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    One of my neighbours asked me to list one of these £2 coins with the lettering upside down, I listed it for him for a week and no one at all was interested. I suppose as they go into the edgeding shoot some do flip over I don't think the machine is able reconcile the problem I suppose when you are churning out millions and no human in sight for 1/2 mile of conveyor belt it is hardly surprising this happens. even when the designs could be beautiful they just look rubbish , flat, miserable, uninspiring full of errors, and people become disinterested. I am sure they will soon do themselves out of a job or perhaps they might release old designs. Oh God! I sound like an old man
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    I tell you though these new £1 are so covered with the most awful flaws , metal running all over the place across the portrait and around the edges they are an embarrassment really perhaps some of the most terrible examples of British coining I have seen. Although I would argue there is a purpose behind these lines .....and marks LOL
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    Pennies & Halfpennies Listed on Ebay

    DrLarry replied to Bronze & Copper Collector's topic in Items For Sale

    well it is just I am so used to seeing half cocked things nothing really clear and we have had the discussion before that the P could be a P or that it might be a metal flow on a damaged die or in fact it might be any of the above. Although there is often strange "scaring" at a diagonal which I seemed to find over and over again and had thought that the error was R rather than P....but I often see things that are not there
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    Pennies & Halfpennies Listed on Ebay

    DrLarry replied to Bronze & Copper Collector's topic in Items For Sale

    that is the clearest HALP I have seen well done for the images .....
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    I would think as a young friend told me last week that if true it would all be rather niche....this way the "madness" viewing the world so differently at least has a broader spectrum of interest...even I find it more interesting but at the same time when one has the ability to observe ones "other world" and see it with such clarity I am sure the real test of sanity will be how I deal with...at the moment is is a little strange. But I also find the intriguing way I see coins to suddenly to have so much more beauty and are less mundane to me and as I have said in this troubling world of division the lion and lambs are quite comforting
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    Without investing a lot I have it in some overseas coinage but I try not to look too much ...but then I am as nutty as a fruit loaf ...with nuts !!! I had this theory that seemed to make sense at the time that a lot of this was mixed up with the rise of the heraldic orders during the 11th to 13th C culminating in colleges of arms. I tried to make sense of many of the forms by seeing the emblems as abstract forms of the sequences I was finding. so for example the lion is obvious, but the lion with the tongue seemed always to be associated with a negative space that resembled another creature "a lamb" ....Part of the way I saw or see things uses the unremarkable spaces in between i.e negative space. If you look t these spaces (a skill that would be common for an engraver who had reverse perception in design) then they do appear to be much more significant. The issue was that if you only look at the obvious design space i.e the lion that is all you ever see. When I looked at emblems like the Fleur de lys I began to see subtle variation in the design same with subtle variations in lambs each of which when viewed from an alternative perspective could quite easily become something very different ...usually some modification on the lion lamb sequences. I just see a different world one in which I seem to be alone, but this is often the case with any type of neurological issue I suppose (no offence intended). What I was seeking was an order in the apparent chaos and by assigning these complex patterns a place in historical context and within the secrets of the guilds I gave them a sense of reality (in my mind)....it will be an interesting book on brain function if nothing else! of course the moment you see eyes the brain can compute all the things around it to suddenly make sense of the world
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    1787 Shilling & 1797 Penny

    DrLarry replied to Madness's topic in Wanted

    yeah there is no hurry and of course this is only an option I am not saying you will like what I list but I will pick one or two out and I will post them up on here for you. I prefer to put them on charity site then at least the money goes direct into their account I sell a lot of my own then gift aid the money back ...they dont pay ebay or paypal fees so it makes it safer for all concerned that way.... If I can't make something out of this obsession then I have done something wrong and to be honest it is more about selling things than keeping things.
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    1787 Shilling & 1797 Penny

    DrLarry replied to Madness's topic in Wanted

    I am going to start selling more of my collection for the charity on ebay. I try to raise about £1000 a month for them and I am sure I can take a look and show you some I am going to start listing them on the madaboutartcharity ebay site but happy f you are interested you let me know give me a day or two and I will load up a load of coins. I have far too many of the things and the need is greater than my own and if there really are no lions and Lambs then ...well time to start selling. One of the kids lost his father n October, then brother went to the bush and died of a botched circumcision now last night his mother died .... so I am wanting to raise money for his education costs and enable one of the MADmums to foster him. I detest orphanages and I have to admit that little Ase was always one of my favourites. I make the public statement now that I want to back and make my little contribution. Certainly I have a 2 pence and a one penny you might like I have a half guinea too which I am happy to donate ....this terrible news has galvanised me into action
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    Ebay's Worst Offerings

    DrLarry replied to kuhli's topic in Free for all

    here is my candidate for something really quite terrible https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Very-bad-condition-only-one-side-viewable/113182323855
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    The geometry is similar in many of the forms if you use triangle tessellation a lions head can very easily become a dragon, or stag I'm not sure if I have an image
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    yes I agree I am not sure what trials they put the sequence through with the children in the autistic society I remember them saying that it had been prepared with the support groups involvement but as you say these things can give us a snap shot of understanding
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    yes although I have to admit even for me I found this vigo sixpence quite convincing with each angle showing a different sequence
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    yes indeed and I am sure you have pointed it out to your significant other I hope it sings a good song .....perhaps a wren ...careful you dont start seeing wrens on coins !!!
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    I dont think it was an over-reaction I think if you are in the middle of something then you become more keenly aware of the impact it has on the child's life and the parents and family. There is an incredible new resource I heard of recently available from the autistic society it is a 3D download you add to your phone and you have to wear those funny techno glasses that allow the phone to sit in and it gives a 3D visual and sound perspective of how an autistic child experiences a shopping centre. I think the more resources like that around that give us insight the greater our ability to see the world from more than one single position
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    None of us has the exact definition or fully understand the full extent of the problem the point to bother about is that you have at least given an alternative contribution and that in itself is important . One can only learn by trial and error what is right and what is wrong.
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    the spectrum is broad and it's manifestations very variable I know a number of autistic kids with dyspraxia, sauvents, who do not always suffer the same overwhelming sensory overload. It is the definition which the fault here in that some have and some do not have these upsetting characteristics for you and your nephew, I think when searching for mental health descriptions so many are in the dark.
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    When I started it was the extand design that kept giving me the pattern sequence, it was only really a desire to understand why so many things all over the place seemed to have eyes ...I suppose eyes are at least common to humans and animals so I dint completely drift off into the land of OZ. When I saw a similar pattern in the new coded windows of the new £1 coin showing the same scatter of a pattern broken by a sequence of "slats" which merge into a form I thought I had it . the patterns seemed the same to me whether looking at the extant design as in this 1831 penny Or when I looked at the sweet little Vigo sixpence it seemed all a matter of just angling the camera in the right direction using negative light and the form would come through ....I proposed the blank planchet idea simply because if the whole of the coin face were etched when the die struck the coin the design elements of my pattern would flow around and over the design elements and hence when something similar in the "extant design" picked out the form then the image would be re enforced . It made obvious sense that if you viewed a series of broken pattern at such an angle to allow the "fragments" to merge (the etched design) they were easily observable. Only rarely did a form like the lion Peckris saw and the obvious one in the Vigo sixpence
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    and I wonder why you all give me such a hard time
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    True I just wish they wouldn't have eyes and tongues LOL
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    Green Pennies, half pennies Victoria

    DrLarry replied to DrLarry's topic in Free for all

    thanks yes of course I am in no rush
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    yes I think you may be right, As I posted a while ago on my own thread, I believe that the too close attention to detail ay have created my own neurological disorder as I was in that fluid zone coming out of chemo haze. It does seem to have re-wired that part of my brain that recognises facial pattern but in my case bloody lions and lambs....such a strange theme to have decided upon although I am sure it made sense at the time .....I blame the Lydians for those first coins!!!!!!!!!
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    no the genie can get back in the bottle. I invoke myself LOL
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    But at the end of the day it has taken me on a journey and in it's own silly way I saw elements of the design of coins as part of a journey too. In so doing I crossed history and time looked and bought coins and books I would have never dreamed I would own ad taking hundreds of thousands of images which I think now are so beautiful in context to this strange story that I will soon begin to paint them. When I look into them I see something very comforting and I see something very beautiful so perhaps others will see that too. We all go mad in our own unique way this is likely to be my life's work now I will start at the beginning and end up with this ugly modern stuff. LOL
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