Chris Perkins

Clearly a fake Dave, a 1999 coin would have a Scottish lion on it. The reverse is wrong for the date, and the edge lettering is awful. So the forgers were at work at least up to late 2000 (and no doubt still are of course)

Keep a perfect one if you can, but if there are any creases or folds, or any signs whatsoever of it not being a perfect flat sheet of newly printed banknote paper, then go get some new cash for it! If not perfect it won't be worth a lot more than for value for quite some time....And £50 is a lot of money.

You'd think vending machines would be properly set up to reject fakes (or perhaps they do, but they're just loaded with them in order to give them as change!) Let's see a picture of your Welsh Primary school £1 Dave. When you can.

Gold value i.e about £53.00 each. That's what I would pay, most dealers would try to get them for less than bullion value. I'd hope to sell them for £60 - £65 each after acquiring them for £53. Email if you want to sell them: cp@predecimal.com

When people send me collections that include a couple of Roman coins (as is sometimes the case) I simply identify them and put them in a chronological order with the rest. I have mostly base metal coins now, and probably about 20 different emperors covered, including a few slightly unusual Roman ladies, and a Nero coin! No real direction, I just happen to be in a position that means I accumulate the odd one here and there. i do enjoy idenifying them, and learning about the usually brutal history of the folk on them.

Yes, I spotted those too. I have them both more than once, but I like them!

Rob, If you want to wrap them securely and post them to me I will catalogue them carefully and make an offer based on bullion value or 60% of how I price them up (whichever is greater). The members here will vouch for my trustworthyness. Most of the coins you have are not very special, but a few are nicer for example the Maundy set and the Roman coins. I actually collect Roman coins, so I'll pay a bit more for those. Email me if you like: cp@predecimal.com

Which book? They stock the CCGB2005 and Roman Base. They are showing it as stocked on their website, but may not have them in every branch. I'm pretty sure I can get them to take the forthcoming banknote book too.

Roman Silver Coins - A Price Guide is now available at £5.95. The quality of this, the latest Rotographic title is very high. The cover is stiff, the pages are thicker and it's an all round better job (a new printer has been given the task this time). I'm off to Prague tomorrow, so will be putting the book on predecimal.com on Monday. It's already available to order on Amazon.co.uk (search on 'Roman Coins'). Or if you want one direct, please email cp@predecimal.com or post in this area.

No wonder it's so bloody rare if it's that difficult to spot!

No problemo

Collectors' Banknotes 2006 is now going to print! I'm pretty excited about this new book. It's the 4th I've published at the Rotographic helm, and it's the 2nd to be printed in super quality at the new printers. I'll make a PDF version available soon, and have already started selling off some of the banknotes used for the pictures. They are listed on ebay under the id: rotographic So, if any of you want banknotes, I pretty much have a complete type set available for sale, and I need to sell them to pay for the printing costs until the money starts coming in from the resellers.

I have 120 in storage over the road, and 40 here for retail customers. I'm sure I'll sell the 40 before the new edition, and I will probably sell the 120 too, but I don't mind if I have a few left over, I can just discount them.

Ok, Juan, I'll remember you in a couple of weeks and let you know.

I wouldn't say they were halfpenny numerals my friend, probably just a different date punch/die or even just different amounts of wear. The actual halfpenny numerals are actually much smaller (from the illustration in Freeman).

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Tell me about it! I could keep 3 people busy all day with what I try to do.

Some dealers pay full catalogue for rare coins if they know where they can sell it. Let's see a picture.

That's great, I'll have one of those please.

I don't think it's very likely that they reused old reverses after changing the dates on them. That happened in Victorian times, but I doubt quality control would have allowed it in the 70's/80's! But you never know, mistakes do happen.

For the early large 10p's. I'm not too bothered about slow changes, but I am interested if 2 different coins exist for the same date.

It looks suspiciously well rounded to me, which is wrong because seige pieces were usually struck in a hurry without much care (even the 'proper' coinage of that era was often awful). On a quick glance I'd say it's modern, but your pictures are not very good. Any chance of some sharper ones? They're a bit big too.

Yes, Mr Sealy said they are all rare (1992 20p's). I wonder if that 31 million number includes coins dated 1993......Very probably, so the 1992 number is perhaps much lower.

I didn't read it somewhere, I was told it by Mr DLF Sealy, President of the London Numismatic Society and friend of Mr Peck himself (Mr Sealy's name is mentioned in Peck here and there). Apparently there are two different head sizes on 1992, and the smaller is less sharply struck. One of them is rarer, but I can't remember which (probably the smaller)! I've sent Mr Sealy a letter recently, he may have other knowledge well worth extracting!

What's all this with girls! Coins come first always, even my girlfriend knows that by now