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Very good ChKy, enjoyed that! Extremely suble, amazed your English is that good! We had a good old, grown-up, conversation the other day, after listening to a BBC 4 radio program about current German literature. The saddest thing that was said was the kids of today's Germany are still growing up with the stigma of being the offspring of 'mass murderers!' This was said by a German writer, not me, but I felt deeply saddened about it! My best friend (now dead) was married to a German woman, and his children also made this point very clear to me! I spend so much of my time educating my son to believe, when he's fighting the iron cross on a play station, that he's not fighting Germany. What chance have the poor kids of Germany got? How long before they raise up and say 'once more, we're tired of you depressing our culture and our ways'? I truly hope that comedy, and a lot more responsibility on the part of the gaming industry and sensible parents will help? We sensibly ban racism, yet stupidly continue it in this ridiculous situation where I have to tell my son 'NO, he's not the baddy!' when he's playing a a WWI or II flying game! Edit: sorry, that last point didn't come over properly! My point is they shouldn't even be allowed to develop games which discriminate in this way! It would be the same game to my son if the planes had catapillars and mushrooms for insignia!

You have my absolute confidence, old farthing!I'd stand any cheque you'd care to write against the boat I now live in! You can feel that way about certain people! I just hope the coin's not a fake?

Thanks ColinCoin will be with you tomorrow Regards Steven The cheque will bounce!

That's a pretty random interjection, Daniel, what are you wanting to upload?

Victoria copponze appears to have calmed down on here recently, so it's good to have you aboard stiring up the soup! Welcome to the best resource on the net!

I've never spent a great deal of time pawing over freeman's victoria halfpennies but, one thing's for sure, if he got rid of those useless images, he could've saved an awful lot of paper! Sacrilege I know! Apologies in advance to all that may offend!

'I said Ethel?' 'But it was too late, she'd already been mooned!'

'Stupid questions?' It would be a very empty forum if we didn't ALL post them more frequently than we should! Welcome aboard, and bring 'em on! Just out of interest, where are you from?

That's really pleasantly written, Peck, a very nice style! A pleasure to read, Sir! A pleasure indeed! Well done! A nice thing to have on your site, Mark! Great stuff all round!

Su-blinkin-perb! It's a great way to condense information. Good for dealer websites, and great for collectors!

Is he not? I keep seeing him in the list of online users and according to the forum he was last active 17 minutes ago. Ah, OK! So I'll change that to not been posting, then!

And peck's not even around to appreciate it at the moment, either!

We never dreamed such a thing could happen to an encapsulated coin! Thanks jacinbox!

And 90% of the people who buy those, don't even realise it's a copy of a 3d and NOT a sixpence!

Waht on ertah are we gniog to do wtih you pteer?

That's pretty cool Fubar, and another classic example!

It does amaze me that people will spend hundreds on coins without the most basic of understandings!

Certainly unusual! God knows WHAT that is? I'd be interested to hear some ideas!

What's really interesting is we all do this, and likely 'sub-consciously' fit into the world around us in the same way...presuming an emotion or a particular reaction from others, according to our expectations? Same as adding words that aren't even there in a psychology experiment! OK, enough of Krishnamurti and the attainment of enlightenment!

Thank-you!

Unusual obverse for a 1905? Edit: the power of the subconscious, you actually graded it, Bob! We did something similar in a psychology course, where we were all asked to read a section from a story on screen! Only 2 out of 10 people read their part correctly! The rest of us added words that weren't even there, to make it read correctly!

Here's one by Colin Cooke! A little sideline of Neil's, possibly? 201295829365

Agree, though, it does have that look about it in the pics!

Have you tried a little bit of acetone on a Q-tip to a small area? I bought a coin once, which had nice black toning in and around the letters...not after I'd acetoned it and found it to be some kind of paint or other!

Oh, yeah, now we're talking!