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Coinery

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  1. Coinery

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    I guess to make my above sentence 'grammatically' correct, the iFault kindly removed the word 'like' for me? Thanks iFault, it reads so much better now! Grrrr!
  2. Coinery

    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    I'd to know what he has in mind as his lowest offer? What a coin!
  3. Coinery

    Guess The Grade Revisted

    Do you post them, or drop them in?
  4. Coinery

    Guess The Grade Revisted

    80 and 60! Do they grade with those numbers? That's where I reckon? Lovely florin, Paul! Edit: and 100
  5. I've never used the flash setting ever! I've always added artificial light. My current (and I mean current, as I'm forever changing my mind) set-up involves two desk lamps, one with a daylight bulb in, which I position as close to directly over the coin as I can, without it blocking the lens, and the other with a warm light bulb in, which I hold in my hand and point more-or-less at 45 degrees, moving it back and forth, until I like what I see in the view finder! A pain to set it all up, but I do photograph in batches to justify the effort!
  6. Another day it would be different. I just wish I could take consistent pictures. Trying to find a happy balance of flash, natural light, shading the flash to stop glare, and all the other settings on the camera is a nightmare.It looks very natural, and the rose-tone looks about spot on if you ask me? Quality image!
  7. Very nice lippy, I'll grant him that!
  8. I don't see it as lying, if you can tell me the coins look a certain way in-hand, but the camera hasn't represented that somehow? If you could turn that image into something that was closer to what you held in your hand, that wouldn't be unfaithful, would it? And for the record, I agree, your images are a million times better! They're not blue anymore! Edit: I mean, look at Rob's cnut with all that pink lippy in the legend?
  9. Yes, I agree, I don't get any quality tone at all from the pictures! Do you ever try to correct the lighting/saturation/etc. with software, or are these straight off the camera?
  10. Do you think they might have slabbed that one as it flicked from the dies?
  11. Well, bloody 'ell, a round C1 shilling with all its letters complete and in their singular form, IIFF YYOOU KKNOO\\W WWH/\AT II MEEE/\AI\N? Not something you see every day!
  12. There you go, Cliff, what did I tell you!
  13. Coinery

    Bells for VE Day!

    That choked me up ChKy! thanks for finding that for us all! I'm going to look that book up!
  14. Coinery

    ID PLEASE

  15. Coinery

    ID PLEASE

    I've been run over three times! Once as a small kid, when a car reversed over my leg. Second time I was talking to someone on the payment beside the A38, when an accident spilled off the carriageway onto the payment, breaking my femur and pelvis, amongst a pile of other internal bruising and bladder unhappiness. The third time I was unloading some weed killer from the back of a van that was parked at the side of a road. I was in a high-vis jacket, but the lady who was driving down the road, peering through a ten inch hole in her frosty window (the police description, not mine), didn't see me, or the van, and ploughed right into the back of it! I jumped up, but left one leg trailing (silly boy) and, hey presto, another broken bone in my leg! Some would call me unlucky! I think I'm very, VERY, lucky!
  16. Coinery

    Bells for VE Day!

    No offence at all! I was interested in the symbolism of peace returning, and the end of bloodshed, upon the battlefield, at least!
  17. Coinery

    Bells for VE Day!

    ChKy, I'd be interested in your take on it! Are there any celebrations in Germany that mark the joy of soldiers returning home, and families being reunited after such suffering on all sides?
  18. I wonder if you are meaning the fat 8, thin 8 variety? Have you visited this yet: http://www.aboutfarthings.co.uk/Farthing%20-%201862.html If the variety small 8 over large 8 existed, I would've expected to find it on Colin's site? He'll probably be along to correct me shortly!
  19. Coinery

    Charles I Tower Shilling Acquisition

    Hang on, someone else on here has just bought one of those?
  20. Coinery

    ID PLEASE

    That's actually quite a nice coin, what's your example of it, TG? I'm guessing you upgraded it?
  21. Coinery

    ID PLEASE

    No, it's alright, it's Ch..chuffin' great! It's true, I'm not a massive fan of the C1 shillings, but that's not a bad coin, it's actually hammered onto the flan, and the flan's nearly all there, and it's coin-shaped! There are better reigns out there, of course, George VI and Elizabeth II for instance? No, it's a nice coin, and I know the price will have been a good and fair one! Someone's gotta love 'em!
  22. Hah, brilliant! I can't believe it, I was actually listening to Abbey Road when I scrolled up and spotted this!
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