Chris Perkins

I've re-calibrated, re-counted, re-synched the whole forum and have removed the server stored cache files and theoretically it should be fine now! At least, there should certainly be no more disappearing threads, but as for the confusion in the browser bar between predecimal.com/forum and british-coins.com/forum I'm still personally experiencing problems with that. Anyone else having similar issues? This could cause people to become logged out.

Oh, it all helps at the moment, believe me! Just managed to get a tenant into the Gillingham house as of yesterday. It was only empty for 15 months.

These don't need many words: http://www.predecimal.com/crown-1937-edward-viii-pair-models-p-20129.html

Do others see the odd  symbol in the title before the pound sign, or is it just me? http://www.predecimal.com/edward-viii-father-just-p-9058.html It's to do with character sets on the server. My hosts say it's fixed, by I'm not so sure.

And also at the top of the forum pages between a couple of the book images. See them there too? It's annoying. Those of you that also have large websites with large bandwidth, who do you use for hosting? The company I use were taken over a year or 2 ago and service levels have fallen (and the costs also seem very high).

The forum was down today. It was first brought to my attention on the predecimal.com facebook thingy. I had to run something or other and it seems to have fixed it. The something or other is still running in the background so it may be slow for a while!

My latest venture is to run around like a headless chicken frantically trying to get things a bit more organised and to find money that I don't have (mainly to do with the houses, due to the tenants in one of them wanting everything done and the other being tenantless but now on the market again. It took over a year to get it right)! Had bad flooding yesterday in Eastern Germany. We were actually cut off from the world until this morning. My car was at the garage next to a river and the phones were down so I couldn't get in touch with the mechanic that lives above. I also couldn't actually get to him either, despite it being less than 2 miles, not even in the old Range Rover. I phoned this morning and fortunately he'd had the foresight to move the car (my recently acquired 1972 Triumph 2000) to higher ground in the neighbours haulage yard. Everything is fine.

I need to host a picture in order to ebay the old RR. Have temporarily lost my FTP details so have to do it here!

Keep going, keep going!

Late in 2007 (possibly early 2008) a new edition of Check Your Change will be available. The first modern edition since the 1960s (published in 2007) sold very quickly, proving my incling that there would be enough interest in the current GB coinage to warrant a new edition of the book that - for so many, including Rotographic - started it all off!

Difficult to value. What else have you got? I once bought some things from the son of a man that was employed as a designer at the Royal Mint at about that time.

It's a 1951 crown reverse which was made by using a Victorian crown reverse. This is probably a stage from that process (Victorian die adjusted to remove the original date so that '1951' could be added). I imagine that's what it is!

Be hard to do. Coin dealers are mavericks by nature and often get a bit funny about sharing their wares with other dealers, even if the only sharing is a page of web results. Onlinecoins was good and I knew Andy too, but obviously it doesn't seem to have worked. The google search thing isn't a bad idea though. Surely lots of specific coins can be found that way, many of which are on dealers websites and on offer?

In the first image it looks very much like an electrotype. Does it appear to be 2 halves stuck together? I have a couple of really nice looking 'Greek' coins that are fairly modern electrotypes.

300 Americans? I thought slavery was illegal everywhere by now

Yes, I could be up for those.

What I find most interesting is that in the past things like that simply got spent and circulated. No one cared, coins were (and are) simply a convenient form of exchange. It didn't matter what it looked like - the purchasing power of a halfpenny was always of greater significance. Nowadays anything with a slight blob on it ends up on ebay within about 8 seconds, with a starting price of £50!

Or here Dave!: Boxes of 10 Boxes of 100 The Lindner capsules are certainly like the top type with the lip on both edges. Lighthouse, Lindner and Safe (the main German manufacturers) all supply capsules with the lip. I don't know where the others come from.

My friend Richard in Bexley recently sold a largeish collection of Numismatic books to a London based Numismatic book dealer. Quick and easy and a fair price, but I think even he needed a list! I can't remember who the book dealer was, but Richard can be asked via his website www.coinsforsale.co.uk

Oh sorry, yes, it looks like you were removed in error. Having a gmail email account didn't help as 80% of the spammers also have gmail accounts. How many posts had you made before? I can certainly bump your post number up if it makes you feel better.

You lot seem to be having such fun with Marina, so instead of just pulling the plug I've removed the link and email/skype and also banned 'her'. Clearly an automated bot thing. The pic loads wrong (at the most interesting part, some would say) deliberately to encourage the viewer to click on the now removed link which wasn't really 'Added later'.

Hello Peter. 1) I'm still in the process of preparing the house. It has a new kitchen now, plus new windows and external doors. Some decorating also done, but still a lot to do plus other bits e.g. some plumbing in the bathroom and the lounge needs a new floor. 2) I still have my 400+ forgeries but the houses have priority at the moment. 3) Hopefully by the end of this year. The houses are draining resources, time, my last nerve. 4) I'll probably stretch back a little over time, but am keen to keep CCGB the number 1 paperback for GB coins that most people want to know about, and those are pretty much nearly always GIII and later. Adding pages increases printing costs and therefore the price of the book. We'll see.

No! 'Most collectable' is a tough one because what people collect is subjective. Rarest is probably that Olympic swimmer 50p with the lines on the face that was withdrawn, or was just the Royal Mint being sloppy. As the public aren't aware of it though, it's not generally collected like the dateless 20p was.

I got this with some other bits. There is a piece of paper with it detailing the Middleham Hoard found it 1993. It was over 5000 coins totalling over £300 face value, which must have been an obscene amount of money in 1647. This shilling is one of those coins (although impossible to prove), Spink 2799, MM is a triangle in a circle. In case he wants it, Tom Goodheart gets first pop!