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 Posted 12/11/2016  3:12 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add allthatglitters to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello people, and am I glad to have found this forum. I couldn't wait to get my email link to complete registration. Mega post warning coming up :-D ..

To start with, the meme part. I'm actually a biker to the bone, yes all of them, including the multitude of the ones Ive broken, DOH! . I have a few passions in life, but as I got old somewhere along the road, I have had to do a swaperoo with which one I favor most. I build my own bikes and trikes from scratch as a hobby, sort of show winning things , but I gave showing up, as people can be treacherous when a prize is concerned ;-), and I am not a competitive man.

So my number one love of life has been building my own vehicles, and generally going fast, one could say to fast , but as it never killed me , ill settle for just fast. Age and pain have forced me, to take my number two hobby/passion, and make it my number one: which is playing and collecting rare guitars.

and I can talk some too ahy ?

So , me= Guitars first, motorized, noisy and fast vehicles second, and my polydactyl cats third. I have the cats 24/7 so they arn't a hobby but a joy to own , and amazing with all those toes.

OKOK, down to business, and why I am here.

Primarily I joined, to get an answer to a question , that so far has remained unanswered.Several coins have come into my hands, and I bought them for scrap value only. However, I thought it wise to check up exactly what I had bought: I already knew they were half sovereigns.

So I have been searching and searching , for just a simple answer, and it is not value! I will have to find the correct slot to make a new post, and see if anyone can help me there. Here is a hint, I have 2 half sovereigns , that supposedly do not exist? I know these coins are genuine, that is probably indisputable, as came from a now closed down bullion and historic coin seller.

It has been rather a brain burster , not being able to identify such a simple thing as a coin. Who knows , maybe this will start the coin collector obsession mode in me :-O . I am an obsessive type, never stop once started<<< just like talking ;-).

I don't have a camera with macro at present , but when I make the next post , I will include photographic proof of what I have . Incidentally both these coins have no mint mark? I am also guessing that means London.

I have not said what I have said here , to generate an answer. This is a hello and here I am from me. I am a chaotic person and a tad hyper at times, but I have a mine of information in my head, on most subjects and topics.

lol should I go on. My what I do list and my interests are very wide ranging, music to chemistry, mechanics to sciences , engineering to designing.I like to be able to do anything that I see interests me. I might not be a virtuoso in everything , but I get by with anything.

Greetings too you all

Regards Zac Frae Scotland :-)
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 Posted 12/11/2016  3:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Spence to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Wow. We welcome all comers--including the high energy kind! Post pics of those coins over in the UK section of CCF and hopefully they can get you some answers.
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 Posted 12/11/2016  3:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Nevol to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
to CCF! but in the meantime you could check out this site:
http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/coins.html#index

Also remember that half sovs were minted and used in Australia. Minted from 1852 - 1918, they were slightly different to the UK ones.
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I enjoyed your introduction!
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 Posted 12/11/2016  5:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add allthatglitters to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I am completely confused, as to where to post about these coins? . Would you be so kind as to direct me towards the page for UK coin comments please. This is a fairly technical site , with a profusion of options, and I don't have a clue where to start.

Oh << I have also made a boboo of magnitude, ( oddly confused faced smiley here ) I , who knows nothing, ( slaps head smiley here ) seem to have made a slight, erm miss identification error arrrr< pirate esque .

Thank you for your friendly welcomes :-). I hope I need to come here often ;-) heheheh. the umm high energy is just psychological these days, and I do admit to going overboard before the boats even hit an ice berg :-S< so too speak.

Just so I can clarify, ( embarrassed smiley here )there is still , a sort of an up , to what now appears to be a down, ( grumpily rumblings from throat noises ). There just isn't an easy way to say this , and run away and hide, ( so to speak ) lol.

I thought half sovereigns came in two sizes hehehhe you know , 19mm and 22mm. Hmmmmm, so my coins are 22mm, so I am guessing they are full sovereigns, and not a half. I don't have a camera that won't flash in this house , and all that will show is a gold blur. But I have a friend on way over now , I will see if they can photo them for me , and email the pictures to me.

I am quite chatty :-), its my nature, and would class myself as a handy guy to know. But don't rely upon me to identify a coin for you :-) arrrrr. could you assist please with letting me know , where would be the best place for me to post a subject relating to this coin fiasco, I seem to have created for myself ;-). chaos and me , seem to walk a close path in life; they do say , the path to heck is paved with good intentions :-).

^^^ I can be very trying :-D .

Thanks again for the warm friendly welcome.

Regards Zac,, alias: allthatglitters << isn't even what I thought it was :-D At least I got the gold bit right ;-)

P.S. I see an auto re type, I suppose the road to heck works the same
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 Posted 12/11/2016  8:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Nevol to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
To start with let's assume they are UK coins so place your images here:

http://goccf.com/f/36

The topic can be moved if necessary once the coins are positively ID'd.

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 Posted 12/11/2016  9:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add allthatglitters to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the link. I will try get photographs in day light, as it might stop the flash on the camera. So will try get a post put up tomorrow, to see if anyone can tell me exactly what I have.

Thank you again.

Regards Zac ..
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 Posted 12/12/2016  12:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add SilverDon to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
and my polydactyl cats third


I have a polydactyl cat named Thumbs, he has extra.

Ernest Hemmingway in Key West collected polydactyl cats,
made money available after he died for their care, small
cat graveyard in the back of his house. They were supposed
to be lucky. Very common in Port Towns. Ships with cats
stopped by and the cats procreated.

http://hemingwayhome.com/cats/

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 Posted 12/12/2016  8:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add allthatglitters to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
lol yes, the mum cat has 5 per paw, but her 2 babies have 7 on the fronts and 6 on the backs. It would seem in the 16th century ships captains favored polydactyl cats, they made better mousers, as can climb ropes and were classed as Lucky. I guess anything remotely lucky, would have been a good thing to have on a wooden ocean going ship of yonder year.

This is how they seem to have got to America, where they are also referred to as Boston Bobbies.

Going back to these four coins, I will make a post on them , as soon as I can get a decent photo of them all. I hadn't thought of the photo side of things :-S. A decent photo will be a good way to zoom on the coins to look for mint marks etc too. So I will follow the above link given to me, as soon as I can show what I have.

Thanks again

Regards Zac ..

P.S.
I also took on a polydactyl cat A: because I need all the luck I can get, don't we all ;-). B: I had wanted one for 30+ years, but didn't know what they were called, or where to get one. << Oddly enough in life, I have ended up in a remote Scottish village, ( with three of them ) where polydactyl cats are reputed to have originated. Life seems to be a game of coincidences and chance opportunities, that some times you can identify, and some times you don't << but later learn of your costly mistake. We all live and learn :-) .

Here is " mooncat " the baby of the family , with paws like boxing gloves

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to CCF!

We have a small cat thread running here: http://goccf.com/t/274565
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Look at the mits on that kittie. Big ole paws.
Awesome, it seems that there are many in the Boston
and Halifax - Nova Scotia areas, as they are great
port towns it makes sense. Scotland to New Scotland.

http://www.halifaxveterinaryhospita...h-extra-toes

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