Chris Perkins

Sent your order today. I was in England until Tuesday. That's an interesting 6d. I'd certainly sell it for a bit more than normal, but I wouldn't have though it would make it significantly valuable. When are you going to sell me any coins you have and don't need?!

Unless you have decent capital it's very difficult. I am self sufficient in 'coins' but couldn't survive on just the coins themselves (mainly because sourcing them is hard where I am), hence I publish a range of books and sell a good number of accessories. All coin related, but still not all that easy and very much a full time job for all the daylight hours at least!

Copy cat! I did a very similar thing and gave away 1966 halfpennies on the front on my 2008 Collector's Coins. I had to source over 7000 of them. I still have a couple of thousand and could send you a few hundred for the cost of posting. You'll probably need little envelopes too, so that the coins can be stuck on without actually sticking the coin. I can supply those too.

Things do sometimes slip through! Post a picture for us to verify the grade and variety.

I suspected it was something that had been sensationalised to make it sound more drastic than it is, as is often the case. There probably is a real risk for expensive ancient items with a dubious past, but I shouldn't imagine they will be going door to door or even to known collectors. I'd like to hear details about exactly what has been seized so far and from where it comes. Also if another country has to point the German authorities to a suspicious person before they do anything. I'm off to England tomorrow for about a week. I'll make an effort to understand this more when I get back.

Just like with modern £1 coins, the edges can be either way up with the lettering starting at any position. It just depends which way round the collars were when the coin was struck. For the 1668 inverted 'error' a section of the collar (I believe they were mostly 3 parts, perhaps more) was around the wrong way so that part of the legend would have been upside down and the whole thing would have made no sense.

Not much more than the bullion value I would have thought.

No I've not heard this, where's Stechlin???? It does sound a bit alarmist. If it's in any way true I may have to hide some things!

I've got 10 proof ring-bound copies that I picked up from the printers on Friday. These will be shown to Derek on the 14th at the London coin fair and will be given to a few select dealers for the final check. I'm also waiting to hear from the BNTA about some kind of approval. Not essential though as many of the dealers that will get proof copies will probably be members and regardless of if the BNTA give some kind of approval or not, I will be confident that the standards shown in the book will be accurate!

I'm just going to make this clear for all the people looking at this and realising that they have a 1909 penny (or multiples of 1909 pennies) and then wanting to contact me thinking that all 1909 pennies are very rare! The one illustrated here is a rarer type known as F169. The vast majority of 1909 pennies are incredibly common, as are all Edward VII pennies in fact!

I'm quite sure I've got the William IV version of that somewhere, oe had it at some stage. No doubt they are rare, but like Dg says, the demand is what dictates the value, not the rarity. ANd that type of brass medalet are quite undercollected.

They may work for you, depending on how your browser is setup. You type in medalsforsale or trade, or whatever it is and it may well default to the nearest website matching that. For the rest of the world it's gets us absolutely no where! For me it defaults to a google search and says 'did you mean 'Medals for trade'. It presents 2 website results, neither of which appear to be the one you're referring to! We need a proper URL, something which starts http:// or even www. will probably do. This website is perfectly easy to use and we are taking your request seriously but none of us have time for a wild goose chase trying to find the right website from a few joined up words.

In short, no. 10,000 is far too many. Don't touch modern coins with higher than 1000 mintage. If you want to invest in gold, buy bullion sovereigns at up to 10% or 15% over Bullion. And a Quarter Sovereign, what on earth is a Quarter Sovereign!!?? 5 Shillings, so that makes it a crown doesn't it? Normally a silver coin. The RM have invented a new denomination priced around the price a sovereign would have been a couple of years ago just so that more people can afford them and so that they can sell small amounts of gold for way way over it's actual value.

That would work for shillings with the three lions on, but ship halfpennies.....more effort than it's worth.

The whole thing should be 4cm or a little larger? The mount is probably only a few grammes and is probably 9ct if it is gold. In which case the value may well be less than £30. The coin is very worn and normally I sell crowns in that condition without the added gold plating for around £20.

My earliest Krause is the 1800-1900 one!

I think he meant 3.5cm including the mount? In which case it's most likely a gold £2 coin, or at least meant to be one. Lots of GIII replica £2 coins seem to have been made for the jellewery trade...I've got one in my collection of fakes. I think it was probably made with the mount and the style is very different to a real one. I suspect we'll need to see a picture.

Most importantly, in poor-fair the H wears away, so it's most probably an 1882H.

At an angle sometimes looks better doesn't it. Fabulous error that. And you're going to be auctioning it soon?

If it's been circulated it's worth £2 and is perfectly legal tender as such.

I've done a bit of geneology too. Got my Perkins ancestors back to about 1750 (all in London) then it goes a bit patchy. That little Pfenning is certainy 'in German' so is most probably German, not that Germany existed as one united nation back then. A Stadt is a town and a münz is a coin. The town is no doubt represented by the coat of arms on the other side, but I don't know which it is. Lots and lots of towns, dukedoms, principalities etc all issued there own little coins back then and it makes it all very complicated. The vast majority of the lower copper denominations are of negligble value. Please do contact me when you are selling any coins (mainly British but I'm also not fussed about nice Europeans).

No we don't. We just know it from the film of the same name with Bill Murray! The Ground Hog is not a native of those isles (i'm in Germany). I'm all for having a Hedgehog Day though! Somewhere in the forum, in the non coin area is a picture of Igor, a hedgehog that we found and cared for for a few months. Sounds like an interesting collection. Is it for sale? Recently I have purchased a collection from the USA ($800 worth). It all went very smoothly.

There should be a significant different in diameter.... about 2cm for the sixpence and 2.5cm for a shilling (not hugely different from the modern shilling/sixpence). It is possible that one of them was struck on a small flan? Or that both are sixpences! Can you trust that the seller knew what they were selling? Post pictures if you like.

Isn't that word doc just a blown up version of the other image? It's still not clear. It could be a real one, or a silvered base metal forgery. Usually the George III 2nd head (1817-20) are the ones that were most extensively forged. I don't think I've seen a forgery for the Geo IV 1820 coin, probably because the forgers would have carried on circulating the old type. Chances are high it's a real one but the jury is out.

I believe the blanks are hardened, perhaps it missed that stage. Or some other stage. Please post a picture.