Chris Perkins

Well nice of you all to offer to help so far, when I take over from RJ Marles I will certainly need your help! Although he will also be willing to help out I'm sure. But don't forget 1821 - date probably won't be done for a year of so. The most likely update to come next will be 1760 - 1820 (The George III book) and even that will be at least 2 months away. I have to take delivery of the master documents which by the sounds of it are in some kind of old DOS format. I have to convert them to a windows format, and scan lots of pictures too, because the pictures are currently actual greyscale photographs and get added to the text before printing! I should hopefully finish the website (at least a basic version) today, and I'll upload it later.

Thankyou for your support, both of you. To answer your Question Oli, on a good year 20,000 of the books are sold. Perhaps it averages 13,000 or something of the main title (I think it's more than the Coin yearbook!) I'm not sure about the others, I would imagine they are fractions of that. My own sales show that I could sell 350-400 CCGB2004's on predecimal.com in 1 year (using my 7 mth figures). In a year I should personally sell 150-200 Collectors Irish and Collectors Banknotes and perhaps close to 150 Collectors Roman. So using my results as an average, the other books should come to a good few 1000 altogther anually. Other places to monitor prices would include any website that offer coins for sale. I suppose the asking price is all very well, but really we are concerned with the actual selling prices. Perhaps we could ask for the record of sales from Colin Cooke, myself of course, and any other online dealers. As well as subscribing to lists etc (at my expense, I'm not expecting you to shell out).

That's what the profile thing is for, when you click on the users name. If you used a smaller font in your signature, you could write a whole essay!

Oli, Yes, we do tend to deviate, but I think that's just the way things go. I too have noticed irrelevant messages and have in fact deleted the odd brain dead comment. I'm all up for saving server space, so feel free to point out anything irrelevant to me Constable Oli. Perhaps over email.

I have one in my wallet at this very minute and at least one other at home. Shall I put your name on one? What's all this coin re-ownership going on in MY forum!!!????

Well, I changed the hosting arrangement and at the same time wanted to give it a revamp (mainly to make it more difficult to get a free valuation, because they were such a drain on resources). It's been down a couple of weeks, and it's so nice to have peace and quiet on that side of things! I expect I'll put it up again soon, but I don't think I have the time to provide a free service anymore.

That's a tricky one to spot sometimes, and you probably need bigger pictures to be clear. The ornate trident has like an extra bit under the horizonal part between the prongs.

Steady on William! Harsh words there, but thanks for the defence. In your eyes I can do no wrong....Hmmm, if only you had more money to spend with me! (Joke)

No camera yet! The seller lacks communication skills and wouldn't take a bank transfer as payment. He has now confirmed receipt of the cheque, so I hope he gets it sent out quickly. (In answer to your note Mint Mark)

Having read lots of reveiws online, and seeing some of the picture results I decided to set about purchasing a digital camera good enough to photograph coins with. New high spec digicams are very expensive so I eventually settled on a second hand Nikon Coolpix 990 digital camera. Apparently it's a very good camera and with a minimun focal length of just 2cm it seems ideal for taking pictures of special coins, the kind that don't scan well or deserve a far higher quality image (ancient/hammered coins, medals with high relief and expensive coins mainly). In fact I found a Roman coin site that uses the Nikon 990 to take pictures of ancient coins, and they really look wonderful. When I've taken delivery and learnt how to use it, I will hopefully post some of my best pictures on the forum. In the mean time, any digital camera techniques for taking pictures of coins will be gratefully received, as I have until now scanned almost everything.

Get a sense of humour and notice the smiley faces Ms Bray! Forgive me for coming over a little ratty, it can sometimes be tiresome when some slightly rude people (although, not yourself included) demand to know about their coins all day, every day. I may have been mistaken and automatically put you in the catagory too. Best wishes to you and the baby.

(as a side note Penny Master, the large Lighthouse trays on my website are identical to Lindner, stack with Lindner and cost less: http://www.predecimal.com/collectors/shop/...largertrays.htm )

That looks like a German made jeton type piece, what do you think Edward/Kuhli? The picture is small, but even to an untrained English eye, it really doesn't look real.

Well that's more than catalogue, but I don't think unfair by any means, and your may be a long time looking for a better one.

It's American William, go back to sleep

Ah yes, so you do. Silly me, for some reason I thought I just sold you the GIII.

All the 1953 varieties (and many others) are listed in the Collectors Coins GB 2004! Oh what a wonderful book that is.

That's awful. Isn't it the ultimate in ignornace when someone is genuinely too ignorant to realise they are complety ignorant!!!

Master JMD, I think Edward is talking about highly specialised information, of the kind that simply doesn't exist on the internet. I also know that Edward is quite capable of using a search engine and finding pictures of coins. Despite Edward's new appearance in the forum, I know for a fact that he has been involved with coins of one form or another for quite a while and already has a high level of knowledge on the subject. We appeciate your enthusiasm (as ever) but please don't overly try to be an authority on everything, it really doesn't read well.

Do you know that officially the French Euro is made up of 100 Centimes? I think most people probably call them cents, but France officially still has centimes.

10 Rappen isn't it, they have 100 Rappen is a Swiss Franc. The lady is 'Helvetica', just like Britannia, Hibernia, Germania, Caledonia etc. Switzerland is like a little Island in a sea of Euro nations.

And now the bandwidth will really start to go down the pan!

Blimey, that woman in your signature Master JMD is probably getting far more pleasure than she really should out of her coin collection! http://www.crecon.com/banners/users/108352...21081finish.gif

Looks good, but the reason the text appears dull and blurry is because you saved it as a fairly low quality jpg, and to save file size space the jpg format kind of mingles the colours together.

Well you need to create an HTML link to that picture. For example: <p align="center"><img border="0" src="http://www.predecimal.com/images2/images/arrow.gif" align="left"> But replace the path: http://www.predecimal.com/images2/images/arrow.gif with the path of your image that is hosted wherever.