Chris Perkins

q Testing a quote.

Worked for me...what prob did you have exactly?

Let me try posting something with an image....

That makes sense....the 10 Shillings being the smallest banknote then and the £5 being the smallest banknote now (except in Scotland).

Over the weekend I got an email saying that I had requested a password change and should click the link to confirm (standard wording etc). I didn't click the link, but somehow my password had been changed. It had probably been done in the hope that a spammer could spam without the spam being deleted....I don't know. Nothing else was affected because all new members have to be aproved anyway. The same thing happened a year or so ago.

Users may have noticed that the forum looks different! My user account was hacked over the weekend and my password was changed! I could still use the forum but couldn't get into the admin area to do anything important. The nice people at Invision had to go in for me and reset my password. To stop this happening again they have also upgraded the forum to the newest version. What this means for you is that it will all look 'default' until I get around to adding the header and some other little tweaks. What it also seems to mean is that many of our signatures don't look right! I had to change mine and re-format it according to how the system now nices them to be! It will involve you going into 'My Controls' and basically creating a new signature using the buttons available. If you need any help let me know. Sorry for any inconvenience.

I expect 50p was probably more like £3-5 then! The 50p coin replaced a predecimal banknote of course (the 10 Shilling note), so it must have been worthwhile and at least comparible with fake £1 and £2 coins today.

It's a forgery. I collect forgeries and would give you £2 + £1 postage for it.

When you have to sell them to raise money for Baby's Nikes, you know where to find me! That's quite a big baby isn't it, 8lb 12 nearly! Well done Hus and Mrs Hus.

I've changed the wording in the 2008 edition.

Maybe she had a lot of previous! Or maybe she was sentenced to hanging but got off with a year in gaol.

I had it from a very reliable source that at least 1 person (a lady) was hanged for attempting to pass off a gold plated 1st type 1887 sixpence. I'm not sure now if the offence was passing it off, or creating it with the intention to deceive. I think I read it in a book, but can't remember where.

Ozt will be ounces Troy, which is what is usually used for bullion and coins.

I'm back in Germany now. The filling was painless and the tooth didn't hurt afterwards either, which is good. In Germany there is no NHS system like in the UK. Over here people that are PAYE (i.e workers on a fixed wage) have money taken for their healthcare automatically from the wage. If you're self employed here, as I am, the only choice is a private health insurance policy which is more expensive than basic NHS cover in the UK. It does have benifits though, like shorter waiting times than the proles! But, finding a dentist here is easy (at least it has been for me). You just pop along for an appointment and get done and dusted pretty quick. I have 2 dentists within walking distance and have been to both in the past. My bill for the large filling (which was one entire side of a tooth, right down to the gum) was EUR150. I don't know how that compares to the UK, and I suspect each treatment is slightly different. I expect I'll pay that bill myself because if I send it to my insurer they'll just put my premium up next year, which annoys me! I'd much rather have a basic cover like the NHS and be free to pay for private things when I want to. I am 29 and pay about £80.00 per month. I've never actually sent them a bill for anything, so it's a complete waster of £80 each month as far as I can tell.

The figures are thought to be correct but are of the number of coins made that year, not the number dated that year. As clarified under 'Mintage Figures' on page 4.

Tomorrow (Sunday) I fly to England for a week. Today, a filling decided to fall out and now I have half a tooth missing about 16 hours before I have to catch a plane! We called the emergency dentist and he can fit me in tomorrow moring, and will have at most 1hr 20 mins before I have to leave him to catch the plane. So, that should be fun!

Buying individual coins for scrap is very time consuming and I think the postage costs probably make it uneconomical.

Yes, they are often off the edge a bit, but it's clearly 1752.

Coming back to this, while I'm going through adjusting the prices in the book - it seems that a lot of stuff over the last 12 months has remained about the same. Also, compared to last year there have not been any choice collection offerings (like Cooke, Bamford etc). I hate to say this, but I think a lot of the prices are going to stay the same in the 2008 book (don't tell anyone, or it'll sell less!). Especially 20th century stuff, it seems to be about the same. I've already adjusted the pennies and farthings mentioned above.

The grade isn't bad for one of those, certainly around Fine. But it has been very harshly cleaned at some point.

All I have left is a couple of copies that I'm keeping for the archive. I believe WHS have 46 left!

I think that's almost certainly Vera Trinder. 38 Bedford St, just off the Strand.

Vera Trinder in the Strand should hopefully have some promptly. Possibly Michael Coins in Notting Hill and you could even order it from Spink and eventually WHSmith, Borders and WG Foyles, but I think Vera Trinder should be quickest.

You like the look of that eh! Actually there will be a couple of little changes to the cover...main thing is that the coin images will be split so they don't overlap each other. I think the free coin is going to be an excellent sales incentive. In fact I'm already selling them as we speak! Bertrams just called and want to meet me at the Frankfurt Bookfair (because I told them that their main competitor is buying more than 2x the books they do, which is true). Another wholesaler ordered 200 copies today bringing total pre publication sales so far to 1050 books. And yes, it really won't be ready until October 10th, possibly a day or 2 earlier. I'm just finishing it this week before it goes to print the week after.

Simply send them all to me and I'll give you 60% of however I price them!