Chris Perkins

I have singles on ebay (so does another seller) but I don't yet have 10's and 100's. I will do at some point.

I'm not too impressed either, the thing is, if they don't take the 1000 books that I basically printed with them in mind there is a rish i'll end up stuck with them!

Following my online order, I got an email from WHSmith: We have received a report that the above order is currently out of stock with the supplier. We apologise for the inconvenience this delay causes. We will keep the order recorded on your account and we will only charge your card once the order is in stock and ready to be delivered to you. Erm, that's strange, because I'm the supplier and I have over 3500 copies stored in the house over the road!!!

Don't you already have one? Fair enough.

'Re-Supply', that's either rubbish, or they've been getting them from Gardners books. Hopefully they'll need to order through me before the 3rd. I don't mind if WHSmith order, or Gardners books, but I'd rather they came to me directly, because they tend to buy loads at once, and Gardners only take smaller amounts. If you get a copy Geordie, send it to me and I'll pay you for it including postage costs.

I've now ordered one online for delivery to someone else (so it looks like a gift!). On the last page it said: We are happy to confirm that you will not be charged for this order until we are ready to send it to you. So that may imply that they don't have any, which now means they have to get some Next time I'm in the UK I'll order it in lots of different branches too, until they (or a wholesaler acting for them) order a large quantity.

That wasn't there when I last checked! They either suddenly updated their book database (which comes from a national group that all publishers add new books to) and they're getting stock from a book wholesaler, and not from me. There is a small possibility that me ordering one yesterday triggered their system to add the book. But however it managed to get there, is of course great!

Oh dear, I can see how perhaps someone who wasn't into coins might think that an average price for a range of coins might do the trick in some cases. I don't think any coin collector would think that though! Keep it quiet a, leave them to do it how they want. I don't want any more adequate competition! By the way, Coin News won't let me advertise my book in their mag, because it will compete directly with the Coin Year Book.

This is what Ted Fletcher or the UK metal detectorists magazine Treasure Hunter had to say about Collectors' Coins Great Britain 2005: BOOK REVIEW Collectors’ Coins Great Britain 2005 ISBN: 0-948964-42-1 Publisher: Rotographic I can think of one or two hard-backed and rather pricey books on collecting modern coins that fail to provide their buyers with so much as half the useful knowledge served up in a slim A5 paper-back titled Collectors’ Coins: Great Britain 2005 that has just crossed my desk. This should not surprise me, bearing in mind that the publishers, Rotographic, can trace their pedigree back to those halcyon pre-decimal days in the early 1970s when anybody with a spirit of adventure and an eye for a bargain carried a copy of the miniscule Check Your Change in his/her pocket or purse; when bank clerks suffered all-day harassment to change pound notes for two-hundred-and-forty-pennies in hope that one of them might be a scarce 1918KN or even a legendary 1933. For non-detectorists those days are gone forever; but weekend searches on any clay soil site still hold the possibility of Treasure Hunter readers finding at least F-grade examples of almost any coin from the past two hundred years. So if you missed the chance to buy the previous edition of this little book when I reviewed it about a year ago, here’s the very latest opportunity to add a fact-packed and extremely useful publication to your reference shelves for just £4.95. You’ll get 90-odd pages crammed margin-to-margin with information on every non-gold coin issued in Britain between 1797 and 2004. You’ll also get considerably improved illustrations, and a wealth of numismatic erudition served up in bite-sized snippets that make each turn of the page a minor revelation. Better still, you’ll have at your fingertips crucial price data culled by the editor and his researchers from a range of sources to ensure that prices quoted are accurate and up-to-the-minute. I’m aware that a lot of Treasure Hunter readers bought the 2004 edition, but let me offer a few reasons why it’s worth investing a modest fiver (with 5p change) in this year’s edition: a stronger spine and hardier cover means the new book should stand up to a lot of heavy use as you tug it from your pocket to check on that nice Viccy shilling you’ve just detected; the sharper, brighter clearer illustrations will provide speedy identification of your finds; the improved layout means quicker flicking to the very page where your discovery will be identified; you’ll know at a glance the current value of any British coin find from 1797 right up to last year. Go ahead, invest £4.95 and pocket a constant reference to rarity and value in modern money. Coming soon: ancient coinage given the same treatment! Watch out for my review of Collectors’ Roman Coins Part 1. If your detector retailer or local coins shop doesn’t stock these book go to www.rotographic.co.uk or phone 0871 871 5122. Ted Fletcher. 20 November 2004 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those of you that have stumbled upon this post and are not in the know, the book written by me and reviewed above is available from Predecimal.com: http://www.predecimal.com/books/ccgb2005framed.htm

No, never. They were bloody useless. In fact I was more angry with Western Union that I was with the conning Russian in the end. They simply didn't want to know about how their representatives in the post office in Chemnitz were not properly trained and had caused me to loose £100! So now I simply don't use Western Union.

Here's the picture: (downloading the zip file is not necessary)

Anyone else use Barclays Online banking and finding it consistantly (for about 2 years) the most unreliable website in the world?

No, my account isn't anywhere near as full as I'd like it to be!

It seems that whenever I want to log on it's slow and completely unreliable. I have other accounts too and they always work fine. Natwest online banking is smoothest in my experience.

Honestly, Hoework at your age JMD, that's outrageous!

Super, thanks. There is already a little interest in it, generated from the website and the people that have the first edition. They're good basic books with a lot of info squeezed in for the price and size.

Yes, the ceylon cent will not be worth a great deal unless it's in VF or better condition.

Yes, part 2 will be for silver coins (although the titles of these new versions will probably loose the 'part 1/2' thing). Both of them will go up to about 518 AD when Anastasius reformed the coinage and the Byzantine era 'officially' begun. I'm up to page 62 now on the Base metal version, probably only about another 15 pages and it'll be finished!

Yes, it's perfectly normal (until the Jubilee head shilling of 1887, when they put the reverse round the other way).

I think you'll perhaps generate more interest if you interact with other forum members in other areas, instead of just blatant advertising.

Dear Dave, I'll answer your query in here, instead of over email. I would be 99.9% sure that what you have is a modern novelty set of Crowns. Often referred to as 'Fantasy'. The Royal Mint never made a 1936 Edward VIII Crown or a 1936 George V Crown, and the fact that you have them must mean they are modern repros. 1937 Edward VIII Crowns may exist in patten form probably in the British Museum or Royal Mint collection, but the only 1936 Crown was the George V wreath type.

Oh I see. The thing is, ancient coins tend to be so irregular in shape and size do you really think a scale would be any use? The images are shown as close as possible to actual size, but the real ones were rarely perfectly round of course. I suppose it would be useful for readers to measure their own coins against.

What do you mean by a scale Geordie?

Damn, I'd left this forum wide open so the whole world could see it! That wasn't the intention at all. Geordie and Juan (Unknown) I've moved you up to be part of the 'Numismatic Research group', so now you can see this area (and another) and have full rights to post in it. There are only a few select members in here because this info is not really for the public. So Geordie......printing it out is fine, but don't go photocopying it for your mates (as if that wasn't obvious) This book should be around 75 - 80 pages long, so at p53 I'm already a considerable way through. The images are fiddly, but not nearly as hard at soucing all new ones like with CC2005. I hope to have the book proofread, with a fancy cover and printed in January. Then hopefully the Silver coin version a few months after that.

Surely if lots of people sue for example the local council it will mean that the local council has less money to provide services to you, a local person. If you sue an educational authority, it will mean that the schools will get less books/equipment. I'm sure they have an amount of money for legal action stashed away, but ultimately the people suffer in some small way. The compensation culture can respresent a selfish side to today's society. If I tripped up a paving stone when I was younger (and indeed now!) I would be told to bloody watch where I was going.