Chris Perkins

I got a reply (see the listing) to say that it was stated in the listing that it's a modern pattern. But it clearly isn't, the coin is even listed in the 'era' of the early milled pre-Victoria. I have told them that and also asked again to clarify what .999 bronze could possibly be. This seller is unprofessional and ill informed at the very least. At most they are dishonest and intentionally deceptive! I would certainly never buy anything from them.

And it's .999 silver, which is very odd because the RM had never used .999 silver back then! I wonder if the seller had it assayed properly and if it's been authenticated by someone who knows what they're talking about? I doubt it and suspect it's a plated penny! I have seen Saxbys Collectable before and thought they were quite reputable. This has changed my mind. I sent a message regarding the '1808' coin to say that it should be marked as a modern pattern and asking exactly what .999 bronze is.

Or "I'll be back" to quote an Austrian! I like that old German script, some of the signs are still written like that around here....the local museum and the little village voluntary fire station.

And how can something be .999 pure bronze, when bronze itself is an alloy of at least 3 different metals in varying quantities!? That's an attractive coin, but it is very misleading that the seller doesn't mention it's a modern pattern.

It's one of those things that quite possible is real, but that you'd not want to risk £50 on unless it was a known reputable coin dealer selling it, or had some kind of paperwork with it from the Royal Mint or a reputable coin dealer! And if it is real it's not a 'trial' coin but rather an error coin struck on the wrong metal.

Bingen on Rein is a town not a state. And as far as I know it was part of Germany before and after WWI, so not disputed territory or lost after the Versaille treaty.

It says that it's "small change replacement mark"....which I would translate to a token rather that a Notgeld issue. I've never seen one. Perhaps an amusement token or something like that?

I sell them for about £12 in the boxes and can buy them all day long on ebay for £5-£7. It's a crown by the way (as the paper certificate should state). It contains no actual silver.

I've met a couple of members at coins fairs. We are mostly quite spread out though.

I can answer any question. Whether the answer is complete nonsense or not, is for you to decide!

Were any of the coins silver? I long to find something made of a precious metal just so I can be satisfied that I saved it from slowing turning back to dirt over the next few thousand years!

Here's an interesting screen shot listing the attempted forum registrants from the 23rd May until about midday on the 26th May. This forum does seem to be very popular with Russians! There's also an Iraqi registrant :s I emailed the one on the bottom to confirm that he/she had a genuine interest in coins. Never got a reply, but a day later he/she tried to register again with a different ID! In case any of them are real, I've hidden the email addresses. But, I doubt that very much, they are most probably all automated attempts to gain membership with the intention of spamming about porn, medications and gambling. I think I may as well delete all the @mail.ru account from now on without even asking!

I've got a detector and have found some coins with it! Only crappy old East German pfennig made out of aluminium, but coins nonetheless. If also found a part of a bomb (in England) and old spoons, tools, a badge, a horsebrass and bits of lead etc. It doesn't really matter what you find, it's nice to go out and get a bit of fresh air. A useful tip though, if you do try it make sure you have a handheld pinpoint device to find small treasures in clumps of dirt after the detector has done its bit. Withoug a pinpointer you can waste hours of a day looking in holes when you've dug out the metal object and it's stuck to your spade!

Best to just not let them in. From a Russian server (or Chinese, Korean and certain other Eastern lands) the chances are they just want to spam. If anyone really wants to join and gets blocked for some reason, they will find me.

There probably is some kind of mathematic formula which may fairly accurately allow you to increase the values for each coin type in each grade. And, also something similar for the inbetween grades. If there is, I'm not clever enough to have worked it out yet, so I do the values manually based on printed sales lists etc. For inbetween grades you just have to be instinctive and put the value in the middle somewhere, judging on eye appeal and how far away it is from the next full grade etc.

Are you really. Scottish Money is a Russia fan and we have a Russian member too but he hasn't posted for a while. I think all those registration attempts were hackers/bots. The system is more secure now and I don't have to intervene so much.

Getting into complicated lingual issues now! Surely in most parts of rural England in the 13th century the proles spoke some kind of early English dialect which probably still had a lot of Saxon/German influence but was basically different enough from German to be called English? Of course in Scotland, Wales and Cornwall that probably wouldn't have been the case. They had their very own Celtic/Pict/Gaelic tongues. And in Wales, just about still do. French and Latin were certainly the languages used by the Church and by the upper classes but as far as I know some form of English certainly existed back then and probably had done since the Anglo-Saxon period. I like to tell everyone here (without sounding too Right-Wing!) that I am the only true Anglo-Saxon because I'm English and live in Saxony, a Saxon-Anglo-Saxon if you like. I even know some Saxon words that not even Herr Stechlin would understand!

I meant a tenner for your South African 'Iron Cross'! If they're all boring average 20th century halfpennies then you can keep them.

Probably not as I don't think they are real silver. Could be wrong. Obviously if it contains some silver it'll be worth a little more than the brass one.

That's exactly how the Germans speak!! All round the wrong way and as if what they say hasn't changed in format much since the 1500s! Apart from those people that annoyingly drop in English words wherever they can to sound cool, which to me as an Englander sounds bloody stupid because they don't even pronounce them properly and if you're going to steal words you could at least do it properly. For example, you may hear on the German equivalent of Neighbours, one of the youngsters when pondering over his friends love for a distant cousin, that he doesn't yet know is actually his half sister, say: 'Nein Tim (the young people mostly have English names that were popular in GB up to about 1983) das ist ein no go'. Isn't that right my German friend? Ich weiss beschied.

It looks like it's been made by someone from a South African coin. With any writing smoothed off. It also looks very German in shape, I don't know the significance of that. I'm quite keen on ZAR things and have some Boer war related items and a document signed by president Kruger. One of my customers is also a great great grand nephew of the president of the Orange Free State! I'll give you a tenner for it (to keep).

Exactly right! Well probably better as 'I wish you well from the Ore Mountains'. The Ore Mountains is where I live and it was the largest known deposit of silver in the world until the Spanish found some in South America.

Yes, it could hopefully be one of those books that every collector of British coins (mainly later milled of course) will want to have as a comparison and big help for novices.

Yes it will be a hardback (about same size as Spink). I haven't created the part on rotographic.com about this book. I've actually only sent out about 10 flyers with orders so far, as they're new. Another little something to do in-between putting together CCGB2009! The exact publication date isn't really know because I want to get it checked by regular dealers and the BNTA first in order to reach some kind of accurate concensus. It's on Amazon with a pub date in February, but I can put that back if I need to, it depends how many people check it and how they take etc. Also, special care needs to be taken to make sure that the images come out ok, because with bad images it'll be a bad book! The author is actually the forum member Red Riley and he's worked very hard. I'll no doubt mention it on the forum from time to time and make an announcement when it's done and deliverable.

I know, but don't forget that regardless how good or bad the product is, someone (or more than someone) probably spent a long time creating it, and usually these things are not that expensive from the creators.