Chris Perkins

The same from me.

Oh right. But you did say above "with the I of Elizabeth pointing further to the right of the corner".

The one in the picture has a spot next to the 'T' but apart from that is nice, prooflike in fact: http://www.predecimal.com/threepence-1953-chunc-p-7132.html

Only in higher grades though, no one would want a Fine 1957S even though in true UNC they aren't that common. I find that I simply cannot sell anything from the 40s/50s without it being UNC or preferably BU. I thought there was a loophole something along the lines of it only being illegal to melt down current coins, hence the melting of pre 47 silver and pre 1970 Cu-Ni should be completely legal.

Bent, holed, completely flat etc doesn't matter at all for bullion coins. What else I always need (generalising) is BU 1940s and 50s coins, UNC 1930s coins and at least GEF 1920s coins. Gold coins always welcome and as are special/unusual coins like Wreath crowns. Anything older than 1920 should be at least VF usually (a few exeptions, e.g. 1905 shillings and most Edward VII is collectable in Fine). Fine is often acceptable for Victorian and older. You can email me at cp@predecimal.com Where are you? I could possibly arrange collection if you're not too far.

Any that are like new (really really perfect) should be kept. I imagine the vast majority, most likely all of them, will be face value fodder.

I've given this poster the details of Mr Lutt in Bedford who buys huge amounts of average circulated predecimal currency. The chance of anything being in there with any significant value is very low.

I bought a load of pre '47 silver yesterday. Paid 7x face, which would be about £440 for 500 half crowns I believe. It was mostly florins and shillings and came to £1080. I had to leave them in the UK though as it would have been far too heavy for Ryanair baggage allowance! I'd offer £440 plus your postage costs within the UK if you want to save ebay fuss.

I was in England over Christmas actually. It was an interesting trip with a very expensive begininng and end. I'll probably put more details in the non coin part as it wasn't really anything to do with coins.

I'm confused too! Can somone now list the 1911 varieties properly, and numbered from 1 - 4 or however many there are!

That looks fabulous doesn't it! Who can put a value on it when no one has recorded it? Spink would just guess, like I would guess. That kind of coin would be good for an auction because then the bidders would decide. I'd offer hard cash for it right here though!

Good point, I'd not thought that far ahead! ;-) I'm trying to find a company that can convert it into all popular ebook formats, not just PDF. This is harder than I thought as no one seems to answer me! So, it won't be available as a PDF until 2008. If you wanted a simple PDF with no bookmarks I could probably create that....£3.50 as usual. PM me.

Ah so this is another name for the hollow neck variety. I'm not sure why I removed that. Probably because I wasn't convinced by the 'hollow neck' description and that such a description could lead to confusion. I'll certainly put it back now, with a better description.

Right Geordie. It's much easier to sell a few thousand books per year compared to selling a few thousand magazines per month! WHS are not the easiest people to deal with, but there are specialist magazine distributors, unlike for books. Very difficult business.

That's if the members here would be able/willing to add something on a regular basis, which can be difficult with other comitments. I have no idea how one launches a regular magazine, and already have enough to do with the books! If someone wants to investigate properly (how to publish a magazine etc), I'm all ears. I already have a very good printer for the job.

It certainly isn't, and the seller fees for £400 are also more than £1, so no one acheives anything! A complete waste of space, like the vast majority of coins listed for sale on ebay. That's ebay's downfall and the reason that I don't usually bother looking for coins. Far too much badly graded, ill described utter toot.

New coins are all very well and obviously important for the world mints because they no doubt make a good profit on them and they therefore love to have them featured in magazines. But, most collectors are mainly interested in older coins (for UK coins that probably means pre Elizabeth II at least, and many collectors don't even touch milled!) In fact I don't know any serious collectors that even give modern issues a second glace, because they are targeted at so-called-collectors (always novices) and have very low residual values. I've seen the kind of German magazine that you refer to and I thought it was far too businessy, rather like a magazine for economists and investors than for collectors. I've not really paid much attention to them though because I'm not really interested in German coins and am even less interested in Euro coins. Surely German collectors would rather have something about older German coins, not just pre Euro but perhaps even pre WWI at least? I like the older Royal states German coinage, but with all the different Kings issuing coins it's far too complicated for its own good.

Clearly the seller has a number of IDs and has bid on it themselves for a laugh. Or, has asked friends to bid it up to that ridiculous level.

The pictures were very small Aprilia, but from what I could see, I wouldn't get your hopes up. It looks like the usual accumulation of the odd GIII copper mixed with mostly later copper and bronze, all of which looks to be quite worn. Try to link to larger pictures if you can and I'll tell you if any of the darker ones are worth doing anything with.

I've thought about it. I already know Rev Plant pretty well (who does the Lexicon in Coin News, and other features). I think I'd find it difficult to fill a magazine every month though. They obviously do too, hence the proportion of ads and silly things about new issues from Tuvalu!

They should be ok it the trays 'naked' but obviously monitor them often in case they are in a damp environment or have other external factors in play. I hope to post them out within a couple of days! Order volume at the time of year is increased and Lighthouse tend to slow down with deliveries too.

Sometimes nice things turn up, but it's pretty rare. I would estimate that for every 10 non collectors that contact me with inherited accumulations, probably les than 1 in 10 has something worth while. And probably 1 in 100 has something individually worth more than £30. But you never know, and quite often the silver value in the pre 1947 adds up to quite a bit more than the seller expects.

I am over on the UK frequently and within the EU it's just like sending within the UK....no VAT, very secure etc. But, yes try the Brummie address first by all means. I find that in most cases these sort of family accumulations are unfortunately normally run of the mill stuff.

I've noticed that non web coin dealers have to be a lot more selective as they have to always offer their best coins, coins that aren't just £1 each, or they are more trouble than they are worth. I find this is the case at coin fairs, in fact I don't even bother taking any normal George VI or Elizabeth II because it doesn't sell at coin fairs and just takes up room. On a website on the other hand, once they're listed I don't need to do anything. And it's amazing how popular George VI and Elizabeth II coins are! I'm even selling Churchill crowns at a good rate at the moment. If a collection sounds interesting enough and is postable, then I'm all ears and have lots of happy buyers and sellers. I'll also travel to see collections if the value is high.

Oh, for anyone else with coins to sell, there are always reliable postal options! For example me. Many people with coins to sell send them to me and I always make an offer based on a relistic proportion of how I will price them up.