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Ratzie33

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  1. How deep dies the rabbit hole go? I guarantee Alice will never stop falling.
  2. I guess I could hire a criminal justice hacker to trace the IP address, what does the sentence in terms of prison time look like on felony hacking? Citizen’s justice is different from eternal, in that instance I believe Socrates was mistaken to drink the hemlock.
  3. If you’re thinking it was accidental to tag three people in a chained email your mistaken. That’s a pretty complicated mistake even for a busy pocket😝 again I only use eBay to send messages, I understand they go through email, however that would require me to open up my email and consciously add myself and one other suspected criminal hacker and thief of coins outside of eBay, without an EBay email address, on a completely separate occasion, then include a person from EBay with an EBay email address when I only use EBay to send user messages. Pretty tough to do.
  4. So here is a strange thing I found in my E-mail sent messages. I was under the impression that when you send messages on E-bay they are encrypted. Apparently not. This email was never composed by me but ended up in my sent messages. Whoever it is must be sophisticated at covering their tracks because they tagged me first. However the body of the message had no content. Strange, only to find out they tagged a user I was buying coins from on E-bay, in effect to track my conversation history to ascertain what I was buying and from who. I have ordered coins recently and received entirely different coins with different mint marks not just appearances. Frustrating that you put in the time, effort, knowledge, and research, only to have it ripped from you in a devious way. I feel sorry for you I’m not even mad. And whatever you believe I believe we pay eternity for our mistakes intentionally committed without remorse. At what degree does soul burn?
  5. There are three abnormal s shaped curves beneath the right eagle wing feathers.
  6. Looks like there are little lines of vapor emanating from the mug... could it have been tea?
  7. How often do you look at the reverse of a coin? I mean even as collectors when we go through a roll of pennies many of us rarely look at the back, the obverse is what it’s all about. What if Brasher paraded a 25centimes coin obverse with a satyrical reverse.
  8. I’m going to take another view on this for a second. Again suggesting it as a satyrical token coin. Tobacco was actually dried and spun into long rolls of rope resembling the one beneath the barrel during the cultivation process in Jamestown. Tobacco was prized in England. The English could not grow tobacco in England because of intemperate conditions and so were forced to import it from America. Again just an opinion but why is there a roll underneath the barrel? Could be a large pressed tobacco roll, the eagle over the barrel representing abundance of the item, and the claws into the barrel suggesting ownership of product; Whilst the eagle urinated on the 8 ounce cup of tea suggesting: “ off we don’t need, and have what you want”
  9. Something kind of funny could be a die crack but also could go along with Brasher’s devious predilection for counterfeiting, appears as if the eagle is sticking its tongue out at, and actually urinating on the mug.
  10. You can use the judgement of your own eye to correct my rudimentary drawing.
  11. Ephraim Brasher copied more than one French coin.
  12. Which in turn England most likely borrowed influence from Russia
  13. Motifs are commonly usurped. For example the similarities of the leaf design, and the ribbon at the bottom of the wreath.
  14. Now let’s look at the 2. No sharp cut into the lower level line. A more natural human intentioned belly, a fatter top curve, and the overall height and width of the numeral are much larger. As the French coins were minted much later it is possible they copied this design fraternizing in a pub. There are many repeating patterns in coinage history between countries like the leaf wreath used on the early half vents was copied from early British coinage, and the lady liberty on the reverse of the 1783 Washington cents are eerily similar to the heroine on the reverse of Early British pennies.
  15. The shape of the flowers have a curved diamond pattern touching the edge in the circle center, but as for the French coin they cone to points facing away from the center of the flower.
  16. Size and shape comparison: I took the French coin picture much closer to be as fair as possible. As you can see the possible Brasher coin numerals are much larger and closer together.
  17. Now let’s look at the 2. No sharp cut into the lower level line. A more natural human intentioned belly, a fatter top curve, and the overall height and width of the numeral are much larger.
  18. The 2 is smoother and more elegant in its curvature and displays no upward tail. The 5 has a large belly in it pointing to hand cutting. It also comes to a point at the end of the middle curve. Look at how round the numerals are in their texture as opposed to the flat machine stamped French coins. Look at the top of the five it is less razor curved and certainly appears to be hand cut sloping downward at an angle as opposed to standing at attention straight in the French coin.
  19. The 2 is smoother and more elegant in its curvature and displays no upward tail.