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I have a friend, a retired horologist, who recently asked me if I could find him a halfcrown. He chose a 1948 from the group I gave him and offered no reason for the request. Tonight he showed me what will become my next birthday present. Albeit in a better case and with blued steel hands.

I phoned Chris the watchmaker as he 's still finishing the watch and he tells me that the movement is actually set into the coin. Pics when I get it back. I want to see his reaction to the Edward VIII watch.

I'm very glad that I didn't give him a better coin as it has been milled down to wafer thin and the edge skimmed. Quartz movement I believe.

The Brits have ever been amused by "Johnny Foreigner" attempting the Queen's English. This probably wouldn't go down so well today, unless it were at a Farage party.

Which is just as well, because there's no decent beer in Blandford anymore.

And only a few miles from me. Be still my beating heart.......

Given the state of wear to the reverse and the ammount of tooling to George's bust this coin was fairly dead on its feet by the time the enamel came. I'd estimate 1885-1920. Arts and Craft Movement. Every man an artist/metalsmith/jeweller/etc. In truth, it was a period when ordinary working folk started to to produce works of art at home. Started of as a middle class thing but at the start of the C20th, the Workers Educational Trust opened up opportunities for working people to become involved. And they took to it with a vengance.

Drink. It can have terrible effects.

I'll be in for a few quid and telling myself how much I'm saving: https://spinkbooks.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=99

Yes, that's on the list

"This seller is spewing out this rubbish as can be seen by all of his other items! People are still 'drawn-in' despite the buy-it-now prices - take a look at the buyer feedback. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jubilee-Bust-Double-Florin-Roman-I-VICTORIA-DEI-GRATIA-Four-Crowned-Shields/264060685003?hash=item3d7b3e4acb:m:mtnUUZX7U-b6ET3Id_c1UXg:rk:1:pf:0" Interestingly, the seller information shows Manchester and the item location shows Singapore. She looks like she's drop shipping.

And I should mention that in my time as a freight forwarder we hated Carnets. Temporary exports were hell to document and police, something always went wrong. One company that exclusively handled Rock tours with all of the amps, lights, instruments and scaffolding, charged 12 x the going freight rate and were lucky to make a profit most years. If you can find a coin dealer with a bulk shipping arrangement with a TPG it's by far the best arrangement.

If the bottom image has a vlenticular hologram centre, then I've seen a few similar. Not encountered the top[image thought.

The "ball ache" documentation is called an ATA Carnet and is usually issued by your local Chamber of Commerce. Basically it's a temporary import/export document which must stay with the goods at all times.

Probably gold but it looks like an Eastern jewellers copy.

Thanks Peck. I've underslept, been up since 3.30 and now I've got this strange desire to listen to Bill bloody Bailey all day.

"This is likely to prove extremely difficult in its execution as it would require electronic scanning of lorries moving in either direction for the passage of conforming items, but any item that does not conform to agreed standards or is otherwise unregulated would need some method of customs inspection. i.e. Those two provisions are essentially mutually exclusive, so a prolonged and potentially open-ended customs union is not a fanciful distortion." Anyone familiar with the Irish border issue Pre EU will understand that in comparison, a sponge is watertight. The two way traffic in commodities as diverse as butter, detergents, diesel of both colours, tobacco, all of this was facilitated by farms and warehouses that literally straddled the border. Drive in from NI, exit in the Republic.

" Greece had cripplingly severe austerity requirements imposed on them in order to stay afloat after 2008, but without the cash injection from the EU they would have gone bankrupt." They did go bankrupt. The EU injections went straight to BNP Paribas and DeutscheBank, lrenders of first resort to Greece. Greek pensions and Social Security were slashed. It is im,possible for Greece to ever vrepay the trumped up debts engineered by outside forces. Many economists in 2015 expected Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to declare Greece's debts as "odious" ¹, but for reasons that he has never disclosed he didn't do so. ¹ In international law, odious debt, also known as illegitimate debt, is a legal theory that says that the national debt incurred by a despotic regime should not be enforceable.

A key point of the EU, which goes largely unrecognised, is its undemocratic nature. Your local MP is elected to serve the interests of their constituents. If enough of the electorate get on his back on a particular issue, it is likely that he/she will raise it in parliament and in some cases even propose a Private Members Bill to amend or introduce legislation. Your MEP on the other hand is a rubber stamp. They can question and lobby the Commission and the Council of Ministers and up to a point, reject legislation. They cannot introduce legislation, their role is passive not active. Likewise The European Commission and the Council are appointed, not elected. You have gone through the charade of voting for a paper tiger. Greece was financially raped by the EU, with the connivence of the Right Wing Govenor of the Bank of Greece, as a bloody warning to any other member of the Euro currency not to get out of hand.

Photoscape has resize and batch editing. Free too.

As a Latin gerund, referendum has no plural. The Latin referenda would indicate that more than one issue was involved. Referendums seems to be the TV and MSM view, and no problem there. For myself, I prefer plebiscite.

The CCF boards for reporting fakes have been made private. I'll be a member by close of business today. You can apply to CCF boss bobby for entry.

I can't find the CCF reporting counterfeit heading anymore. I'll message the owner Bobby and see what's happening.

I'm being very careful in what I say because I don't want to be sued, but this comment from the individual mentioned previously, pretty much says it all. "It was increasingly clear that any coin, even the most blatant fake, was safe if it came from a major SuperSeller"