Chris Perkins

So it's still called 'Jiff' over there is it! That's very unfair.

(My Uncle, William Henry Perkins went down on the HMS Hood on that fateful day, I met Edward Briggs the other year, the only still living survivor out of the 6 that survived out of 1200, or whatever it was. Dad and I are members of the HMS Hood association in Unlce Billy's honour. Although my Dad is not old enough to have known him) my word, dare I... Stamp!

Oh yes, thanks, well I did start it! For a good 3 months I was mostly talking to myself, and although I am still a big contributor it's nice to know that me only makes up around a quarter of the total posts thus far.

Yes they are very difficult to grade, use the reverse too and look for hair.

Capri (not so!)

I like a nice BU dark Edward VII farthing with that wonderful tone. Very pretty, but you really have to have a perfect one in your hand. They don't scan at all well.

See here: http://www.predecimal.com/dictionary.htm It's my little general numismatic dictionary thing, do you like it? It was bought to my attention that there was be some words missing. So tell me some coin related phrases or words that you think I should add...And the definitions, and I'll add them!

I decided to Omit some specialist terms in the hope of providing a general list. Right, I'm going to start a new topic for additions.....

I have a nice little glosary too, have you seen it? http://www.predecimal.com/dictionary.htm

No, it's perfectly ok Raoul, i'd be much more concerned it it was anygood! Not to say it's particularly bad...Just not great for British Milled collectors, which is what most of my members are. Feel free to draw our attention to any related website you care to.

Master JMD has worked out the signature!

Ah, that solves it, you can use normal HTML in your signature. At the time of writing, mine is: <font color="#000000"><b><font face="Arial" size="3">Chris Perkins</font><font face="Arial" size="2"><bR></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2">British coins, Collecting accessories, books, and this great forum!</font></font><br> <a href="http://www.predecimal.com"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#0000FF"><b>www.predecimal.com</b></font></a></p>

http://www.predecimal.com/collectors/shop/gloves.htm Aha, so that's why none of those are selling! You can get to them but it isn't easy! I used to sell 3 pairs at a time because of minimum credit card transaction amounts....I can of course let you have 1 pair for £3.00

Isn't he considerate.

What's wrong with my cotton cheap gloves £9.00 for 3 pairs?

No serious collectors would buy that, they are basically just for tourists or for people to buy as gifts for collectors. If you got those as a gift, what could you say...'Sorry Nan, they're complete poo, can you take them back?'

As you know, I'm 25 now and even though there were computers around in the 80's they were few and far between. My first 'PC' was a Sinclair ZX81 which I spent time programming in BASIC everytime I turned it on (I didn't have a cassette recorder to save anything on!). It was a hand me down from my uncle. (The same unlce that started me coin collecting) I then progressed through Spectrums, right up to the 128k +3 which had a disk drive! Then an Atari ST, then a 286....386's, 486, Pentium 1, 2, and now I'm on an AMD1300.

erm, there were flames, err, and the devil with a goat, but it might have been a sheep, or even a lamb. When you're being possessed the species of sacfificial animal is not top of your agenda.

My dad's even quicker than that!

Don't give 'em ideas, I want to do that in the future!

It's good that they are embracing it, but they could perhaps do it in a better way, like become an 'ebay partner' or something like that. Something to be more 'official'. They are the worlds most famous and longest established auctioneer of numismatic items, and they auction their numismatic books on the worlds most infamous auctioneer of numismatic items! The same place that many brain dead, clueless people auction numismatic items. Such irony.

Yes, a couple of good ones there, but I don't want people to think i'm a satanist into black magic and all that, I'm really very normal. Do research on sleep paralysis, as that is what I had I believe.

Everyone dreams of dead goats and devils at some point, don't they? The nick names aren't that inspiring. The first one was wonderful, but perhaps a tad too long.

We are in the Nothing Whatsoever to do withCoins Area Chris... Yes, but one has to draw the line somewhere! You think a nickname would possibly be good then, I'm up for ideas.

I'm sure people would humour you if you told them; very odd, I've never heard of anything like this before (in my long experience ) Maybe you could try hypnotherapy to induce it again....then film it and put it up for download! This is a coin site, not a paranormal site! Where I go when I leave my phsyical body is entirely my business.