Chris Perkins

Thanks, That dealer appears to basically be an ebay seller with a web page or 2, and they seem to specialise in tokens, which is great. Thanks.

Hmmm, I sense a conservative flavour in the forum.

Hey, that's like, no problem man!

I'd say it's probably very unlikely to be fake, unless it looks too nice to be true. You'll have to show us a picture.

You have to reduce the size of the picture via paintshop or something like that, so you have a small clear picture you can use, instead of using a huge one and having the forum software struggle to re size it.

They don't make 'em like they used to do they. I'm sure the Duke of Cumberland didn't let the peasants bother him too much though.

No that's ok, that is a big help. I'd also noticed that the low grade ones tend to sell for £2-5, the better ones around £20.00, and UNC examples £50-70. So when I get around to it, I'll price them accordingly. Thanks,

Well what did you expect? It's only 34 years old, and was spent as legal tender right up until the 1990's. If the time coins were made was represented by a 24 hour day, your 5p would have existed from about Quarter to midnight until now...It's not old, and they made them by the million. Can you tell me, because this interests me...What was it that made you think that such a new coin would be in anyway exciting? I'm not being patronising, it's just that as a coin dealer I cannot understand why people get excited by ordinary coins that are dated well within living memory. Is it because of all these programmes on TV about going to get 'old' bargains at car boot sales, the fact that the media seems to lead you to believe that anything over 10 years old is rare and valuable? Or are you very young, and don't remember the 5p's being that larger size?

Damn right, it's all the bloody same, they just wear different coloured ties, and make you believe that there really is some kind of choice.

I'm not down with the kids anymore, exactly who is that Miss Moore, that you so desire?

Erm, 5p. Unless you could pass it off as a 10p (I didn't tell you that!) If it's in mint condition, it'll be worth slightly more, but an average circulated 1970 5p is about as interesting as the most boring man in the world.

Probably yes, but if they were just average circulated/worn British coins they probably were not worth anything in the first place! Why not try to use lower case and a little punctuation next time, it's so much easier on the eye.

They are called Cumberland Jacks, and were made to poke fun at the then Duke of Cumberland, who no one liked, and everyone wanted to send him to Hannover. I stole this from the www24carat.co.uk website: Many brass imitations were made as publicity tokens or propaganda pieces. One very common example is the "Cumberland Jack", a brass imitation guinea issued around the time of Queen Victoria's accession in 1837. It features a young head portrait of Victoria on the obverse, and a mounted Duke of Cumberland, after the style of Pistrucci's famous Saint George and Dragon, on the reverse, with the inscription "To Hanover". This was a reference to the Duke, an unpopular character, becoming the ruler of Hanover, a title which Victoria was debarred from inheriting because she was female.

Yes if you like, and as you're a member now, you can post pictures.

The 1929 100 Schilling Gold, catalogues at about £300.00 if it's perfect. Good luck.

Diana, We never heard from our Austrian guest again unfortunately. I don't know about your first coin. But I can tell you that the 10 korona 1907 is Hungarian (Austro-Hungarian) and worth about £30.00 unless it's in perfect condition. Is the Österreich 100 Schilling a gold coin, and in mint condition? I know nicht (nothing) about medals and commemorative plaques from Austria.

Mine is not curly, but kind of has a wave to it. It's been with me a long time, and really only trimmed since before 1995. In this forum we tend to deviate from the subject, but that's ok! I'm going to start a forum, especially so that we can deviate in it.

Oh, I just wondered because of the name, it implied you may have long hair, and perhaps you therefore look a little like my 'character' picture (Dee Snider of Twisted Sister)??? Not to worry if you don't , you're still most welcome

Hey Hippy, Do you look like my avatar too?

Probably an unofficial 1911 Coronation medal from the style. Geoff will confirm. Although like that, I doubt it's worth very much.

Well done Geoff, there could have been no better way to get us back on track. In the gents toilet at Altenburg-Leipzig airport in Germany, the toilet roll dispensers depict a 'Toilet roll dispenser cartoon character' named 'Big Willy'! Did I chuckle to myself!

They should all have 'SOHO' on them I believe. The only possible cause of a lack of SOHO would be because it has been worn away through use.

Geoff will know, where are you Geoff?

Now where else can you find Hitler compared to cabbage. You read it here first!

That's because it was struck in the Soho district of Birmingham (not London, like a lot of people think) by the bran new technology at Mathew Boultons steam coin press. It revolutioned the way coins were struck and was in use (as far as I know) right into Victorian times, when electricity took over.