Chris Perkins

None of the pictures work on the link.

Where are you located? You can post the picture within this thread, there's no need to start another one. The information was mostly from refering to the 'Standard Catalog of World Coins 1801-1900' published in the USA by Krause. I am British and make frequent UK trips, but I actually live in Germany, not all that far from Leipzig actually.

It's a Two Thirds of a Thaler (hence the 2/3) coin featuring a quite unflattering portrait of George IV of Great Britain and of course Hannover. It was minted in Clausthal, Germany and is in fact .993 fine silver (99.3%). it should weight 13.08g. I'd like to see a picture of it, if it's as nice as you say it could be worth £150 or more, but don't get excited, the coin industry is a very fussy one and a good quality picture is very important so I can judge it on its merits. You'll need to register to post picture.

I sold a nice one once for £15.00, the silver approx 2cm type. You're right though, in worn sub EF conditions they can be picked up for not much more than silver value.

I don't know really, I'd be pleased to purchase it for myself for say £40.00 but no one ever sells their error coins. People have contacted me about these kind of things before and I always offer good money, many times face value, but no one ever wants to sell them. Sell ME your error coins!!!

It's a blank that's missed being struck completely. They have the edge lettering put on them first and then they are struck. I have a 50p blank than is just a shaped blank with a raised rim.

That's always been my point of view too. But as it's such a specialist field, who can really judge that their prices are too high? They couldn't be disproved that £4.95 is not fair for 8x EII pennies etc etc. It's tough, but perhaps it's part of learning to be a coin collector. Buy a few Coincraft things, then learn where you can get geniunely rare coins for less!

Ha, look at this: http://www.curriemotors.com/ That's the US version, but same slogan they've used for 20+ years!

Yes, and I seem to remember that 'Currie Motors' A London car dealers used to advertise on Capital Radio in the 80's. Their slogan was 'Currie Motors...Nice People, to do business with'. Shame no one else lived near London or is old enough to remember that too. I don't think they're still going. Maybe they are, or maybe Lobel owns them too!

BU doesn't have to mean no bag marks or imperfections as far as I'm concerned. Everything else is pretty much what one expects in the Phoenix. I used to get sent them in the mid 90's, but I think they stopped sending them after I didn't ever want to buy anything.

Hello, I'm Chris

Eddie, Can you show me a picture of yours? Either here, or over email? cp@predecimal.com Bullion worth depends what fineness gold it is, should be somewhere between £200-£300. Just because it doesn't look sharp, may mean it's just a badly worn real one. Either way, I'd like to purchase it.

No it doesn't, becasue the fakes are always made of real gold, and a really very good one would be about right with the weight. I had an 1887 Fake £5 the other month, in the end I sold it as bullion. I once heard that the fakes have the wrong amount of rim millings, but I'm not sure what it's supposed to be! The quality of the strike is the most important thing. All remaining detail should be sharp without a slightly rough appearance.

A German Woman won gold in the womens Judo. Scary that.

I have seen late Victorian - early Elizabeth II Maundy money in official looking boxes, but it probably exists in official boxes around those dates.

They are the bane of the coin collecting scene! By the way HPJ, that Low tide is too expensive, you should hang on, you could probably even wait 3 years and pick one up cheaper.

Maybe Dr Nicolson had little respect for the Soho coins struck with the original dies when they were purchased and scrubbed up in the Victorian period. Not the modern 'fantasy' pieces that have been created with new dies.

You say that, and there's certainly nothing wrong with mine. It's interesting though, everyone I talk to in the trade says it's not that good, and they say that they pulled Lobel up on it too.

Pebbles to Pounds, the Gen on Gemstones. Wierd and wonderful old Rotographic titles, and the 'Check you Change' book that started them all off: http://www.rotographic.co.uk/outofprint_ro...rotographic.htm

And he's a nice enough chap too. I saw him at the last London Coin fair and bought my Peck off him.

It was only about a tenner, and I think I got it on Amazon. I do use mine a little, mainly with Roman.

There is a Whitman book: 'Handbook of Ancient Greek and Roman Coins'. I've got it, and it's ok, but I find the language used hard to read 'easily'. I think most of the text was originally written in the 60's (although I could be wrong), and it's very very formal.

No, I haven't. But I've heard the best one is the title by my very own Reverend Author mate: 'Ancient Greek Coins and their Identification' (or a title similar to that). He wrote it in 1979 I believe, and it was published by Seaby. Maybe one day, the 2006 Edition will be published by Rotographic!

Hey, that's just like when all those members of the Coincraft staff find stuff in their vaults! Just imagine how many thousands of 1964 pennies are wrongly lobeled () as 1967 Pennies under Great Russel Street!

That's a massive jump since last time, I know. This time however, I've concentrated on the text, so the images are just circles to calculate space. I have also yet to complete the image captions. As usual, prices are not correct yet. It's coming along, almost finished the text for section 1 (Circulation coins and mass produced 'easy' proofs) http://www.rotographic.co.uk/1-49.pdf