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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.

Is this any clearer?

Whenever possible I use CD mailers with two sheets of card either side of the coin. Been lucky so far, even with customs declarations attached.

As far as doppelgangers go, I've always thought that this Lackington's token looked suspiciously like Stewie Griffin from Family Guy

This tells all: http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php/topic,6685.msg43164.html#msg43164

We always used fall for that season. Then some smug bastard imported l'automne from France, and down the slippery slope we went.

Gotten is a pure English form as the past participle of Got, if somewhat archaic. There are a lot of UK pubs called the Litten Tree, another example of the ten ending, this time as an adjective.

Try coincommunity.com Their Canadian section is very lively and knowledgeable.

The lions on the shield have a marked resemblance to poodles.

Just had a week on the Norfolk Broads for the first time and, apart from the monsoon conditions getting there (windscreen wipers failed at Thetford) it was beautiful.

Considering how much I'd had to drink before I wrote that, it came out remarkably comprehensible.

Toots is on in the background when I'm not sorting coins and stuff. Can't keep still to Mr Hibbert, very bad policy when handling proofs. Nice to see another John Downland afficion.

To photograph edges, first get yourself an old fashioned torch. One with a central bulb and, more importantly, a reflector. Take out the reflector and throw the rest of the torch away. The new LED versions are much better anyway. Standing the reflector so that from above, it becomes a dish place your edge marked piece as horizontally as you can in this bowl. As you're lowering it in, check that you can read the edge description. i.e. it's not upside down. This makes the later stuff easier. Now as you hover over the coin with your camera at an appropriate angle you'll see the edge inscription reflected in the bowl you have created, only now it will be in mirror writing. Take your pics and then reverse them out in your favourite editing software.

OK, so you've probably heard Werewolves of London on the radio. Warren was a story teller, and a bloody good one at that. Genre? Rock with a twist. And some serious musicianship.

And it had to come eventually MrBE:

There's a hell of a lot of Peck's list that resonates with me and also, the incredible Warren Zevon. Lawyers, Guns & Money is blasting through the house as I write. Roland will be next.

The Strawberry Hill Boys (Strawbs) were the resident band at the Green Man Folk Club in West Ealing which I helped a friend mismanage in the early sixties, and Dave Cousins lived a pint's spit from the White Bear Folk Club in Hounslow which I later ran. Paddy's post has made me realise that I've got nothing of theirs to listen to unless I try to resurrect some old cassettes. Regardless of which, Windows Music Player tells me that I do a lot of this: David Bowie Roxy Music Incredible String Band Planxty Reverend Gary Davis Ry Cooder B B King Postmodern Jukebox Robert Johnson The Cranberries Little Feat Carolina Chocolate Drops Oscar Peterson DakhaBrakha Clapton & Cale Little Willies Norah Jones Jussi Bjorling acapellascience Cajun & Zydeco compilations

My best guess is that it has a diameter of 25 mm, which probably makes it a Pachinko token. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko

That's a very good call.I was working through alphabetically and I've only just got past Bangla. Kaithi fits side two very well but I think that we may be looking at two languages on this piece

There are subtle differences which, in the hands of someone more expert than I, can help differentiate between C18th and C19th texts. That being the time of a broader cultural shift to modern Devanāgarī .

Odd one. Because of the crudeness of the script I'm not entirely sure whether it's Sanskrit or Devanāgarī alphabet. I think I can see 25 in Sanskrit in the centre of the first image but that makes little sense in terms of Indian coinage.

130 £2.00 (100 of which are 1986) 38 £2.00 bimetal 560 x £1.00

I ask because there are quite a few "coins" on the market purporting to be Eddie and early George V farthings but which have the remains of visible lustre. These include the spurious watch fobs with the space around George's head neatly cut out.

Shouldn't that 1905 be mint darkened?

Yes, I realised that I'd repeated myself and changed the text