Chris Perkins

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!

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.

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?