Paddy

On a quick look I think your initial assessment is fair. You do have some silver amongst the pictures labelled Half Crown, Shillings, Tanners and Victorian, but most looks to be in the "melt value only category". Someone may pay a bit more for the 1910 Halfcrown, but nothing earth shattering. The notes are not my speciality, but mostly look too tatty to arouse much interest. The Military Shilling is first issue (c1946) and may interest a militaria person more than a note collector. Oops - forgot Foreign 5 is mostly silver, and the Rupee will sell reasonably well. Some of the other foreign coins are allso silver. The chesterfield kit bag token is intriguing!

We should have a "Groan" reaction for this section of the forum...

Most of those are no better than scrap metal and they are asking more than double that. No bid from me!

... half way between Wounded Knee and Kicked in the Crotch...

Amusingly, my father told this story to a couple in their 60s a few years back. At the punchline the wife laughed uproariously but the husband just looked puzzled. On questioning he admitted that he had no idea what a "Quickie" was!

With all this extra time on our hands, why not post some music to share? I came across a couple of CDs by Ozric Tentacles the other day - very interesting to me - somewhere between prog and trance! This Youtube will play you the music - sadly no video to go with it:

Not sure if this is a laugh or a cry, but the term "20 20 vision" will take on a whole new meaning after this year!

Forgive me if you have heard this one before: A man walks into a cafe, takes a seat at a table and starts reading the menu. After a few minutes the waitress approaches: "What will you have?" she asks. "I'll have a quickie," he replies confidently. She scowls and stomps off. After a few minutes she returns and demands: "Are you ready to order now?" "Yes - I'd like a quickie please," he replies. She thumps the table and storms off angrily. Soon the manager sends her back. "Ok - are you ready to make a sensible order now?" she says angrily. "May I please have a quickie?" he asks plaintively. "Right, I'm calling the police!" she shouts. At this point the man at the next table leans over helpfully and says: "I think you'll find that is pronounced "Quiche"!".

It's another smoking knee! Must be close to a "recognised variety" by now. 😉

The M1 and the A1 are in a bar having a drink when a stretch of red tarmac walks in. "Who is that?" asks the M1. "Oh, watch out for him - he's a real cycle path!" replies the A1.

I'm afraid my BS detector was set off very quickly by the Coin cabinet letter. Seems to me just to be a shameless attempt to turn people's fears into a selling opportunity. Remind's me of the Blair and Cameron spin days!

Here is mine - possibly even sharper on the reverse but with one or two irregularities around the edge:

To me looks genuine enough, just a bit over graded. I would give it VF - too much wear, particularly on the shield, for any more.

I find the squiggles rapidly give me a headache. If I really want to find out what they are I use zeno.ru - they have an enormous database of Asian coins already and have experts regularly there that can ID almost anything Indian or Oriental.

Read it out loud - each digit spoken separately...

1 1 was a racehorse 2 2 was 1 2 1 1 1 1 race 2 2 1 1 2

After all, you could buy nearly a whole penny for that much!

Is this the "smoking knee" variety? 🙂

With such a small picture it is difficult to see what is triggering your alarm bells? And can we see the other side?

I assume it is all the latest incarnation of "like" and "you know", and to me indicates a similar lack of literacy. Our modern education system seems to treat any attempt at good grammar or spelling as snobbishness. Is it only in this country that being badly educated, or at least giving that impression, is deemed something of which to be proud?

I must admit I find the tendency to start almost every sentence with "So..." rather annoying. If you watch Pointless on BBC 1 (as I do) you will see most of the younger contestants doing it all the time - even those with literary qualifications or occupations. For me it goes in the same category as "very unique" and "very real".

Help! I have been left with a huge collection of Coin related magazines and papers: Coin News - appears to be a complete date run from around 1995 to 2017, Phoenix coin newspaper - 3 bundles in the 2000s Old Coincraft lists in the early 2000s ...and probably some more. The guy who collected them has passed away and his partner was keen they should all go together to someone who would appreciate them. 3 Wine boxes and 4 carrier bags full! Free to anyone prepared to collect them or arrange shipping!

I might have to do that. The chap who gave them to me really wanted them to go as a group to a keen collector - for sentimental reasons I guess. But if the alternative is taking them all to the dump, I suppose he will just have to put up with them splitting. (If he ever needs to know!) So hereby - if there are particular issues of Coin News from around 1995 to 2017, or back issues of Phoenix or the Coincraft newsletter that people want, please let me know and I will see what I can do. It will require more effort from me so there will have to be a small charge plus postage to negotiate.

... Redacted - I promised I wouldn't get drawn into politics ...

You know me by now - I love bargain job lots! I picked up an album at an auction last week - mostly full of junk pre-decimal British coinage. (I bought mainly because the album was a good quality one, suitable for displaying better coins at market.) As well as reasonable 1953 and 1950 pennies in there (unspotted) was this 1860 in fairly decent condition. If I am reading @secret santa's website correctly this is F10, Obverse 2 reverse D, but actually the reverse is D* (with the heavy rockline above the LCW) and also has the sea not reaching the border to the left of the lighthouse. All in all a pleasing upgrade to my F10 with bonuses. Oh and it also shows the repaired A in Victoria...