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Glencore is being held together with baler twine. It's mineral assets are increasingly being left underground as manufacturing industry shrinks. Copper mines in Australia and Chile are for sale, coal mines too are under threat.$2 billion of assets went for sale last year just to cover debt repayment and now they're trying to refinance $8.5 billion on a deal that's not 10 months old. If we enter a full bloodied bear market, Glencore's blood will be among the first to be shed.

Noodle from Norwich's highly hammered penny http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/391378058635?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_nkw%3D391378058635%26_rdc%3D1

It looks like a lamination error to me, which is something I've not seen on Palestinian coins before.

Most of my sales fall below £300, but I've sold two cars in the last four months, both of which fetched far more than £2,500. Not a peep. So, have ebay decided that all high priced transactions are dodgy, or is it just coins?

We live in an age where information is instantly available. We can download and print anything that takes our fancy. Before that, we had TV to bring us our information, and before that; newspapers. In the nineteenth century, there were block printed broadsheets ( for those that could read ) and medalets depicting popular events. Very much like the " souvenir " rubbish peddled today by newspapers and the London & Westminster "Mints" Your medalet with the weeping willow overhanging a tomb was a common theme of these pieces. Many members of thd Royal family are celebrated in this way. Nice piece

Surfaces look cast to me.

I like buying in January Frank, there is less competition over most price levels. Even so, the first week of the new year has been better than usual for me, buying mainly tokens at prices I could only dream of in summer. I'm rather partial to your vicky half crown, and it probably won't owe you much ( if anything) when you come to move it on.

I am simply pointing out that this coin, very much like the ones you are spamming another site with, is in poor condition and wildly overpriced. Ebay is the place for overdescribed coins, not here.

Now look at the condition. Yours is F at best. $ 90 is the book price for XF.

Just look at ebay, completed listings.

I'm going to Girona for a few days at the end of March. Is anyone aware of coin shops or markets in the area. Haven't been back for 30 years and i suspect that the one dealer I knew will be long departed.

Thanks, you've given me the idea of staying in Palamos or Palafrugell after the first day, hit the Placa on sunday and fly home that night.

I have a meeting in Llagostera which will probably wipe out the first day, but I'll have 3 or 4 days to look around otherwise.

Does your balance work to two decimal points? It sounds as though it only works to one. If that is the case, it's choosing to either round up or round down each time.

I should have expanded on my method a little. I have six reflectors of differing sizes (always on the look out for broken torches.) The size is important as the coin needs to be about 4-5 mm from the top edge, I've found this to give little or no distortion. Lighting is a bugger, particularly for silver coins, as I normally use a macro camera mounted approx 50 mm above the object. But once you've cracked that it's pretty easy. I use it a lot for British tokens which normally have a "payable at..." edge. Next time I put the rig together, I'll put some pics up.

Take the reflector from an old small torch. Place coin evenly in it a shoot from above. Reverse out the image with PhotoScape or Picassa or picture editor of your choice,

One of my other manias. This picture was on a Deco Facebook forum with no other info except 1930s. I love it but probably wouldn't want to put my goodies in there. http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu165/bagerap/cabinet_zpsvmh5ineb.jpg

"So a tad early for actual art deco" this piece, yes. But history repeats itself an the Egyptian theme was around in the twenties & thirties, so I can see how it came to appear on my forum. Napoleon eh? Great piece of research there Mr. G

Listed as a coin cabinet, but I'm still trying to get details.

I know the barrio very well, lived there 50 years ago.

Sadly, there's cock all info, just a picture. But you're living in my favourite city where Nouveau and Deco run seamlessly into each other.

It's also listed as a medal, BHM 296

Matteo, sono d'accordo completamente.

Postage is a bargain though.