Chris Perkins

I'm sure they do, if Dolf Lundgren is anything to go by! (is he Ukrainian?)

Yes, hello krasnaya

Impressive Geoff. So much fun and knowledge in one place, how can this be?!

Or even what about all the counties! That would be like having Conder tokens again, but probably too expensive to do coins from each county with a different design. The Pound coin of course is already something similar, with a difference reverse each year. Bridges now, but of course previously: Scotland, Wales, England, NI and the whole UK. Don't forget that America is much larger that the UK JMD.

I'd have a feeling that in that condition it would probably be worth very little. Although it was made during German occupancy, which is interesting. I wonder if the national Netherlands bank will exchange it for Euro?? (It's probably too old)

What wonderful dedication to be posting from across the pond, and with real numismatic related stories too. Salt of the earth you are, Geordie. Waaaay Ayyyy man, I bet they have a real problem understanding you over there.

That is without a doubt, the funniest thing you've ever said JMD. I am well impressed with you, young man!

Is your name really Horace Morris? I don't think i've ever known anyone with rhyming names.

Russian you mean?

Yes just about. You?

I'll take a bow. Yes, it does seem that way, certainly the most popular British coin forum.

Morocco, date is in arabic. It's very modern, French colonial, actually 1933AD in Christian dating. Worth about £10 in mint condition, just £1 or so if it's less than perfect.

http://www.predecimal.com/british_gold_coins.htm for size info. I can supply capsules for it, but they just come in 10's. 16 or 16.5mm should be big enough. It'll be worth more or less bullion value unless in mint condition, in which case probably a few pounds more.

It sounds like you're all over the place Anthony. Here are some tips: Think about what you want your website to contain, think about the URL, the webspace, plan things, perhaps on paper first, then launch something. Importantly too; learn about how to promote websites, keywords, search engine optimisation etc. You cannot simply create a website one day with no idea about the direction or the niche. To be a serious coin dealer you need to provide a website that coin collectors will find useful and want to re-visit. It doesn't necessarily need to contain many coins for sale, but it really needs to be well thought up, and have a direction. Yours doesn't, and it should never even have left your head until it did. The few people that visit your website in the early stages are among the most important....Any first time visitor is the most important type, because you want them to keep coming back. After about 100 visits, you've changed the domain name, so now the people that had taken the time to visit you will never find you again unless they read this thread....If I was one of them I wouldn't bother coming back! Any decent hosting package should include in depth statistics without the need for a pop up generating counter. To do it seriously you have to outlay money and be prepared to learn a lot. If you want to start any business you really cannot do things by half, you have to give it your all. The website contains broken links, you don't want any of those, get rid of them. The price structure is not clear (as previously mentioned), and I really don't mean to be rude, but your grammar and spelling is awful (as we have previously discussed). If you type too fast that's ok in an email, and even in a forum (to a degree), but on a published web page there is absolutely no excuse. You need to check things through before you save the page. Errors should never get to be seen by the visitors if you can avoid it. If you don't know how to puctuate very well, or spell properly, I would suggest that the most important step, before you even try to sell any coins, would be to learn. Use free info from websites, or do an English GCSE evening class. Whatever that costs it will be an asset for your whole life and will help people take you and everything you write more seriously. It isn't easy at first. In fact it's bloody difficult to build a popular website on anything. And you have a very long road ahead before you can give up your day job!

I think you'll find that Anthony has listed every single coin, but just has prices where he has a coin available.

And there is a George VI Canadian Nickel which is a very similar sized coin with 12 (I think) sides, and it's a very bright silver colour, so make sure it isn't one of those.

For search engine rankings, a .co.uk website hosted on a server that doesn't paste pop ups all over the place, would be much better. Not to mention better for the visitors.

Yes, I have selected Kuhli, who is an experienced collector and has all the right books. Sorry Mitch. I'll close this topic now.

I have such a backlog of emails, most of it is from people offering me a load of rubbish. It's only polite to reply of course, but even writing the odd paragraph here and there seems to take up most of the day at the moment. So, I was wondering if any of you keen young folk (or older folk) would be able to help out? I plan to set up a yourname@predecimal.com email address and give it to the lucky applicant. What I'll then do is put that email address in the 'Buying Coins area' and also make it the destination of some of the web forms on predecimal.com Your job will be to reply to people thanking them for their message, and usually to ask them for more details...Dates, pictures, lists etc. When you know exactly what the emailer has, you can email me a list, or forward the email with the list etc. After a very short while, you'll get to know exactly what most people seem to have, what most people think has value, and usually that's the kind of stuff I don't want! Hopefully, you'll be able to filter off the churchill crowns, 1977 Jubilee crowns and other rubbish before it gets to me. This task will involve trust, because I'll need to be confident that you don't turn people down with Una and the Lion Proof sets and the like! The volume of emails should not be more than 20 a week at the very most, in fact it's not the numbers that are a problem, it's the time involved finding out exactly what people have that eats into my day so much...Only to find out it's scrap metal. As for payment, well, if we manage to buy anything I'll certainly give a comission depending on what it is, and I'll also do you plenty of favours on predecimal.com coins, accessories and books. I think it would perhaps suit a young person more, as it really should be a good learning experience. And who knows, in the future you could end up having a much more official role within the growing Predecimal.com empire! Any thought, or applicants, talk in here please.

Absolutely, yes what a fabulous idea. I have been impressed by the knowledge you have demonstated here Kuhli. You do seem to have the right books and you certainly know how to use them! email me to tell me what email address (anything@predecimal.com) you would like. And I'll set it up and then start directing the questions to you. I look forward to working with you.

That's ok Oli, no problem.

Does it have a 3.5 or 2.5mm Headphone jack?

There are a high proportion in the South East, no doubt about that. The next time I go to Kent I want to get some mates together and change all the road signs that point to Chatham, to read 'Chavham' But that would probably make me a chav.....We'll do it in suits!

That's probably 4 days longer than you'll manage!

If it's an average example with signs of average circulation it won't be worth much I'm afraid. To have a value if will need to be better than average, with good amounts of hair detail on the king and definition on the reverse too. A mint condition example will be a dark shiny black colour, as they were all chemically darken at that time to avoid be confused as Half Sovereigns.