Chris Perkins

You'll have to arrange an appointment with the BM, convincing them first that you're a genuine numismatist before they'll show you round and let you see specific things. It's not too difficult though.

That's interesting. I didn't know Krause did such a thing. They seem to be following Rotographic's lead in offering their books as ebooks, with the major difference that the Krause series would be too large to offer as a download so it has to be offered on DVD. It looks like a fair enough price especially with the weak dollar. As long as you can live with the odd omission and error here and there.

Which, I may add is an island with 80 families and no more than 7 different surnames. I had someone contact me with a Queens birthday crown and he wondered why he couldn't sell it. It was silver but had been gold plated and had rubies stuck to it! He thought it was British but the giveaway was the 'TDC FIVE POUNDS' in the legend. AVIOD ALL LONDON MINT ITEMS, they just sell non collectable worthless junk. They are not in any way connected to the Royal mint, much as they like to pretend they are.

Yes, £70 is pretty fair, I wouldn't offer much more unless everything was as new with attractive tone matched coins and a perfect box. My dad was born in 1950 too. Actually what an excellent idea for his next birthday! I'll match the £70 and pay your postage!

Interesting poll ginger, but does it really have much of a point? Is this not something for the ebay laughs thread where we often point out unrealistic and pointless ebay listings?

Low issue numbers are relative. You have to ask yourself if 100 people really could not live without a 1993 Cayman Islands gold proof 250 dollar coin for example? There may be some people that wouldn't mind such a coin, but the chances are you'd have a hard job finding 100 people willing to give you more than gold value (plus say 5%) for it. And without that demand, the value stays low. Perhaps in 50 years it'll be different, but then in 50 years gold should theoretically be a bit higher too. The UK coin would probably be of higher value if there were only 100 of them, but they made 2500 so again, are there 2500 people that really really want that particular coin? Enough to pay even £50 or £100 over gold value I mean. Regarding sovereigns I may well be interested. You'll see I've listed some gold coins here: http://www.predecimal.com/coins-sale-gold-items-c-51_88.html So I could do with some more, preferrably Geo V or earlier and higher grades if you have any that fit that description. I also work with a pretty well known UK gold coin dealer. Perhaps you could PM me with details.

Why don't we ask Aidan what term he would use! Long term members will remember Eliza, I beleive she worked in a library in a US university so had access to interesting info....I scared off and she never came back. All I did was ask if she was a lesbian when I found out after sending something to her that she lived with another female. She obviously was but hadn't come to terms with it. Anyway, all are welcome regardless of sexuality, race etc. There are even some pretty old codgers on here, the kind that only B & Q will employ these days

There are collections, and there are collections! People confuse 'accumulations' with 'collections'. I have a few mins so I'll try to explain what I see as the difference. EXAMPLE 1: A collection of British silver could be all the coins issued by the 'Westminster Collection' since 1997 (I generally remind people at this point that the so called Westminster Collection are nowhere near Westminster and that the 'London Mint Office' much as they try to make you think otherwise, are nothing to do with the Royal Mint). Such a 'collection' will just include new coins, all shiny, all in capsules or special packaging. Such an accumulation requires no talent, no searching, you just send your hard earned cash away and in return you get something that in your lifetime your unlikely to be able to sell for what you paid for it! Example 1, is what I would call an accumulation and is usually put together by people trying to speculate. EXAMPLE 2: A collection could be 25kg of coins taken out of circulation in the 60s. All worn and worth scrap value. The scrap value may be significant but it doesn't really make it of much interest to a coin collector. Again, no skill involved. Lots of people heard about 'H' date pennies so they kept stacks of them before decimal pennies came along. Often there are collectable coins in such accumulations, but mostly it takes more time sorting them that the collectable ones are worth. Example 2 is also an accumulation and I bet that such accumulators were also speculative (i.e. the accumulators thought that the coins may be worth something one day). EXAMPLE 3: A 'proper collection' i.e a carefully selected range of coins chosen because of something significant about them, be it date, condition, type or just something that took the collectors eye. Such a collection is usually sorted into some kind of order and can be worth just a few pounds or hundreds of thousands of pounds, but such a collection is so much more than the 2 types of accumulations mentioned above. The collector's personality and determination are measured by the collection and the financial worth is always a secondary concern. The collection is of highest importance and great pleasure is gained in the quest to add to the collection. Unfortunately, 99% of the people that offer me coins to buy fall into EXAMPLES 1 and 2! That reminds me....has anyone got any coins to sell me? You know what I like best, Geo III up to Geo VI in better than average conditions (i.e. the collectable grades). Anyone with doubles? I'm so low after good sales in the past month or so.

I like the term British Foreign best! Hello silver, nice to have a girl here. In the past I've scared some girl members away (at least 1, probably 2!), hopefully I'll not do so in your case.

If they were mine I'd take gold value for them, with gold being so high at the moment. A couple of the less obscure ones (e.g the UK one and the NZ one) may be easier to sell for a bit more than bullion, but in my opinion it's not worth the bother and the wait. You'd have no trouble finding someone to give you bullion value for them in an hour or less.

I don't think there are enough serious collectors of each denomination to warrant that. Many members here also collect more than one denomination and I like to think they enjoy butting in on most subjects!

Another German made item of toy money. A miniature copy of the real thing, but not in gold. There was another enquiry about one of these a couple of days ago.

Where? I can't see one. I have over 3600 feedback and they've earned thousands out of me as fees, and they don't want to know!

Hello Joe. Are you having probs? You never seem to write anything new, you just quote what others have said.

Yes, I take full responsibility for all the spelling mistakes!

Hmmm, I have in the past sold high volumes in the form of coins and I've also even bought the odd car on ebay. They never gave me a phone number! I just get the email morons. Had they given me a phone number I would have no doubt continued to sell higher value items on ebay. I think the lack of support with ebay is the biggest turn off. Even the fees don't bother me compared to the support aspect. Oh and the totalitarian way they rip your listing off in a flash without warning or asking nicely if you can change something.

What, do they have a phone number?? In the past when I've emailed them I've just received copied chunks from their User Agreement, which is usually useless when you have a specific problem (for example when they banned me for selling my own ebooks!). When a real person responds I have often felt that English wasn't their first language.

I like the coin of ABBA! Though they are Anglo-Saxon, there's definitely a Scandinavian influence there.

Well if you dug them up then the chances are good! No doubt someone else will be along soon that knows the Ango-Saxon period better.

They look a bit too nice, are they real? I thought I could notice the tell-tale sign of a couple of them being 2 thin coins stuck together, i.e. electrotypes.

Hello Andrew. Yes, that's normal for that coin.

That's one of the disadvantages of not being able to see the user IDs anymore (due to fraudulent Far Eastern 2nd chance offers). Only ebay can now tell if people are Shill bidding, and of course they probably don't give a hoot because they get their fees regardless, in fact if people bid their own items up unsuccessfully, ebay get even more fees. Have you seen the notices now that listings in some categories can only be paid for with paypal and nothing else?! Ebay own paypal of course and have long since been doing everything they can to promote paypal as the ONLY and 'preferred' method of payment for ebay items....but I don't suppose that breaks any monopoly rules as online and crossborder laws are usually stuck in the era from which Geordie posseses the most coins! In a couple of years will paypal be forced as the only payment method on everything I wonder?

Shill bidding is when you bid on your own things with a 2nd ID or get a friend to bid on your things with no intention of ever buying them in order to inflate the price artificially. i.e. if those bids up to over £100 are fakes and some plonker comes along, re-assured by the current level and wins it for £103, then the seller suceeds in selling a £3 coin for a heart wrenching price.

Bloody hell! I sell them like that for £3. And I'd scrub it up FOC if so desired! I hope that's Shill Bidding. If it isn't there should be a lot of people in need of the forthcoming Rotographic British coin grading guide.

No, I didn't deliver any personally. I was supposed to deliver a book, but forgot to take it with! But, had my bonnet not tore off my car while travelling at 70mph and had the police not stopped me for speeding on the way to the airport (in a hire car) then I wouldn't have missed my flight and I wouldn't have had to stay an extra day. Had I not stayed an extra day, I wouldn't have bought lots of .500 scrap silver from a man in Enfield and I wouldn't have made a nice little profit to cover some of my car related expenses over Christmas! Funny how things work out.