Chris Perkins

Dr Sriro will know, Email him, tell him I sent you, and ask if he wouldn't mind looking at the pictures you have: gsriro @ adelphia.net (remove the spaces either side of @ first)

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He was 61 and the cause of death was a thrombosis.

Forumees, It is with great sadness that I anounce the loss of a fellow British Coin website proprietor and distinguished expert in his field. Colin Cooke passed away in hospital on Thursday 21st April. In his memory, and to show my gratitude for the help and information that he provided for CCGB2005, I shall be dedicating the 2006 edition to him. His website will continue as normal, run by his experienced staff members.

I'll shortly be getting in contact with Roger Keenan (via telephone I hasten to add, I'm not as good as he is on the austral plane!) and maybe I'll ask him if At-Hlan wants to dictate something else, or if they'll both consider a re-print of 'The Voice of At-Hlan'. There is a big audience for spiritual other worldly kind of books at the moment isn't there!

I don't think I'd call that a strong EF, and the toning is yuk. Leave it well alone at £49 I'd say!!

I don't know, how long's a piece of string? (you need to be more specific, most are very common and not that expensive. Modern copies are all over the place at the moment, and contemporary coronation commemoratives are also common)

Resend the list please, to cp@predecimal.com (if you sent to predecimalcoins, that isn't me).

No I didn't. Are you sure it's the same Cosmi?

Ah, it's shaky but it works now.

Yes I know, but that doesn't always mean that they will be www.companyname.com.... And I was too lazy to try different top level doms, .co.uk .com etc www.cosmi.com doesn't seem to work actually.

What site?

Very good idea, and so logical. Someone post a list of main UK coin show dates and I'll see what I can do.

Who is the maker of this software?

Expensive because they're nice coins, or expensive because they're unrealistically overpriced, and you haven't got a clue how to grade them? Please do send me a list, to cp@predecimal.com Thanks,

it's Irish, James II, probably a halfpenny depending on size and type. The date is something other than 1616 though.

Caroline, You'll have to be quite a bit more specific than just providing a list of Kings and dates! We'll need metal type and sizes in mm. Design details will also help. The four generations of the Royal Family coin is a commemorative medal, not collectable unless in mint condition, and they aren't usually.

Simulcast, that's a new word for me! Yes, they do. The link is the BBC banner on the main page. I don't know when the next programme will be.

Peck is great for varieties, but probably not that useful on the radio when people phone with usually modern rubbish, or gold. I do frequently direct people to Predecimal. The DJ lets me be quite liberal with ads.

No doubt he's probably more right wing than even Oli, but just because he was in the Hitler Youth doesn't mean he was a Nazi. I'm sure that at the time of the Hitler youth, lots of kids just ended up there for something to do, or were made to go by their parents. A bit like Cub-Scouts now, although they don't yet have a badge for facism! If he's 78 he could have just about been able to fight in WWII too.

Maybe if enough people got together and told the BBC how they would like to hear that kind of thing in their local area, they'd consider making me national! It is live. I have with me a Krause 1801-1901, Krause 1901-2004, A Spink 2005, and my own 2 published books.

The last 4 progs I've been doing with my dad (it gets him out of the house). He knows a thing or 2 about medals, so we both sit there with the DJ and take calls on coins and medals. The last one, there were about 40% more calls on coins than medals, although I think dad got more the time before. There is plenty of rubbish, and I have to try not to get to annoyed at the callers, especially when it's the 2nd 1977 Crown call of the day! Lots of people call with gold coins, and they always have a value of course, so a lot of the time I quote bullion, and most people are pleased with that. There is the odd weird thing though, and I often get the opportunity to flex a little numismatic muscle and impress the DJ, caller and listeners with what I know Dads calls are supposed to be about campaign medals, but people just don't listen do they, and he even gets calls on school attendance medals and other very un related material! We always get more than enough callers, email and texts to last longer than the programme, and we frequently end up doing it until the DJ goes home.

Good thinking Batman, I'll move it.

The latin legend on the Britannia side is perfectly normal, the reason you have seen them with REG is because they also exist with REG(INA), due to the fact that not only Kings (ie REX) appeared on fractional farthings. The Latin legend says: Britain: King, Defender of the Faith. No idea about the weird lombardic looking side. It's not really a great picture. There are plenty of so called Coin Dealers in the UK, that really don't seem to have a grasp of coins at all. You'll find them mostly in shops that also sell antiques and other collectables. The chances are, these people will be of little use. You could send it to the Royal Mint in Wales, and you will get it back, but expect it to take up to a year! I have a very knowledgable friend in Kent, and when in the UK I'm generally in Kent too. British Musuem would be fine I suspect, but you'd need to make sure you saw the specialist. Post in here when there is a chance it will get to England, I'd like to see it, just so I can say 'I told you so' and then gloat around the place!

Well, I see no reason to not still believe my first 'diagnosis' i.e. that it's a third farthing which has been hollowed, retaining a rim and that somehow 2 coins have been joined together. I've seen lots of coins joined that way, and it done properly it can be very difficult to detect. Stranger things have happened and I suppose it is possible that a mint worker was mucking around with some other 'foreign' die and created what you have, but the former is far more likely. If you can access it, I suppose you wouldn't really want to send it in the post. So, I suspect there is little chance I will be able to see it. In the unlikely event that it is a real single coin with a third farthing reverse and a strange 2nd reverse then it will be of interest, and the value would depend on who was willing to pay the most....Which might not be as much as you think.