Chris Perkins

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)

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.

When you've done the HTML editing bit, copy the HTML code as text, then paste it into the signature area. The image size sounds fine.

Use an HTML editor and copy the finished text. I have never tried it, but William seems to have images. You have to make sure it's a jpg or gif and not too large. How big is the image?

Louise, To aid your research you can purchase one of these books for only £4.50 plus £2.00 postage: http://www.predecimal.com/books/ccgb2004framed.htm Register in the forum to share your findings and I'll let you have one for just £5.75 including the postage.

I have 2 in the current newsletter William, including another of the 43/34 variety!

Louise, It's a 'Three halfpence' (or one and a half pence). It was made for use in the colonies, but because it is just like larger GB denominations it's often included as a 'British' coin. Values are just a few pounds in F-VF condition.