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Don't have a reference to hand, and I suspect that there won't be one. The price is off just a little bit say, £4.50, and the suspension bar accounts for most of that. BTW, how do you know that it's tin?

If it's the volume I'm thinking about, it was inaccurate at the time of publishing and never corrected.

Love Aretha and was lucky enough to see her live three times, but Prince Buster takes the crown on this track:

This is a long one, but I play it once or twice a year:

And for Italy in general: https://www.numismaticadellostato.it/web/pns/iuno-moneta/biblioteca/corpus

There are very few good references for early Venetian coins but these are good: http://www.numismaticaitaliana.org/biblioteca/files/libri/papadopoli_venezia_1.pdf http://www.numismaticaitaliana.org/biblioteca/files/libri/papadopoli_venezia_2.pdf

Right now I'm searching for a mis-filed medal and listening to this:

An Ex described me as a serial entrepreneur, and it wasn't meant as a compliment. It's just that I'm better at working for myself, or as an employer, than being an employee. In the late 60s before Uni I was a Coin Dealer's runner, buying and selling at Seabys 3-4 times a week for my father. After university, freshly minted and full of enthusiasm I had absolutely no idea what to do. I'd worked at Pinewood in the sound dept but the British film industry was going through one of its periodic slow deaths and there was little work. All of my mother's family were publicans and I took to that like a duck to water for 15 years or so but at the cost of a couple of marriages. I'm a language and linguistics grad and started using that for the first time, ending up at DHL learning about freight and courier trade. For a while I was the International Trouble Shooter/Hatchet Man. 82 countries in 3 years. Since then I've owned and operated Freight Forwarding companies, restaurants,hotels, shop fitting companies and at one time the only Asian outside catering company certified by the KLBD (Kosher London Beth Din). And I'm neither Asian nor Jewish. And now I sell a few medals and tokens. I kid myself I'm retired but there is always something on the boil. It's not the money, it's the involvement.

And now sadly my little bubble has burst. China is now doing medals, well someone is. This one's laughable, but so were the Gothic Florins when they first appeared. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Victorian-medal-first-order-of-merit-1887-jubilee-bronze-medal-3-x-1-4/132717804593?hash=item1ee698fc31:g:CPYAAOSwZ~hbGOWN

No one is "entitled to an opinion". They are however allowed an informed opinion. By which I mean that they know what they are talking about and not just spouting the last thing they heard /read.

There is the oft repeated anecdote from the Bodyline series: Douglas Jardine had appeared at the door of the Australian dressing room, objecting that he had heard himself described as a "bastard" on the field. Vic Richardson, the vice-captain, turned to his team. "All right, which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?"

I'm hoping that he doesn't get too clued up on medals and tokens. I buy a few bits from him for stock and get good deals.

I'm a dealer so I do sell, but only if I have a better example in my collection.

Yes, I have rather too many but they are great fun.

Regardless of the recipient's nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion or race, the biggest stumbling block in International Aid is people. Most of Western and Northern Europe citizens have little, or no, concept of the basic building blocks of society. Family, Clan, Tribe. At this level, nation state is a pure abstraction. This level of priorities exists throughout much of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It's how people exist in a society that still has echoes of the previous colonial masters who failed to to leave a legacy of commonly understood democracy. It's also how Europeans behaved towards each other after Yugoslavia collapsed. Families that had been neighbours for generations suddenly became enemies or executioners because of the "otherness" of their former friends. Circumstances change alliances. At various times in the 90s, I was involved in organising/leading voluntary aid convoys of British truckers to Bosnia, Kosovo, Croatia. We actually lost less to Serb depredations, thanks to UN oversight, than we did in the Aid destinations. The biggest and most frightening problem was unloading.Either you were going to be ripped off by an official looking local Militia or a few hundred hungry and distressed people would swarm your truck like locusts. Once or twice it worked to plan and local autonomy ensured that aid went to where aid belonged. Not getting robbed: Good Not getting killed: A bonus.

This is only a tentative ID, any help appreciated although it's a lousy image. 10 mm, 0.6 gr.

Thomas Kettle, not Henry and this is not one of his pieces that I've ever seen before.

Sounds like Steffi. She still buys whatever Geo IV I put up, and still takes forever to pay.

And if you like sailing, Essex has a fascinating and almost mysterious coastline.

I've just realised that you've bought one or two pieces from me in the past.

People in Canford Cliffs prefer their coins washed and the notes neatly ironed. How long ago Dr. Larry? I've never come across a market in BH13, and I'm only a mile away.

That's all well and good, but how did they get together in the first place?

The shuttlecock has been done, sort of. https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=321715

No, this is an entirely separate issue which we've discussed on another thread, Ebay's worst offerings. " Another new gitbay gripe is that if you look up say, 1925 half crown, and then go to Sold Items, something new and exciting happens. If you click See original listing against a Sold item to determine its quality against the one you have for sale; you're going to run into an entirely new and different current listing. It's only been this weekend and I hope that it's just a glitch, but this could be yet another nail in the coffin. "

FFS!!! A Paddington received 116 bids and went (supposedly) for £16,100?? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PADDINGTON-BEAR-IN-PADDINGTON-STATION-2018-50P-RARE-ACCIDENTAL-RELEASE/113047510762?hash=item1a52281eea:g:x1gAAOSwcfdbGPzH