coins was quite intentional? Ok, the gap to the new reverse designs of 1927/1928 (proofs/currency) is very small, but that doesn't make the 1926ME coins 'unintended' in any way. After all, apart from the penny, all other 1926ME coins are pretty common, or hardly scarcer - if at all - than the old head. Its appearance with the first issue reverses was planned, and therefore cannot be described as a mule. What do others think?

Hi. I have plenty of higher grades that I would like to check. Your best bet is Michael Gouby's book 'The British Bronze Penny' - very comprehensive.

Yes, there are red case specimen sets that are often sold as proofs, but aren't. Auction houses should really know better.

I dunno, Scott, it looks like the entire coin has been overlaid with itself, a kind of semi-transparent image over the same image, maybe a reflection or something? ALL the numerals look displaced by the same amount? I hope I'm wrong, and you've got yourself a goodun! You're absolutely right. If you zoom your screen, you can see there is a clear case of camera shake, where it moved halfway through the exposure. Most of the legend is doubled in an upwards direction. If it was an underlying 8, its upper loop would be higher than on that picture - I think what we're seeing is the loop of the 6 doubled.

So that's what Americans mean when they say "Go f*** yourself"

If you want good portrait Lizzies sell your house now.(I have a few nice ones under wraps) Being at the right place at the right time helps. It is not a subject you would race into unless you had 5 bullets in each of your Colts and several years study. I know Tom (Richard) goes for Ch1 1/- and Stewart (Coinery) love Liz 1. I'm 10 years behind both. We all have our Nr 1 subjects Georges 3 and 5 do it for me The odd ones? No, George 7 was the REALLY odd one It's a sheltered housing complex, but the move itself is driving me slowly bananas. The OTs won't put me grab rails in the kitchen (and I would fall over without them ) because the work surfaces are granite. Which actually means granite veneer over chipboard, so I'm not sure what the big deal is.

Which particular item on that page were you talking about Rob - the large quantity of free soil??? It's been taken down. The original item offered for free was this ad. 100% free dog manure mixture of terrier and lurcher Salford, Manchester lee on 07760930418 100% FREE dog manure i have a garden full of dog manure free to a good home its a mixture of terrier and lurcher collectoin only I copied it as I thought it might not survive very long. Dog MANURE??? First time I've ever heard the revolting stuff referred to as manure!

If you want good portrait Lizzies sell your house now.(I have a few nice ones under wraps) Being at the right place at the right time helps. It is not a subject you would race into unless you had 5 bullets in each of your Colts and several years study. I know Tom (Richard) goes for Ch1 1/- and Stewart (Coinery) love Liz 1. I'm 10 years behind both. We all have our Nr 1 subjects Georges 3 and 5 do it for me

Which particular item on that page were you talking about Rob - the large quantity of free soil???

For $25 I like iCollect and I am sure it will get better with newer versions. At that price it is very good value for money. It is just the idea of having to re-key my entire collection which is almost a thousand sixpences not to mention a good number of other coins. Holy hell! Thats a lot of typing!!!!! Well for me its only about 300! I even think thats quite a lot. I have been looking at Bento and it looks very good, I like the fact I can sync to the iphone which means the collection is at my fingertips and means I wont buy a coin when out and about that I already have or one not on my list ( a really bloody annoying trait; oh that looks nice !!!). I am still undecided but I am having a go at messing around with icollect and have a good look into bento. Just wanted to say that I do appreciate you drawing my attention to iCollect. Your welcome Jaggy, Just to draw your attention to what Peckris was advising I have managed to get a demo going of Bento 4 and have found a coin catalogue template, this is fully editable on Bento and you can drag and drop pictures into the template as well. This is the coin template My Bento 2 Coin template Although I can import from excel into a blank spreadsheet on Bento I tried to import directly to the coin template, no luck so far, something to do with the fields probably. Maybe it would be easier to go back to a notebook and pen !!!! I will keep messing and see what works for me. Yeah - when you import from one FMP database into another, you can get into a muddle with fields that aren't named the same. It's probably the same with Excel > Bento (a column in Excel = a field in BEnto). OR, it may be to do with the fact that the template was designed by an external user, not provided by Bento directly (though why that should interfere with basic functionality is anyone's guess). I notice there is a "Chicken Records" template also More Bernard Matthews than Col. Sanders I should think! I have managed to get the import sorted I think, field names was the issue, and have got my running totals up OUCH!!!! Well I did have them up on excel but I never paid attention to thescroll to the bottom of each sheet! As to the templates each to their own but some of the templates I have had only one thing pop into my head; Really????????? At the minute I am swaying towards Bento its really easy to use and I still love the fact that you can sync it with your iPhone. Many thanks for bringing this to my attention Peckris. You're welcome One more (apocryphal?) Churchill story to add to your signature - on being shown a memo advising on the correct use of English, e.g. not ending sentences with a preposition, Churchill scrawled in the margin "This is the kind of nonsense up with which I shall not put" !

For $25 I like iCollect and I am sure it will get better with newer versions. At that price it is very good value for money. It is just the idea of having to re-key my entire collection which is almost a thousand sixpences not to mention a good number of other coins. Holy hell! Thats a lot of typing!!!!! Well for me its only about 300! I even think thats quite a lot. I have been looking at Bento and it looks very good, I like the fact I can sync to the iphone which means the collection is at my fingertips and means I wont buy a coin when out and about that I already have or one not on my list ( a really bloody annoying trait; oh that looks nice !!!). I am still undecided but I am having a go at messing around with icollect and have a good look into bento. Just wanted to say that I do appreciate you drawing my attention to iCollect. Your welcome Jaggy, Just to draw your attention to what Peckris was advising I have managed to get a demo going of Bento 4 and have found a coin catalogue template, this is fully editable on Bento and you can drag and drop pictures into the template as well. This is the coin template My Bento 2 Coin template Although I can import from excel into a blank spreadsheet on Bento I tried to import directly to the coin template, no luck so far, something to do with the fields probably. Maybe it would be easier to go back to a notebook and pen !!!! I will keep messing and see what works for me. Yeah - when you import from one FMP database into another, you can get into a muddle with fields that aren't named the same. It's probably the same with Excel > Bento (a column in Excel = a field in BEnto). OR, it may be to do with the fact that the template was designed by an external user, not provided by Bento directly (though why that should interfere with basic functionality is anyone's guess). I notice there is a "Chicken Records" template also More Bernard Matthews than Col. Sanders I should think!

1. I think the original question wanted to know if it is a database of British coins? Which would be pretty damn useful, and a computerised Spink if such a thing exists. "A database that's already been set up" in this case is simply a blank pro-forma into which you input your own coins, right? (Which is what mine is - it all had to be input by hand, and new coins added manually). 2. Not as long as you might think. I used to be a computer programmer, and FileMaker's scripting language (which no user HAS to use - you can set up a working database without any knowledge of scripting at all) is fairly simple and basic. It's just knowing how to do what you want to do, which I suppose is the same in any computer language. Being a relational database, I have a separate table of values for each coin, and simply add a new record for each coin when values change. Then in the master database, I have a layout with a portal to the related file which pulls in all the values it has for each coin. When I said "going back to the 60s", that doesn't mean every year! I have 1965/6, 1968/9, 1976, 1980, 1985, 1997/8, and every few years from 2000 to the present. The critical periods were from the late 60s to 1980, then it subsided and stagnated for ages, and started to take off again from the late 90s. Sorry Peckris, I meant it was an empty blank database with which you would have to enter the data, I believe that you would have to collate from a few sources though. Your second answer makes a lot more sense now! It must be nice to see the appreciation in value of certain coins? Jaggy I wholeheartedly agree with your pros and cons, are you making the switch then? Regards Honest answer is that I haven't decided yet. I like the software and I like the price. What is putting me off is 1) the need to re-key everything. If there was an import function then I wouldn't hesitate and 2) the lack of a print engine. You see, this is where FileMaker makes a lot more sense. You can 1) import all your data from an Excel spreadsheet, and 2) you can create layouts specially for printing, with fields you select, and arranged exactly how you want. Problem is, FileMaker is a tad pricey. Now if its 'home and domestic' little brother Bento will do both of those, you're made! Bento is pretty cheap but has grown more powerful since its original incarnation. (Bento can certainly do the Excel import thing, I just Googled: http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6965/~/importing-data-into-bento-2,-bento-3-and-bento-4 ) Oh, and Bento is $49 on a Mac, but $5 on an iPhone or iPad

1. I think the original question wanted to know if it is a database of British coins? Which would be pretty damn useful, and a computerised Spink if such a thing exists. "A database that's already been set up" in this case is simply a blank pro-forma into which you input your own coins, right? (Which is what mine is - it all had to be input by hand, and new coins added manually). 2. Not as long as you might think. I used to be a computer programmer, and FileMaker's scripting language (which no user HAS to use - you can set up a working database without any knowledge of scripting at all) is fairly simple and basic. It's just knowing how to do what you want to do, which I suppose is the same in any computer language. Being a relational database, I have a separate table of values for each coin, and simply add a new record for each coin when values change. Then in the master database, I have a layout with a portal to the related file which pulls in all the values it has for each coin. When I said "going back to the 60s", that doesn't mean every year! I have 1965/6, 1968/9, 1976, 1980, 1985, 1997/8, and every few years from 2000 to the present. The critical periods were from the late 60s to 1980, then it subsided and stagnated for ages, and started to take off again from the late 90s. Sorry Peckris, I meant it was an empty blank database with which you would have to enter the data, I believe that you would have to collate from a few sources though. Your second answer makes a lot more sense now! It must be nice to see the appreciation in value of certain coins? Jaggy I wholeheartedly agree with your pros and cons, are you making the switch then? Regards Honest answer is that I haven't decided yet. I like the software and I like the price. What is putting me off is 1) the need to re-key everything. If there was an import function then I wouldn't hesitate and 2) the lack of a print engine. You see, this is where FileMaker makes a lot more sense. You can 1) import all your data from an Excel spreadsheet, and 2) you can create layouts specially for printing, with fields you select, and arranged exactly how you want. Problem is, FileMaker is a tad pricey. Now if its 'home and domestic' little brother Bento will do both of those, you're made! Bento is pretty cheap but has grown more powerful since its original incarnation. (Bento can certainly do the Excel import thing, I just Googled: http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6965/~/importing-data-into-bento-2,-bento-3-and-bento-4 )

YAY! But you do realise, now you've actually sold some, I'm not wasting any more sympathy on you?

They do it to try and make sure that their listing appears first in the list because the default sort criterion is price. Are you sure? If I don't set anything, the default they select is "Soonest ending"

1. I think the original question wanted to know if it is a database of British coins? Which would be pretty damn useful, and a computerised Spink if such a thing exists. "A database that's already been set up" in this case is simply a blank pro-forma into which you input your own coins, right? (Which is what mine is - it all had to be input by hand, and new coins added manually). 2. Not as long as you might think. I used to be a computer programmer, and FileMaker's scripting language (which no user HAS to use - you can set up a working database without any knowledge of scripting at all) is fairly simple and basic. It's just knowing how to do what you want to do, which I suppose is the same in any computer language. Being a relational database, I have a separate table of values for each coin, and simply add a new record for each coin when values change. Then in the master database, I have a layout with a portal to the related file which pulls in all the values it has for each coin. When I said "going back to the 60s", that doesn't mean every year! I have 1965/6, 1968/9, 1976, 1980, 1985, 1997/8, and every few years from 2000 to the present. The critical periods were from the late 60s to 1980, then it subsided and stagnated for ages, and started to take off again from the late 90s.

Спасибо to you too