Chris Perkins

Late last year I bought a couple of collections which provided me with good stock for a little while. I've now sold most of them and some of the denominations for sale on predecimal.com look very empty indeed. So, this is an appeal to all forum members with any spare collectable British coins. You know the sort of things I like best - 1797 to 1967, but also older milled coins and British colonial as well as some German coins. If you have any doubles or coins from collecting areas which you no longer wish to persue, please let me know. I always pay a fair proportion of how I price the coins and you'll even see them for sale too...all very transparent and I know that lots of members have already sold coins to me in the past.

I had a friend who saved all the Florins in the 80s when they were still used as 10p. He had loads, and they were all well circulated and just worth 10p, but he was proud of them. His younger brother nicked them and bought some DJ decks!

As usual, all the stuff with any potential goes onto ebay and get scattered about. What a shame. I can also obtain Silver maples and other new silver bullion coins. We could have swapped!

I buy coins, preferably whole collections of them. Let me know if you'd like to sell them all to me! Actually I'm very low on stock and shall be putting an appeal in the forum for doubles/spares etc soon.

I don't think even the over commercialist Royal Mint with their many obscure and needless commemorative issues could match the bland meaningless Euro coinage!

Can you post a picture? This is about how a perfect one should look like (apart from this one being 1924):

Maybe the Welsh will adopt the Euro!

Excellent designs! Can you also copy actual coins and end up with high res tiff files that look like that? That kind of thing might be something useful for my books when no actual photograph can be obtained (e.g. for my Irish coin book). I have a feeling the designs will be stylised and will take up the whole space, rather like the the current Act of Union £2 coin.

They don't sound that radical do they! I expect they'll probably give them a modern twist and make them look like cartoons or something.

There were half a dozen frantic posts containing different snippets of text and images about this one coin! I've deleted the useless parts and merged the important parts. You can reply to yourself in your own topics, there's no need to create a new one each time.

It's a forgery which would have been silvered when new. Brass GeoIII halfcrown forgeries are pretty common.

Hmmm, I notice that Tony Clayton has started linking to a stamp dealer (that like so many stamp dealers, seem to want to dabble in coins too). That's odd, I emailed him in the past and he never even replied! I'd happily pay for a presence on his well ranked pages. Does anyone know Tony Clayton? Sorry to change the subject slightly. I also offer free UK coin pricing in the form of the ebook version of Collectors' Coins GB 2005, which is linked to as a PDF from near the bottom of http://www.rotographic.com

I expect it's the latter! How much was it?

They don't exist I'm afraid. I've been thinking about getting some printed for a while actually! I can help for the Euro coins though, Lighthouse do a range of pages and albums for Euros. If you go to the homepage, download the Lighthouse PDF, they are in there. Then you can search by catalogue number and purchase them (or email me).

I have a £100 face value bag of 1965S, all as new. I've sold a few hundred but have loads and loads left if they are any good?

I have about 40. I've been through them all and can tell no differences between the R, C or H's! And I don't think any of them would make MS65. Sir Winston's manly forehead on the eyebrow and his slightly sagging cheek around the mouth area are all bashed about. Not always obvously when you look at first. And there are usually scratchs in the large fields on either side of Her Maj.

Yes, I would have thought so. They are a big chunk of 75% copper. Or even just as Cu-Ni there contain enough metal to make 3.5 fifty pees.

I'd better have a look at the little pile I've got then. Usually I can't bear looking at them for too long, but this needs investigation.

Oh you must be joking! There's not seriously a Churchill Crown variety!? Can anyone post a picture of the 2 different types, as I'd be interested to put it in Collectors' Coins GB 2009.

Unless my eyes are deceiving me there is something there. What is it then?

That'll never make MS65 with that massive deep scar on Her Maj!

Or, even better, the 2005 edition of my Collectors' Coins GB is in the public domain, at the bottom part of this page: http://www.rotographic.com/ Is a link with the name Collectors' Coins Great Britain 2005. That is the book as a PDF file. The 2008 edition is now available as a printed book, but it isn't free!

I've probably got over 40, but like you say, they're usually a bit battered. Most of them came in rolls and regardless of what way around the coins were, they always seem to rub each other! I'll have a look for a really special one.

Before 1860 they were copper (quite high purity I believe but obviously not 100% pure). After 1860 they were made of bronze. 1860 to 1923 they were 95% copper, 4% tin and 1% zinc with slight variations. From 1923 to 1942 the composition was fixed at 95.5% copper, 3% tin and 1.5% zinc. 1942 to 1945 they were 97% copper, 0.5% tin and 2.5% zinc. In 1945 they reverted to the pre 1942 composition and in 1959 they switched to the 1942 to 1945 composition, which was used right into decimalisation. (Source: The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain, Michael J Freeman)

Even under those circumstances I wouldn't link to them. I'd only link to them if they stop behaving like 'Westminster Collection' and start behaving like the Royal Mint again.