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  1. Chris Perkins

    Attitude to new currency

    The USA is welcome to see us as an older relation, of course that is true, but that has nothing to do with economies. The world and politics is all about economies, maybe that isn't right, but it's true. What is that new Avatar then? Chris
  2. Chris Perkins

    Attitude to new currency

    ....In your opinion. You cannot make a statement like that without being properly qualified to make it. You are free however, to voice your opinion, and in your opinion Europe has a strange smell and so does it's single currency! There's not a single World War that my Grandad wasn't involved in, either as a 14-18 year old soldier or as a 39-45 year old soldier. Both of those wars were against Germany, my uncle William Henry Perkins (whose middle name I am proud to share) was on HMS Hood which was blown out of the water in 1941 in what was, and probably still is, the single most catastropic British Naval disaster, of which there were only 6 survivors (he was unfortunately not one of them). He was 19. They were British and fighting for survival, over 60 years later here I am living in Germany, the country responsible for my own uncles death. In a smaller way, like all of us I too am fighting for survival (and i'm also very much British), I have bills to pay, responsibilities etc etc. I often wonder how popular the British Euro sceptic (not the currency, the continent) attitude would be if those 2 wars hadn't happened and if there still wasn't unfounded historical distrust towards Europeans (particularly Germans) because of those events. At the moment Britain is very much part of Europe, both economically and or course, geographically, and that really is (despite some silly rules that get on our bloody nerves!) the best way forward. If you are Europe sceptic, ask yourself why that really is? Alone no European country can become a super economy (in fact the US/China/Japan and even Russia make the Uk look like a Minow), but together the UK can be very much an active integral part as one of the 3 richest, most industrial nations in the union. Trading with the US is important, of course, as is trading with China and Japan and the other major economies in the world, but they don't need us, they are already huge, and instead of being bolted on to an existing super economy as a little brother I would personally prefer for the UK to be an active part of the super economy and fast becoming world beater, Europe. In your own words please, argue with that!
  3. Chris Perkins

    Shipwreck Coins

    Hello Roger, Welcome to my Forum, it's nice to have someone else who knows their stuff in our midst. I think Bob was refering to the silver coin shown above. Chris Perkins www.predecimal.com
  4. Chris Perkins

    Help!

    Would you consider selling part of it to me if I could visit your with ready readies in February. Email me your phone number if you like and we can talk in more detail about what you have. Chris Perkins www.predecimal.com cp@predecimal.com
  5. Chris Perkins

    Help!

    Hello, Well I would imagine you may get £1000 on ebay if you were lucky enough. And that's probably more than i would pay, but I imagine having a previous ebay presence would be a big help in selling it. I don't know many people that would hand aver £1000 to someone in sunglasses and with a big fat (0) next to their name. I'd be pleased to list it properly, photograph it, describe it, take the payment, send it, and then settle up with you for a 10% commission (all in, including ebay fees and everything). Where about are you too, I'd like to know what else you have in the mountain? Chris www.predecimal.com
  6. If indeed it was any! No problem Chris
  7. Well I imagine it would be impossible to say in terms of todays money. A groat was 4 pre decimal pence, which equates to 1.6667 modern British Decimal Pennies. So that makes a groat worth, what about 2.82 US cents now. A sixpence is worth 2.5 modern British pennies and a florin is worth 10 modern British pennies. Ducats are not British so I don't know about them. But when groats, florins etc were made they represented a lot more money than a few US cents, just as 200 years ago a US cent had much more value than a modern US cent. Also throughout the years, the value of denominations changes, one year you can buy a loaf of bread for a penny, 10 years later the same loaf of bread (but a new one, of course!) may cost 6 pence due to inflation. In real terms though a florin may have been as important in days gone as a US$5 note, and a sixpence as a 50c coin! So in short, it's a funny old question to want to know the answer to, and damned hard to work out! Chris www.predecimal.com
  8. Chris Perkins

    Nice Change find today...

    Yeah, you're probably right. The German Euros do have something slightly interesting in that they have different mint letters. Those mints and mint letters have been pretty much unchanged since the days of the little German kindoms and probably before. I think it was good that they stayed on the Euros, even though they don't mean that much. Chris
  9. Chris Perkins

    Nice Change find today...

    Funny you should say that old chap, I got 3 bank fresh 2003A German 1 Euro coins today. I know they are only monopoly Euro money, but who knows, someone may want to buy them from my great great grandson in 170 years. Chris
  10. You mean, you want to know what face value those demoninations would represent in US$? Even though they are no longer in use. Or you want to know the value of some of those coins, with specific dates as collectors items now? Chris www.predecimal.com
  11. Chris Perkins

    Attitude to new currency

    Anyone can adopt someone elses point of view, it's even possible to change whose point of view you adopt daily, even hourly. I wonder if Mr Morris really sums up exactly your views, or if Mr Morris is just the person you happen to believe today. I'm afraid I don't believe that you could have answered the question like that yourself. With statistics you can prove anything, and to a degree with 'other peoples arguments' the same is true. Chris
  12. Chris Perkins

    Attitude to new currency

    It matters to me rather a lot, becuase those are the words of an American, and while you clearly share his views, you didn't make that point, he did, in May of this year. Chris
  13. Chris Perkins

    Attitude to new currency

    Now let's here something in your own words Oli, rather than a passage from Dick Morris 'Campaign strategist' for Bill Clinton! Chris
  14. Chris Perkins

    Attitude to new currency

    All sounds very romantic, and great it'd be nice, but it would make trade with all the other decimal countries much harder, if decimal measurements make sense in Science then why don't they make sense in money? It's so easy counting in 10's and 100's. Imagine if I had to sell a coin for 5s 6d to an American, for a start he'd probably be put off, but if he wanted it, it would be much more difficult to convert GBP into other world currencies. We have to move with the times and ok so predecimal was great, my whole domain name is named after it, but unfortunately we cannot go back now. I wish we could get proper pints of milk and buy our sugar by the pound. I certainly think that rendering imperial measurements 'illegal' was absolutely ridiculous! I am against the Euro also, as I think I have said before...The UK has a strong ecomomy and the full control over it should stay in our hands. Why is our future with the US? I also consider myself British, but we can't just pretend our neighbours are not there, even though they are all overseas, and I agree and encourage trade with both America and Europe, but Europe is just 30 miles away. America shares a language (in the most part ) but is thousands of miles away. America is it's own economy, it doesn't need us. It's foreign policies, which are sometimes a little selfish demonstate that is doesn't need anyone. Which is of course absolutely true right now. The labour party have recently removed most of the rights for the heridary peers in the house of lords, and the Queen has less rights than previous monarchs, that's a shame and ends a lot of traditions. I'm very fond of the Queen and think she does a great job as the Queen, certainly by bringing in so much money in the form of tourism, much more than she could spend. And of course representing GB abroad, as she does in a faultless way. But in this day and age it is only natural that the rights of the born privaledged are vanishing, it's the way society evolves (or should that be re-evolves), and democracy is the only way the public will be satisfied. Even though we all know most politicians happen to have gone to the right schools, have the right family and friends and get where they are because of the political scene and priveledged position most of them were born into! Just like a monarchy! I'm with you on the fact that as British people we should be proud of our country, and that all people should be proud of their own countries. Yes lets teach the school children the national anthem, that'd be a good idea. Fly more union jacks, definately. In my little British made car in Germany I sometimes fly my British flag out the sun roof (when I'm quite sure there are no serious Neo Nazis around that might want to really hurt me!). In fact I have only ever owned British made cars. When I see a Toyota with a big Union Jack in the window, I think the driver must be completely missing the point! Oli and Sylvester, you are young (I mean i'm only 25, but anyway) and whether your dates of birth in the information area are true or not, I can tell you are young. I was very much like that too not so long ago. The things you see around you get you down, that's clear, but I would be very suprised if over the next few years your opinions don't mature slightly, you'll think the same about some things, but you will realise a lot of things, and you will realise that your line on certain issues was not sometimes the right one. Please don't think I'm patronising you, I'm on your side! Lets just carry on this discussion in a gentlemanly manner. I think you'd also find that most Americans are a little patchy after the first verse of 'Star spangled banner'! Basically, whoever is in power, whether it be the Queen or a Prime minister from any party, you cannot please all of the people all of the time, and the leader has to be answerable to someone. In the case of democracy it is the electorate (although often in a totally unfair way). Anyway bed time for me now. Chris www.predecimal.com
  15. Chris Perkins

    Attitude to new currency

    Oli, No, I'll keep them there unless people tell me they are offended. I'll only censor the obscene, and perhaps that was extreme, but it wasn't obscene. I'm quite relieved your next post was quite sensible! Point me to a link about the new EU constitution, I want to see what it says about the current nations heads of state. Would be bad, and ironic if her majesty, The Queen of England, who is head of state of all the commonwealth countries, was not actually head of state of England! The Asylum problem needs to be solved at the source, somehow, there is no easy answer, it is natural for people and families (whether they have TB or not) to want the best for their children and a future for themselves. As long as they have no future where they are, they will keep coming. I was also under the understanding that to join the EU any potential member country has to prove it has a rubust enough economy and has strong enough laws, and a good human right record etc, so surely with EU membership and the economic growth and investment that that will bring, most of those people in the new countries will want to stay where they are? From personal experience to become an official resident in Germany, for another EU member you have to prove you have a job to go to or a profession at least, you also have to have somewhere to live and the landlord has to sign something to say you live there. If you want to live in Germany and are from outside the EU, it depends exactly where you're from but with most counrties you have to prove you can speak German to a certain standard and from a few countries you even have to pass an aids test before you're allowed to move here. I imagine you'd like to see similar stricter rules in the UK too Oli? I think with a single EU wide asylum policy that would be the case, it would also stop asylum seekers shopping for a country and force them to stay in the one they entered or go back. Anyway, keep it clean and try not to offend! Chris
  16. Chris Perkins

    Attitude to new currency

    It seems you have quite strong views Olli, and i'm not sure how heated I want the forum to get on non coin related matters! Just to pick up on your last point first...I am British, not a continental European, I just happen to live in continental Europe, I still own a house in Kent, have a family in the UK and will always be British. I always stick up for the British point of view (when I can) and am personally always ranting about how things are better in the UK! I don't want to get into the Iraq situation, I do of course have views on it but will not discuss them in this public fashion. Assylum seekers, ok, clearly a very sensitive subject for all British people and in fact it is very much a Europe wide issue. I have seen lots of programmes on German TV about various coutries in Europe and their policies towards the assylum seeker situation. I do believe that any people from anywhere, if they can offer something to the country in which they reside should be allowed to stay. The problem at the moment is the massive scale of human trafficing that goes on, the organised crime that brings fake assylum seekers into Europe and the UK, the fact that these fakes get benefits from the state is of course resented, the fact that many of them are involved in criminal activity gives the geniune hard working people that simply want to set up a life in a country where they won't get murdered a very bad name. It also seems a lot of these people head straight for the UK, I do believe that there should be a Europe wide assylum policy, the rules should be strengthened so that fake assylum seekers or economic migrants are not allowed to stay. With a Europe wide assylum policy the people would also not be allowed to leave the EU country in which they first entered, and would be checked out there before they were allowed to stay or sent back. The UK's policy needs to be strengthened too, didn't i hear that the home secretary had recently taken steps? Have you ever been to Romania Olli, or Eastern Europe? On what basis can you justify calling the population of Romania and other European countries a rabble? There are poor people everywhere and most of them just want to be able to bring up their family safely and go about their normal lives. They mean you no harm and they are mis represented. These people have not had the advantages that we have and they need support and help to make their own countries nice places to live, the problem must be rectified at the source and I am frankly outraged that you would support murdering innocent people that have probably just sold a kidney in order to be smuggled to a country in order to live a proper life and raise their family securely. A strong deterent is one thing, but blowing people up is quite another. I don't think that continental Europeans want to destroy British culture or independance, nor are they going about it, the EU is about economics. The EU politicians will not ban Cricket and make you eat Frankfurters and Frogs legs! I was once afraid of Europe in a similar fashion to you, but I learned and listened and realised that the only way the UK can be strong is to work with Europe. We don't have to change our way of life, we just have to pull together a bit. I really feel that if you want to carry on with your stated views on this subject that you should perhaps do so via email and not in a public forum. Chris www.predecimal.com
  17. Another Sterling example of the forum being greater than the sum of its parts! Chris
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    Early Milled Coinage

    Glad you got it, i'm sure someone expert enough could remove the silver loop and it would hardly be noticable, but then I suppose it is original exactly how it is. Anyone else that makes 100 useful, well placed posts will also get a free coin! (I have a number of Churchill crowns gathering dust!) Chris
  19. No idea Meredith, i often get asked about tokens but don;t have any books on them yet. I know it's quite a wide subject. I wonder if Sylvester the history student can help on 'Willian Brewster' Sylvester, are you out there? Chris www.predecimal.com
  20. Just to put an end to this one (hopefully)... The programme that started people emailing about their bloody 2 pees on the BBC did state correctly that it was the 1983 Two pence with 'New Pence' on it that is the rare one. Perhaps the programme should have made clearer that none of the other are rare or valuable, but it didn't. So it seems that the Great British public must be either completely stupid to think on average 3-5 of the 2 pees in their pockets are worth £400 each, or the story seems to have evolved in a Chinese whisper style. 'My brother told me 2 pees from 1983 with 'new pence' on were rare, he saw it on the telly'. 'I told my Mum, Dad and 6 friends all 2 pees with 'new pence' on them were rare, because I couldn't remember the date and it probably doesn't matter, my brother saw it on the telly so it must be true!'. Those 8 people with the wrong information told 10 people per week, and those 10 people told another 10 people the following week. But just to make absolutely sure, those 800 people within 2 weeks that have the wrong information decide to look on the internet to see if the rumour is true....Just to make sure that this months mortgage payment or the years car insurance can actually be paid of with a special rare 2 pee that each of the 800 people coincidently own at least 5 of... Those 800 people find my website and about 600 of them are observant enough to see the link on the top of the home page that points at the correct information about the 2 pee rumour that I posted there about a week after the rumour started. What about the other 200 people? The other 200 people are far too concerned by the fact that their 2 pees MUST be worth almost £1000 that in the whipped up frenzy they don't really look at my site, they don't read it, they don't notice the bloody link at the top of the main page. Instead they grab my email address from the contact area, or they use the message facility on the site, and they write me a charming email.... 'i have 5 of those rare 2 pees how much will you give me for them?' At first my replies were quite polite: 'I'm sorry, it's only the 1983 2p with 'New Pence' on it that's rare, see here: http://www.predecimal.com/newpence.htm After about 50, my replies were along the lines of: 'I'll give you 10p for them! They aren't worth anything more than 2p, see here: http://www.predecimal.com/newpence.htm That's about as sarcastic as it got and after 100 or more what I really meant to say was: 'What are you talking about? They made 100's of millions of the bloody things. Did you not see the link at the top of my home page? Your coins are worth 10p. What are the chances 10p can suddenly turn into £1,500? The information is on the site, read it, leave me alone!'. So for those of you that still think your 2 pees are worth £300, SEE HERE: http://www.predecimal.com/newpence.htm Or i'm likely to get very nasty! Chris www.predecimal.com
  21. Well that's that one solved then! I would have no idea about a value i'm afraid. Chris www.predecimal.com
  22. Chris Perkins

    Early Milled Coinage

    Post the essay when it's done if you like, I for one would like to know about the achievements of AEthelred II! Chris
  23. Chris Perkins

    Attitude to new currency

    Oh no no, I will always have a GB£ account and will always welcome GB£ wherever i am. It does wear me out having to work out what I'm actually getting at the end of the day, as with the accessories, I buy them in EUR, sell them in GB£. The Irish Euros all have a harp on them, nothing different. Boring, you're right. There are yearly standards that have to be met for a country to stay in the Euro, so if Portugal, Germany or whoever suddenly had a massive recession they would be kicked out of the Euro make no mistake. That rule applies for every country except Germant and France it seems, who have failed to meet their budget for the 2nd or 3rd year running! (but if it was serious I bet we'd be straight back with a new D mark). I don't agree with you about the current coins being uninspired junk though, I think they are far more excting than other countries coins. The Britannia on the 50p can be traced back to Roman times, most of the coins feature intricate heraldic designs that are perhaps not done justice by the ever reducing sizes but by and large what am I talking about in this non coin related area???!!??? Anyone see Eastenders lately? Chris
  24. Thankyou Olli!! I still get bloody emails about it. I think i'll start ignoring them now. If people don't see the huge link on the top of the front page I will take no time in pointing them to it. Chris
  25. I think there is, in fact there are loads of variety clues so i've heard. You'd have to buy a special book just on the subject of Maria Theresa Talers. I have no idea.... And I don't even know if the book's in English. Sorry. Chris www.predecimal.com
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