Chris Perkins

Tell you what. Call it £6.30 total. Anyone seeing this can send £6.30 via paypal to cp@predecimal.com for a 2009 CCGB (with an obvious subject line). I'll also put together a newsletter with the new book as it's main feature, that always shifts a few.

A First post! I remember when we used to also get a second post, everyday.

Yes, just about to email it. If you want to send a further £7.30 I'll get a printed 2009 edition to you.

Send £3.50 via paypal to cp@predecimal.com with an obvious subject and I'll send it in an email.

The 2009 edition will reach the warehouse in a couple of days. I could probably organise a copy to Jersey within a week or so. Email me your address details and I'll put it with the others. 2008 is available as an e-book but it'll take a little while for the 2009 version.

It's copper and not really commemorative, it would have been made to provide small change at a time when regal coppers were thin on the ground. Google 'Conder Tokens' or regional tokens and you'll probably find lots of info on similar contemporaries.

I've sold them like that without a hole for £100 before so £90 is pretty outrageous. I was going to say £20 too.

Against the law to receive coins? As an EU state now I can't really understand a reason for that. I know that some countries don't let you take or send coins out (Turkey for example). Eastern Europe is always a bit risky, but I tell you what....Italy can be worse!

Why not, because they are likely to get stolen? I've sent things to your neighbour Latvia and never had a problem.

Yes I agree. Low grade 1946 and 1949 3d's are pretty common, as are 1952 sixpences. Low grade H pennies are incredibly common, more so than the KN's. 1926 ME pennies and even 1902 low tide pennies are much harder to find, but not impossible especially in lower grades. All are pretty damned rare in high grades!

They are all dated 1967 so are unfortunately scrap bronze. 1967 is a very common year and no one would want so many for more than the metal value. Sorry.

Someone has sealed those in. They will just have individual coin value for each.

I don't know exactly what you mean but as far as I know the RM didn't seal anything in plastic apart from the 1953 9 coin set.

What uncirculated rolls? I warn in CCGB that the mintage figures are per annum and not for a particular indicated date.

No, I doubt it very much. This looks like an accumulation rather than a collection. The odd commemorative coin, the odd medal but mostly stuff from circulation in the usual circulated condition. Good to see an old Collectors' Coin book among them! Obviously I can't see them all and there does appear to be some silver there, so not entirely valueless but most probably of pretty low value. That George III coin that you posted singularly looks look a forgery of a shilling. Doesn't make it valuable, just slightly more interesting.

Should be no problem to get one of these to you by then: http://www.predecimal.com/deluxe-safe-coin-album-p-49.html

When I first saw it I thought it was another post from a porno spam bot!

Avoid the new novelty rubbish on the Royal Mint website for a start! New issues are fine but they are most likely to fall in value over the next 20+ years. In fact they are pretty expensive. Also, in their hard plastic packs with special finishes they can't really be handled. Get my book and start with relatively modern pre-decimal coins (1950/60s). Or decide on a particular monarch and expand from there.

Those Roman coins do like nice, perhaps a little too nice as fake Roman coins are pretty common. The pictures aren't clear enough to tell. There are actually only 892 members, most of the dross gets cleared out but new members each get a unique number so even though members are deleted, their member numbers are not re-used. I don't think there's much I can do about that.

Those sodding spam bots were at it again; posting links to Trojan horses and posts containing pornographic images, adverts for viagra etc etc from Servers located in Latvia, Panama and the Netherlands (not usually spam bot countries). Somehow they'd managed to get around the registration security in the version of forum software I was using. This is something that none had managed to do for quite sometime. So I have updated the forum software. Existing users probably won't notice any differences but wanna-be registrants will be confronted with new security in order to become a member (relating to the jumbled text/numbers that you have to type in).

Sad but true, but there's probably more money involved in criminal spamming! Even though it is very unethical, especially if it exposes children to unsuitable images which would have happened if I'd not removed some previous posts very quickly indeed! And of course a lot of it is intended to expose computers to viruses in order to get hold of credit card etc info.

There was a missing 'n' but he inserted it retrospectively!

He wouldn't sell them to me (the owner of this forum, in case you hadn't realised) without putting them on ebay again for me to 'win' them. I told him to pop them in the post for a definite £41.40 (or however much it was) upon receipt, and that I wouldn't bid on them on ebay because it would be pointless and I have better things to do. In fact so far, including this message I'm writing, the whole thing has been a drag and they could be in the post by now, on their way! But no, there was no trust there so he's put them on ebay again starting at £25 this time. There is life outside ebay you know. Still plenty of reliable people that don't go back on their word. Good luck to you.

That's because he wants to sell them to me! I wish everyone was like that and offered everything to me before trying ebay!

No, they were made up by third parties usually in the 60s. Those were the days before the RM starting boxing up things for collectors, how marvelous that must have been!