Chris Perkins

Unfortunatley I have no influence on where they put them....Or I'd have them in a pile by the till!

What a nice surprise, WHSmith have just ordered 1000 pre publication! This is important, as it'll mean that they get them on their shelves in time for Christmas, which I'm hoping will be a time when lots of them are sold. They didn't manage it last year, mainly because I didn't realise they need so much notice. They're funny WHSmith, you email them, write to them, phone them and you never seem to get anywhere. And then, out of the blue, an email order for 2,200 books (1000 CCGB2006 + 600 Roman Silver and 600 Banknotes 2006). So the Roman and Banknotes will also be on shelves for Christmas. So far, that's 1700 CCGB2006 sold pre publication! Because I was new, I had 0 pre publication orders last year.

Actually, it might be white again after all! Whichever, I'll surely have some with me.

The 2006 Coin Yearbook will be colour so I hear....If not this year, perhaps the year after it seems I'll have no choice but to follow suit.

Knew i'd read that name somewhere. The bust looks perfectly ok in proper 3d form doesn't it. Mr Nemon is not responsible for the awful coin, it's whoever decided to make a mini profile version of the perfectly respectable bust that's to blame!

Yes, same cover designer. She's done all of them up to now, and it means that it's cheaper as each design is similar, the same size, has the logo at the bottom etc. See you at the 'Cumberland' as it's called by the dealers (because it used to be in the Cumberland hotel).

The editor told me that they're working on a colour version, which is of course a huge task.

I'll use this area to let folks know about the progress on CCGB2006 if I may. So far, the cover is coming along. It's going to be a kind of turquise this year, as I'm fed up with white (like all 4 books do far). Hopefully that colour will compliment the 2 lovely copper pennies on the front. Cover should be done in a few days. The inside part I have expanded to over 15 pages extra (so far). This is mainly taken up by introductions to each coin type, which include the designer names and little snippets of information. I don't think I'll have a chance to do much with the decimal section, but I have expanded it to include all the Bank of England token varieties, and there are a few more/new images. So far, I have orders for 700 copies, which is a good start.

There are no initials, I think it would look better with initials, they'd break the monotony! The '53 and '60 reverses are actually pretty good and nothing like the Churchill. I doubt it was Fuller and Thomas. Maybe they just got a thick oil painting with high relief, cut out a circle of it and got the reducing machine to cut the die!

Yes, they're keeping a low profile aren't they! I bet it was from a bust or a painting and probably just miniaturised by a mint employee.

http://www.awardmedals.com/award/churchill.htm It actually looks better with shoulders doesn't it. I don't think i'd want to spend £200 on it though! By the way, does anyone know who designed the Churchill head on the Crown? It looks like it might be based on an oil painting....I'd like to put details in CCGB2006.

All the farthings being offered by that seller are a bit dodgy if you ask me. And they're in Bexleyheath, which is where I once lived (or near by at least). I had a girlfriend in Bexleyheath and I worked there too for a while. Didn't notice much of an Italian population when I was there :s

Yes, please do send pictures to cp@predecimal.com Sounds like a gold plated and enamelled penny, which will be more old jewellery that coin.

What does it say on the coin, and how big is it? If the jpg is not too big it should be ok to attach to a post. Try renaming it to filename/jpg, instead of filename.jpeg. Perhaps the forum just likes 'jpg's.

You can't really say that for sure Nirguna, as there were lots of different companies producing commemorative medals, and even the official one was produced in different sizes. Until Kezzar gives more details and preferably a picture to judge the grade it could be worth anywhere between about £1 - £50.

He did infamously abdicate, but there were commemorative medals of all sorts released in the thousands. Stamps too, coins from African colonies, and who knows what else. If the seller is asking big money, assuming it's mega rare...Walk away, they're normally just worth a couple of quid. Ameteurs should be very careful with Edward VIII, especially with all the modern repro patterns floating around!

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)

I could possibly give you face value for them, I have a buyer for that kind of stuff. If interested, let me know some figures.

Looks a bit fishy to me. One of the hammered collectors/experts is sure to answer soon.

I doubt it, there'll probably still be hundreds of bags around in 300 years

Very crude and not very Romanesque. Definitely a fake I'd say, or something for tourists. What it's supposed to be is a commemorative coin of Augustus (the first Emperor). DIVUS means that he was dead, so theoretically it could have been struck last week, because he's been dead a while!

Yes, it appears on all messages. It was aimed at first at one person, but it didn't just happen once, and I do get annoyed when I waste time telling people about coins, even sometimes looking up information about coins that I would be interested to buy. Only to spot them on eBay with a pasted version of exactly what I wrote! You can imagine that's a little annoying. Doesn't really apply here, so you're more than welcome to put your bags on eBay.

This is an excerpt sent to me by a metal detectorist author: In 1983, when the one-pound coin began to circulate, the Mint produced 400,000,000. Tucked away on the inner pages of a Treasure Hunter issue for that year there's a report of the first lost 1983 one-pound coin turning up as a detector find. Who knows how many of those four hundred millions have slipped from pockets and purses, or down the backs of sofas, since then? What I can say is there's a fair chance that some are now worth .. well, considerably more than one pound will have to satisfy your curiosity for the present, because the collector who bought the specimen I'm referring to declined to say how much he paid for it. Presumably he hopes another might be offered. So please be on the look-out for a 1983 one-pound coin which has what I understand is termed a “coarsely grained†edge - in other words, with fewer vertical lines on its edge than most other one-pound coins. The explanation is thought to be that part of a die used to produce some of the foreign coins the Mint also makes was accidentally used to produce a batch of 1983 one-pounders. Anyone heard about this coarse £1 coin? Syl? Kuhli?

More of these! These bags of 1967/66 Pennies and halfpennies are really very common (although dated 1968, the coins will be 1967) and I get offered them all the time. It's seems people thought if they kept hold of a bag from the millions of other bags, that they might one day be worth more than face value! Well, they are, but not a lot more. I'd offer £10 per bag. The postage costs are then usually the next stumbling block!

Nothing really spectacular comes to mind. Lots of people have the odd coin worth £20 - £75 each, even without knowing it. Very few non collectors have coins worth big money, unless they have coins inherited by a collector, which is always dodgy, because frequently I have to basically tell the people that the coins their loved one collected are basically rubbish and that their values were all overestimated by the late collector!