Chris Perkins

The answer is almost certainly not a lot. All are common dates, and if in avergae circulated you may as well give them to charity. There's a little silver there, but nothing to write home about. There is a rarer lower tide reverse for the 1902 penny, but even that in low/average grade is not very special. Condition is the key, and collectors want them as near as possible to perfect!

Always good to hear. They must get them either from Barrington Smith in Leeds, or Vera Trinder in London. They both sell to collecting related shops.

I've got the books! 1500 copies to me in Germany first. The rest will go to a warehouse in England. They look good, but annoyingly, the cover is still not as thick as I would have liked due to the printers using a new laminating firm. Still, the quality is much better than the last edition.

Is that even for coins over 100 years old? I suppose that also means that when you buy or sell a coin within the UK, that the price includes 5% VAT. That's interesting info to put in the 2007 CCGB actually!

Did you! Where did you get it from?

Yes, I'll certainly have some with me then. Good idea.

I'm getting Collectors' Coins GB 2006 together at the moment, as most of you will know. Obviously, lots of the coins will probably stay at the same value as they were last year, especially the later ones and the most common types... What have you noticed has increased in value over the past year, perhaps a bit more than other areas? And, what's at the same level as it was last year? Anything cheaper now than a year ago? I'd love to hear you the general market impression from you collectors in your various fields so that I can use the data to help with the book. (remember that the book only covers from 1797 to now)

Ssteve, my very good gay friend!!! What the &*%! are you doing in here?!! You'll have to change your name now you've got rid of your Ssanyong. I'm in the UK for the radio prog and a coin fair 31st Oct - 7th Nov.....You got room on your Rochester farm residence for me between those dates? I was going to text, so this'll save me about 40 cents! I haven't forgotten I owe Mark £20 (even if he has).

And even high value items too....The UK customs are far far more lax than some other countries. From experience, the German 'Zoll' are all gits!

Gadget has contacted me for his free book. When he tries to write more sensibly without abusing people, he almost gets away with it. He lives in a town in Northamptonshire, with slightly higher than the English average crime levels, but nothing too chavvy as far as I can make out. He seems to genuinely be into coins and gleefully told me that his oldest coin is a 1699 farthing. Like me, he's in his 20's. Well done Gadget.

He was on telly in Germany too, in the same programme metioned elsewhere and dubbed in German of course!

That's very kind of you JMD, how humbled I feel.

Could contact the winning bidder.

Plenty of people buy them at this time of year and admit freely that a Christmas pud is where they'll end up.

A reference to the 'Great' Reform bill becoming law at about that time? I don't know.

There is actually a Doctor of coins in Switzerland. He did some special PhD and his thesis was no doubt on something coin related. He's the only Dr of coins as far as I know, and I wasn't aware of any Professors.

Gadget, do you have a permenant address, if so what is it (email it to me)? Someone from the forum has paid for you to receive a copy of Collectors' Coins GB 2006 in an attempt to reform you!

1. The hole could have been added later. 2. ROMA is the latin word for Rome 3. There wasn't a Queen, that's the Emperor. Some professor of coins you must be! The tell tale signs are usually always the style and the quality. The coin in the image lacks both.

They don't want them! They have plenty of history in their own coins. It was on TV!

Late last night (in Germany) there was a program on about coin clipping in 16th Century England! It showed lots of Royal Mint machinery striking coins nowadays etc, and there was also an interview with moneyer Dave Greenhalgh, who is a member of this forum somewhere, but has never posted! And it talked about how the edges were milled and lettering was added to beat the clipper. It showed a man with a single machine striking £5 gold proofs. They are hit 4 times by the die and the head side is face down. It was dubbed in German, but I expect it was some kind of documentary shown in the UK first.

I don't know, i'm willing to listen to see if gadget has something sensible to say. Perhaps he/she isn't all that bad. Probably just does it for attention and can really speak/write very well. He/she may even grow up to be Conservative MP for Statford upon Avon or something. 50 years ago many people would have thought and said the same thing about black people or gays, or jews. And since then, those bigotted views have proved unfounded. Surely everyone has a right to live in society (unless they steal anything of mine!!) Chavs have rights too you know, and perhaps a chav with an inquizitive mind is not such a bad thing, maybe he was just brought up wrong.

Was that you that made me pay silly money for that blurry piece of *&?! You know, if buyers actually got together and came to some agreement to stop them outbidding each other, we'd all get things far cheaper! At the moment there are a few people that I talk to about certain coins that appear on ebay, and we have agreed to discuss what we want and to leave the way clear. Perhaps you could join the co-operative: cp@predecimal.com

Isn't it sheeps intestines with some kind of meat inside. As an Englander, I have no idea. Out of the 27 years of my life, I've only been north of the border for about 3 hours of it.

Dominus Noster (our Lord) is the DN. SISC is for Siscia mint (In Greece I think). Just because you can't find a picture probably isn't anything remarkable. They minted the same types at different mints usually.

Yes, and now you can buy my book: http://www.predecimal.com/books/bookshop.htm