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  1. Chris Perkins
    Ha, look at this: http://www.curriemotors.com/ That's the US version, but same slogan they've used for 20+ years!
  2. Chris Perkins
    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!
  3. Chris Perkins
    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.
  4. Chris Perkins
    Hello, I'm Chris
  5. Chris Perkins
    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.
  6. Chris Perkins
    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.
  7. Chris Perkins
    A German Woman won gold in the womens Judo. Scary that.
  8. Chris Perkins
    I have seen late Victorian - early Elizabeth II Maundy money in official looking boxes, but it probably exists in official boxes around those dates.
  9. Chris Perkins
    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.
  10. Chris Perkins
    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.
  11. Chris Perkins
    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.
  12. Chris Perkins
    And he's a nice enough chap too. I saw him at the last London Coin fair and bought my Peck off him.
  13. Chris Perkins
    It was only about a tenner, and I think I got it on Amazon. I do use mine a little, mainly with Roman.
  14. Chris Perkins
    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.
  15. Chris Perkins
    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!
  16. Chris Perkins
    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!
  17. Chris Perkins
    What about all the Greeks on here?
  18. Chris Perkins
    Those rotten Athletes always seem to be trying to get one over on the drugs testers, as more and more untestable varieties seem to be emerging. Might as well just let them all use drugs, and the winner will be the one who used the most or best drugs!
  19. Chris Perkins
    Well actually it wasn't my idea. If you look, Marles already has bi-dates in the 2004 CCGB, and has done since the early 70's I think. It's especially helpful for those people that get confused by Roman numerals, and I know there are lots of those!
  20. Chris Perkins
    Right, corrected those. I better get on with adding some pictures. By the way, pleased you liked the Roman numerals in the Gothic florin section becaue I paid £22 for the font, just to use on 2 pages!
  21. Chris Perkins
    The first is a Maria Theresa Austrian Thaler (A popular request). The date was 'frozen' long ago, so the coin is probably very modern and worth about £6.00 for silver content. The second is a Churchill Crown, made in very large numbers and worth £1 at most if it mint condition.
  22. Chris Perkins
    I would hazard a guess at: Lots of the worlds best athletes!
  23. Chris Perkins
    Right O Steve.
  24. Chris Perkins
    Yes, by all means, sort into groups, let me know what you have and perhaps we can do a deal taking postage into account.
  25. Chris Perkins
    For the pre 1946 Silver I pay 4x face value, for post '47 'silver' coins I'll pay 75% of face value and for the copper bronze it depends how good they are. Sometimes I pay up to 20p per readable Victorian penny. Problem is, unless you have an awful lot it's difficult to offset the cost of posting. Where are you located?
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