Chris Perkins

Mir geht es gut. Du kannst mich schon Du-sen! Ich habe nie lust allem mit Sie und Ihn anzusprechen!

Thanks, good to know. Just wish I had some more coins to grade and sell! Actually, that's a fib. I do have coins and generally I can source them. My main prob is finding the time to scan and list them.

Funny how German seems to be the 2nd language of the forum.

It would be impossible for it to be struck like that because the silver part is inserted to the brass ring before the design is struck, as far as I'm aware. I think it is possible with the right machinery to actually push out the centre part, so perhaps someone has pushed it out, then pushed it back in again the wrong way round, just for fun.

The silly prices are clearly shill bidding in action, just to make them look more special than they are. Last year they were certainly going for up to £300. I haven't looked for a while, but I remember the odd one going for £60.00 a short while ago. I'd pay £60 or perhaps a bit more for a pristine example. One that circulated for a year is unlikely to be good enough. Can you get any sharper pictures of it? A scan maybe?

And what are they going for on ebay at the moment?

Humbrol enamel by brush is fine, a car touch-up paint, or something similar. Difficult to spray because you'd have to mask the other side. The Chrome parts stay exactly as they are because they're deeper. Was all the rage to change the colours of your Ford badges when I was your age (which is only 12 years ago)! I never had a Ford though, as I liked to be different. The date on the coin is under the King's head. They are often very worn but it can only be 1806 or 1807. 1807 is a little harder to find than 1806.

When (roughly) did you pull it out of change? It doesn't look too bad, I've certainly seen worse examples. I'd like a really top BU example with hardly any bag marks. I have 2 already and both are good but neither is perfect.

Yes, that's the scarcer one. What about a nice big pic of the whole coin so we can assess grade.

No, that was wrong! I meant common with the JEB right off the Truncation! There isn't one with no JEB.

Perfectly normal and very common George III halfpenny of 1806 or 1807. Not worth more than £1 in that condition. You know you can sand down the back of that Ford badge and then paint it another colour? They look great in red.

No, the withdrawn type is very common (without JEB). I think probably more common than the 'SIX PENCE' type.

You mean 'Numismatist' azda. I'm not so sure that one of those in Germany would be much help. If it were mine, I'd keep in and take a chance that it's either a very good quality contemp, or a genuine error.

Done that! I asked IPB to upgrade me to the newest version (which works until the spammers find a new way to get around it) and enroll me for the Spam Monitor thing mentioned in your link.

What if it's actually got all it's thin silver layer intact? Must be possible. Or, the modern theory is also entirely plausible because dies probably get made and then go to some other Chinaman to strike. He can't possibly know the alignments for all coins and may have just guessed based on his knowledge of US coins which are forged a lot and mostly have 180 alignment.

Post the pics in this thread azda (no one in the world can be bothered to cross reference things these days) Look at the dots between the words on the garter. Weakly struck. And the horizontal and vertical 'shading' in the shield and garter is also wishy-washy in places. And of course there's the die axis being wrong, which of course could be an error. If it is a fake, it's a very good one and if comtemporary to 1818 then it's the best fake I've seen. Tough one that. I have an 1819 on the website and the dots and lines are very strong.

Wow, same thread, exactly 4 years later! This is the Happy birthday TomGoodheart thread.

Yes, and another similar one. And some others from the last 2 weeks that looked like they were up to no good!

No, this message was most certainly spam. They always seem to find ways of getting round preventions don't they. It's no doubt an automated process and not a real person at all. NOT NOT CLICK ON THE LINK! I've just send messages to every user to warn them. And I have of course deleted the member. I'll also look and see if there's a way the personal messanger can be disabled for new users.

I don't usually blow my own trumpet here, but I simply had to post this message received yesterday from a customer: May I take this opportunity to say that I have received orders from three separate dealers since starting collecting in November. I can categorically say that your grading of the coins is definitely the most accurate (in my amateur and humble opinion). When you say it is BU I have every confidence that it will be BU (and not a scratched UNC). Once again thank you and assuring you of my continued custom for many years to come.

You can't buy that blind. With all those problems listed and the wonders of coin dealer understatement, you simply have to see pictures.

Forgery. Not only is it an impossible coin, but it's also weakly struck, has badly formed letters and other slight give-aways. I wonder if it may be contemporary copy, or something a little older.

You won't have any problems with this very website! I am also mostly abroad (in Germany) but the exchange rate has no effect on coins because the vast majority I source from the UK. I buy them in GBP and sell them in GBP. Postage is also in some cases cheaper when I send things from here compared to within the UK. It's usually very quick and higher value items can also be properly insured.

No, not this time, but probably about the same size. We'll talk over email, the whole world doesn't need to know my business.

Different teeth that are beads! That's a new one. How long are your visitor spaces azda? I don't mess around with little cars!