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Here it is a month later after this sorry episode, and the PC soldiers on. What particularly chaffed me about the whole nonsense is that the Geek works for someone I have known for a long time and I rather hate to gripe about it. I had a lightning strike on my old PC back in '01, it sauntered on on a slow labourious journey of gradual demise until '05 and then gave up the ghost finally.

My CD burner gave out a few months ago, so I was living on borrowed time until I replaced it. Of course I didn't back anything up in awhile, so the HD crashed hard on Saturday. PC shoppe said could not be fixed, was terminal etc. So I went and picked it up to harvest the RAM and the other drives out for use in other PC's. But I hooked it up one last time, and it came back to life. Now everything is backed up on a Memory Stick, and I will never trust this beast again. I lost programmes, but no files. Word to the wise, back up back up back up. And don't always trust the Geek at teh computer shoppe.

Indeed it is a Charles I bodle or turner. The II in Roman numerals denotes the value. Other than that with the image being dark(at least on my monitor) I cannot yet break it down by subtype etc.

Isn't that the remarkable thing about the internet, it has brought all the loonies off of the street corners shouting at people and put them online to shout at people at much greater distances than merely across the street!

Calling the police because of email. Oh boy, I think you are dealing with an institutional candidate.

Can't we have fun torturing them before we block them?

Like I should say anything about imaging, I have a 1978 USSR mint set that I have sitting on my scanner for the last 4 days that still isn't scanned, because I have to do(shutters) 5-6 images of all the paperwork etc.

I canna understand you guys that tempt without photographs

I have to admit, I get to where with my site, I am rather selective of responding to inquiries now. Otherwise it is a waste of time. Probably best to just tell them to look up their local coin dealer, and let them punish him.

No no no, be nice to him, please. I have six Churchill fuglies that I will sell him for a mere £100 eaches, then he can pawn them off for £600 eaches:) Going a bit OT here, on another forum we have had posters coming in and posting images of Russian coins or tokens and requesting valuation etc. You tell them it is a fake, and then you get the reply they have had it for decades and it can't possibly be a fake. Next thing they start flaming. Kind of makes you wonder why we bother with these nimwits.

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There are little hairline die cracks coming from just about every letter in the legend, that is a pretty dramatic penny.

Nary a clue, 'tis?

Just PM the images to me, I will host and post.

Like Chris says, there are a hardcore group of collectors like even myself that like the contemporary forgeries a lot more than the genuine mint articles. Think about it, for instance I have a counterfeit coin from the reign of Mary Queen of Scots, you have to realise that the penalty even for possession of such a thing, let alone passing it unwittingly and most of all making it in the first place was simple - death. It was not a lot different in England either. Even coppers were counterfeited, but usually not given the stiffest penalty, but silver was an automatic ticket to the gallows or whatever else at hand. For that reason counterfeits, and because of the great re-coinages in Britain at the beginning of the 18th century are now quite scarce. They got much more common after the 1780's, better equipment, better economy, great coin shortage and more lax interpretation of the law.

At least it didn't sell, but the bidders in their mis-informed state will just bid again on something similarly AT'ed.

I think it is very likely something that happened when it got the rest of the colouring on it, looks like it spent sometime with some contaminant somewhere.

I love how this AT garbage gets tombed in plarstic and sold for egregious sums of cash. I think I am going to have to get my pennies out and start putting them up in the broiler for awhile.

At least I get my way, not like when I have discussions with the wife boss, then it is her way or the highway.

That said, I used to be a bit of an accumulator, slash hoarder too, which is why I literally have 6000+ predecimal coins lying around in linen bags. Back in the day that was cool, but as Hussulo notes, quality does mean more than quantity. And I wish I could find someone that wants all those darned British coins.

When you argue with yourself, you are always right, just a factor of which opin takes precedence

Yes, but they are fiendishly scarce, though I saw a beater piece on eBay recently. There were not very many issued in Scotland, it was one of the scarce times when Scotland actually had almost enough base coinage in circulation. I really want a token from Cornwall.

Dontcha hate having to argue with yourself over the ID of a coin?

I have seen a few in deplorable condition from Lowestoft.

One area I would not advise collecting in is 17th century English tokens. There are over 20.000 varieties currently believed to be in existence, far to many to ever have a complete collection. Besides they are ugly designs, not much to see on them, not a lot of variation. They have gotten right pricey of late also. That asunder, I have my 17th Century Tokens here, but please do not collect them, they are my domain, mine all mine 17th Century English Tokens Check out the last on the page, it is my current fave.