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With these pics I can't tell a lot, but to be fair there is a chance that the host coin is a genuine Mexico issue. In this space of time, I can't find a match for the chopmarks, but to be honest I don't like them. As for the "head of a fool on the neck of an ass", that's really wrong.

I'd very much like to see the entire 360 degree shot of the edge. The chopmarks also look questionable, so even if the host coin is genuine the piece could easily be an - ,〝after-market" assembly.

Ditto

Before Syriza lost its nerve, there was a good chance that a unilateral Grexit would have lessened the economic turmoil in Greece. But in circumstances that have yet to be explained, the Greeks caved in. After his return from the EU Wroclaw Summit of September 2011, US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is reported to have said “Those bastards in the EC, they are going to beat Greece to a pulp with a f**king baseball bat”. In late 2014, the Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reported a confirmation of the story after reading Geithner’s memoirs. Tim was quoted as follows: “…..the Europeans came into that meeting basically saying: ‘We’re going to teach the Greeks a lesson. They are really terrible. They lied to us. They suck and they were profligate and took advantage of the whole basic thing and we’re going to crush them.” AEP’s comment in the Telegraph piece went like this: ‘So now we know: Europe’s leaders did indeed attempt to smash Greece back into the Stone Age out of vindictive rage; conspired to withhold debt support for Italy unless the elected leader was forced out; and mismanaged the EMU crisis for three years with a level of stupidity that makes you want to weep.’ It leads me to believe that if there is no Brexit, Britain will suffer similar punishment from an unelected hierarchy of Goldman Sachs alumni. But this is not my main reason for wanting to leave. The EU financially is a house of cards. Quantative Easing has become the norm (as in the US and UK) in a desperate attempt to prop up economies with no production. Greece has been raped and all of its profit centres privatised. Italy has an enormous hole in its banking system, Portugal also. Spain has a similar problem compounded with severe political instability. In France, a well known bank whose initials coincide with a British right wing political group (French privacy laws make naming names very dangerous) are broke. No other word for it, held together with baling twine. And last October, Reuters said: “ Deutsche Bank has $1.5 trillion of declared asset value on top of $67 billion of net worth. But a large portion of its assets are loans and related financing vehicles and trading positions connected to Glencore, VW, the energy sector, emerging market companies, high yield and a highly unreliably valued net derivatives position. If Deutsche Bank has “mismarked” the value of all these assets by just 5% its net worth is wiped out. “ The EU has never been audited, its banks and banking systems are a busted flush (UK included) and when, not if, the first bank collapses the whole edifice comes down with it. So, now that we are all bank creditors, not clients; who fancies being on the wrong end of a Eurobank Bail In?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1870-Queen-Victoria-Very-ScarceNOne-Penny-6-G-Lustrous-Lustre-Indeed-Must-See-/301945480385?hash=item464d5a64c1:g:~2oAAOSwubRXJkEb No listing for the second item number

It looks like there are Yuan Shih-kai dollars also known as Fatman in there. They were first issued in 1914 and are very collectable. It's reckoned that there some 750 million made. Sadly, there's probably an equal number of fakes. My guess is that if you buy the book, tomorrow another equally dusty book will take its place.

Thank you David (belated Happy Birthday BTW) I confused the Madeiras with the Azores.

When you say inscribed, do you mean it appears to be done after the coin was first struck? No coins were specifically minted for the Azores until the following year, 1843. Yours may be a countermark to show that it was coinage for the islands. Portuguese colonial coins are frequently marked and reused in other parts of the empire.

And that's what I'm getting too.

Just tried Firefox. 403

I've just disabled all my plugins except Chrome and tried again. 403

Both my IP addresses? I have two?

It happens on click/edit. Cache & cookies cleared.

I tried to add my website over the weekend and also got 403.

First depress the price, then buy big.

Brandon, does Brown list this in any other metals?

If it appears to be gold, then the question is; did any of your forebears serve in the British army in India or the Far East? It sounds as if you may have an Indian jeweller's copy of a half sov. The best of them were made of real gold and of the appropriate weight. Change of monarch meant little, which could account for the date discrepancy.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-03/its-official-moment-canada-has-no-gold-reserves-left It's an interesting trend. Central banks have been artificially suppressing the market price of gold for over four years. A step away from gold by sovereign states would allow the market to float free, and almost certainly rise. Cui bono?

It appears to be a gaming counter.

Spink have some spectacular Guineas and half Guineas later this month and a Gothic crown proof that I lust after. Their catalogue photography has improved too.

I'm not aware of anything published, but interest in these has greatly increased in the past few years. Along with the prices.

I meant to put this link up some time ago, but there's only a day left. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/162001070658?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

My experiment with the bar is working out OK so far, but not as quickly as anticipated. Heavy selling in New York nearly every day would seem to indicate the price will not be permitted to rise significantly in the short term. Looks like a constant battle between the speculators and the central banks.

This arrived today.

Thanks. This sale is going towards a little acquisition money when I hit Girona later this month.