Chris Perkins

That sounds fair, lot of money for a student to spend on a sixpence though! I bet your mates must think you're loopy.

Go on, how much is it?

You're right, I always take that legend with a pinch of salt because people always write it wrong, start in the wrong place or the letters are too worn, so they guess. You need to post a picture Karen.

Thanks, mine's a bit better too, from memory.

Hello everyone, Now I know there is at least one of you with a condor token reference book, and i'd like to know what would be fair prices for these coins if I featured them on the site in the for sale section? Feel free to point me in the direction of any you have seen online, and pictures of mine are available on request. These are just sitting around, most are low grade, a couple are very nice and i'd like to shift them. The list: 1: Exeter Halfpenny 1792. Rev has coat of arms, obv shows Bishop with legend ‘SUCCESS TO THE WOOLEN MANUFACTORY’. ‘PAYABLE AT THE WAREHOUSE OF SAMUEL KINGDON’ on edge. Two M’s stamped on either side of the Bishop. Condition: Good, maybe NF at a push. 2: Kent Halfpenny Token 1794 Coat of arms and date on one side, another coat of arms with ‘SUSSEX’ under it and the legend ‘FOR CHANGE NOT FRAUD’ Edge Legend looks like ‘GIBBS SUSSEX PAYABLE BY’. Condition: Easily Fine perhaps even NVF. 3: Sheffield Penny Token 1815 (Have 2 of them) Standing figure on obv with ‘SHEFFIELD PENNY TOKEN’. Rev has legend ‘OVERSEERS OF THE POOR’ around an image of a building/house. Edge diagonally milled in centre like Soho issues. Condition: around Good/fair. 4: Liverpool Halfpenny 1791 Ship on obv with coat of arms on rev and latin legend which is not readable. Edge milled. Condition: Poor. 5: Monmouth Halfpenny 1795 ‘JAMES POWELL IMPORTER’ and 1795 on obv. Picture of a barrel in centre. Rev legend ‘J POWELL WINE & BRANDY MERCHANT MONMOUTH’ with grape picture. Edge says ‘PAYABLE AT MONMOUTH AND ABERGAVENNY’. Condition: As struck, no wear with a lacquered appearance. 6: Flint Lead works 1813 (Penny) Obv legend ‘FLINT LEAD WORKS’ and date, with image of the lead works. Rev has ‘ONE PENNY TOKEN’ in centre surrounded by ‘ONE POUND NOTE FOR 240 TOKENS’. Edge milled. Condition: Good/fair. 7: The Anglesey mines Halfpenny 1788 Parys miners company insignia on obv, druid on rev with wreath. Edge legend ‘PAYABLE AT ANGLESEY LONDON OR LIVERPOOL’. Condition: Good with scratches. 8: The Anglesey mines Halfpenny 1791 (Have 2 of them) As above but dated 1791 and edge reads ‘PAYABLE AT ANGLESEY OR LONDON’. Coin seems thicker. Condition: Good, perhaps better, but not the best dies used. 9: Hull Halfpenny 1791 Coat of arms, date, wreath, legend on obv. Rev has figure on horseback with legend ‘GULIELMUS TERTIUS REX’ (obviously a reference to William III) and a date MDCLXXXIX (1689 I think). Edge ‘PAYABLE AT THE WAREHOUSE ??????? GARTON’. Conditon: Good /fair. 10: Manchester Halfpenny 1793 Man carrying something on his back on obv. Rev has coat of arms and legend ‘SUCCESS TO NAVIGATION’. Edge is chevron milled. Condition: EF-UNC with much lustre. 11: Birmingham and Swansea halfpenny 1811 Quite plain with ‘ROSE COPPER COMPANY’ and diagonally milled edge. Condition: all readable struck with rubbish die, Good. 12: Bristol and South Wales Penny token 1811 Prince of Wales plume on obv. Rev shows a castle and ‘VIRTUTE ET INDUSTRIA’ Edge diagonal milled. Condition F-VF. 13: Birmingham One penny 1813 Picture of building on Rev. Coat of arms with ‘ONE POUND NOTE FOR 240 TOKENS’ and ‘PAYABLE AT THE WORKHOUSE’ on the rev. Edge diagonal centre milled. Condition: Good. 14: Edinburgh Halfpenny 1791 Coat of arms featuring castle on obv. Rev has ‘NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT’ (as pound coin) with thistles and someone holding a large St Andrews cross. Edge says ‘PAYABLE AT THE WAREHOUSE OF THOs & ALEXr HUTCHISON’. Condition: around Fine. 15: Edinburgh Halfpenny 1792 Exactly as above but dated 1792. More to follow, depending how successful this is. Thanks, Chris

In all areas, the students are indeed revolting! Regardless of the year their school was established. Anyway, I'll leave it there.

You're welcome, now I'm just going to slate you in some other areas...

Then it's either a guinea, or a fake guinea. Value of course depends on if it's real and what condition it's in. If it is real it'll be worth at least £55 for gold content. You need to let me see a picture to assess. Where are you? Either email me, or register on here and post one.

Stood back and heard yourself lately?

Sort it out Olli, I know it's your birthday today, but get your head out from up your arse! It doesn't matter if you are fortunate enough to have got into a grammar school (established 1554) or if you go to a 'normal' comp. As long as the individuals get the opportunity to reach their potential. At most schools, with decent enough teachers that are able to spot potentials, and assuming the pupils want to reach it, then that is achievable. I went to a normal 'Comprehensive' (established 1936) as I failed my 11+. Nevermind, I'm doing alright, and am happing doing it. And guess who's finger is on the 'ban' button today!! Oh the power.

Because we seem so good at temporarily loosing the subject I thought I would start this area just to deviate in. Perhaps we can do the equivalent of going from nuts, through Hitler, to cabbage in less than 10 posts! Let me start the subject with, erm, well this is quite boring, but let's see where it goes...... Do the conservative party have a chance of winning a British election within the next 50 years? And just for good measure... who quite fancies Shania Twain?

What is the diameter size (in mm) and what does the writing say on it? Also, does it feel heavy like gold, or not?

First is a British Threepence, second is a New Zealand threepence. Both are worth very little unless in mint condition (and even in mint condition they are just worth a couple of pounds)

I'd hazzard a guess that the car is a Bentley 4.5 Litre and that the token was issued at a shell garage. The Shell company often make little collections of car, football and goodness knows what else coins. I would imagine it's pretty new, probably no older than the 50's. Maybe it was part of a series of British Sports car coins, one from each decade or whatever.

What a strange thing that is, why and how would anyone do that? Maybe it's a secret club symbol, you know, funny handshakes, right nipples out, and all that. Maybe it was cursed or something, and that's why it was thrown away

In Germany we're supposed to seperate paper, glass and plastic from the rest of the rubbish and put them in different bins. It's such a drag, especially when many things are made of 2 different things. Like Jiffy bags with paper on the outside, plastic bubbles on the inside etc. The authorities have been known to actually check what rubbish come from whom, and there are fines and probably even prison sentences! We have a blue bin for paper, an area for glass (but only milk and i think Wine bottles. The other glass bottles have to go back to the shop), a yellow bin for plastic (which should be cleaned of foodstuffs first) and a dark bin for the rest. We have to clean the yoghurt pots and other plastic packaging before throwing them away. Non PET plastic bottles have to be taken back to where you purchased them for the return deposit. Because people can't be bothered to return the drink bottles, and especially in summer, some areas run out of bottles, so they have to make new ones anyway. The fact you have to take them back to where you got them is a nightmare too, especially if you're travelling. I have a coke bottle from Berlin that i've had for a year and a half because I haven't been back to Berlin! I so look forward to going to the UK and just chucking everything into one bin without having to clean them, split them up and risk being arrested if I don't! But of course it's better for the environment, and the UK is way behind the lengths the contintal peoples go to. Although I heard that the transport costs of getting all the packaging/bottles back to the factories or reprocessing plants, as well as having to supply seperate bins, and pay different companies to collect different things, the extra time it takes in the shops to seperate the returned bottles by type/colour, that it would probably work out cheaper to just make new packaging and bottles!

Now don't be too hard on the poster William, that's actually quite nicely written compared to some of the emails I get from the brain dead morons, in 'What's it worth' land.

This sounds like an unofficial set of 10 coins from 10 commonwealth countries all dated 1977. If so, it's nothing special, but I won't speculate until we get some decent details!

The reverse pic is the St George one above I believe.

You know, you may laugh at the eco warriors, but every green party in Europe has the same ethics and could probably unite far more easily than the other parties ever could. Can you imagine a super European Green party? I saw a thing on TV. They even have pan Europe Green party meeting now you know.

The tone goes all wrong, it kind of looks clean and yukky. I had a friend at school who had such sweaty hands he could do it just by holding a coin for an hour or so. Yuk

Very well put, and they are available in far more varieties.

Great. All the best,

Email me tony: cp@predecimal.com, and we'll talk about this.

Tony, That's a tall order. I don't know if there is anyone that would have the time to do software like that and include data for all world coins, with those features. It is something that would be saleable, so if you can do it, perhaps we should go into partnership and offer Krause a run for their money!