Chris Perkins

I'm not saying a word.

And the whole Bike:

These are the pictures of the Churchill Crown welded into a hole on a large and very attractive Triumph motorcycle. The owner wanted something British that would go well with the British Bike. It had to be common and it had to be cheap. Hmmm I noticed he used the Queen side in the end!

I had no idea you really liked mass-debating so much Oli

Thanks. To quate a popular supermarket advertising campaign: Every little helps.

Hello everyone, I'm back from the UK now. I think I may have briefly mentioned this somewhere else in the forum... Over the last few months the bandwidth usage of the website (or amount of data transfered in gb) per month has been way over my limit of 1gb per month. On one hand it shows that elements of the wesite are growing in popularity, which is great. On the other hand it means I have to jolly well pay extra if I can't get the bandwidth useage down to a reasonable level! I've made small changes behind the scenes to the main website, made a few images smaller etc so that less bandwidth is used up when a user views images. That should help things a little. Looking at my stats the main usage of bandwidth is the forum. It's growing quite nicely and being filled with lots of interesting stuff, but can I ask favours of you people? Only post images when you really have to. I will be looking through and removing irrelevant images when I can. When practical, please post a link to the web page that the image is on (or to the actual image if absolutely necessary, but see next point) Try not to steal images from other websites, as they are probably copyrighted. I have seen some images lately that I'm pretty sure are not the property of the poster MOST IMPORTANTLY: Ensure all images are as small (in actual size and kb size) as possible. You don't need a huge screen size picture to show something well. I will be having a look at reducing the maximum size of image that can be posted, so if you find you are unable to post a picture that may be the reason. Any problems, post here of PM me.

The Wreaths are not all still there, I've sold 5 of them but either haven't been paid yet, or haven't had a chance to remove them.

I have a blue plastic 'decimeter' with 2 wheels, one for £ and one for S, and it tells you in the little windows what it is in new money. Not as much fun as the card game I'm sure.

Yes, post 1816 is much easier than pre because of the technology, but it's basically the same thing. Assuming the coin is struck properly you're still looking for how much wear there is. It's a very complicated thing and it certainly very different for early milled. Hammered, well hammered is like another language.

Yes but it is flawed and I can't be bothered to correct it: Third Farthing = bit more then a quater farthing! (come on) And what is a Coin variable...You mean denomination? Guinea = 21 shillings (the value of a Guinea was not always fixed and went up to 30s at one stage) Half Sovereign = Gold Bullion. Sovereign = Gold Bullion.............Not really, they were 20s and are now traded as bullion after the gold standard was dropped. I really like your entusiasm Master MKD, and your desire to help people is admirable also, but it's very lacklustre. This one is going, you are however welcome to do proper research and submit a better 'British Predecimal denimination' guide if you wish.

obese

Please don't take offence Master JMD, if I remove this thread when you have acknowledged you are aware of that fact.

Yes, and Florins and shillings were demonetised in the early 90's, (double florins, oficially never) and I'm sure silver threepences continued being legal tender until D Day, they just stopped producing them in 1945 (or earlier for Mainland GB). You should absolutely get your facts right Master JMD, before you, as a beginner, attempt to offer information to ther beginners.

Yes but even those thresholds of major re-coinages, especally the 1816 are questionable. A VF Early Milled Half Crown should have 'lost' just as much metal as a VF 1817 Half Crown. Althought the practice of grading the 2 is different, even with hammered coins, a VF EI shilling should have lost the same proportion of metal as an EII Shilling, surely?....it's just the different between weak strike and wear that gets harder the further back you go.

It could just be because banks take in the older manky coins, and many of the older coins are, well probably manky. They probably do melt the bronze down, make a small profit and then replace it with a steel one. But surely the actual cost of making the stell replacement would probably be more than the bronze value of the older one. I think you get 70p per kilo of Bronze, how many 2p's in a kilo?

The concept of grading has nothing to do with how easy it is to find any particular coin. When you have the actual coin, whatever it is, it can be graded subjectively, and the year it was made is irrelevant. An EF Bun penny of 1867 with lustre in the lower areas is exactly the same as a 1967 EF penny with lustre in the lower areas, despite the 100 years between, and the ease of find one over the other. You have a way to go Master JMD, stick around you will learn a lot.

These youngsters these days, they just seem to get younger and younger. I thought they still showed Mary Poppins at least twice over Christmas.

This is the same poll ad part 1, what an earth has a 1952 threshold got to do with anything?

Nevermind the lustre, it's the lack of wear that makes a coin UNC. It could have blinding lustre in the low parts but wear on the high parts whatever age it is!

Indeed they are, they're the best, but Lighthouse are the same!....And if you ordered from Lindner in the UK, then you ordered from a normal Lindner dealer, like I am a normal Lighthouse dealer. They do the foreign opperations cheaply by just picking a dealer in the UK to call 'Lindner UK', or whatever. The only way you can truly order direct, is from the German factory, like I do. Hence my prices are pretty damn good for Lighthouse.

Copy and paste my HTML bit above and change the name and wording etc....Have a fiddle with the size="2" numbers and look on a chart for the hex list of colours that take the 6 character format, like the #0000FF.

Dyke (careful!)

I can get tweezers too, and the Lighthouse large coin trays are exactly the same as Lindner in every respect, they stack together etc, you can't tell them apart, except for the name on the drawer handle. He's a thing that you maybe didn't know....Lindner enforce a price fixing policy and for a coin dealer to be eligible to be supplied by Lindner you have to promise that you will sell them at the price they tell you te sell them at! That's why the lighthouse ones are cheaper, I can charge what I like, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they are even made in the same factory, for that matter. I do not supply Lindner because of the price fixing, and would only do so if I was asked to be enough people.

Banana-boat

It'd called 'Viss' in Germany, so I don't know what the Jiff people are playing at. We bought some today. (sorry Raoul for ignoring your coin, I hope you are very pleased with it!)