Chris Perkins

Is 4632 a 2015 50p? I don't think that number exists in my Spink, so it's probably from the 2016 edition? There certainly are both IRB and JC portraits for the 2015 50p. The RM aren't making things easy these days with the number of different coins they seem to be churning out.

Oh, and something else bonkers about the Battle of Britain 50p: there are 3 types. In my book they are 49a - Ian Rank-Broadley portrait, no denomination, coins in BU sets only. 49b - Odd transitional silver and gold proof version only with the Jody Clark Portrait but still missing a denomination, and 49c - the circulation coin with the Jody Clark portrait and finally a denomination too. Also noted about the circ coin is that even from mint bags most of them are absolutely knackered already in terms of bag marks, scrapes, scratches, dents etc, like the one shown below. For £2 coins, I've also seen silver proof versions with the wrong edge wording. I had a 2005 St Pauls WWII anniversary silver proof with the edge 'REMEMBER REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER'. And a slave trade silver proof with 'THE 4TH OLYMPIAD LONDON' edge has also been seen. Oh and for the slave trade coin there is a variety too - the coins in sets and the proofs had a tiny 'DG' (for David Gentleman) on the reverse. The circulation version has no DG and a different textured surface (and it now pretty rare in high grades). The most interesting £2 (IMO) is the standard 1999 coin as it wasn't included in sets and is now hens teeth in high grade. All in my decimal book

Very good. I had a glance. To add to the 1992 20p: there are clear differences between the large head and small head types. This is what I have in my 'Collectors' Coins - Decimal Issues of the UK... "The 1992 small head coin was thought to be scarcer than the large head, but new information would seem to imply that the large head coins are the coins that were circulated in large numbers and are now hardest to find (especially in top condition as most have seen normal usage). It is now thought that the proof version only exists with the small head. The easiest way to tell the difference is that the small head bust has a much sharper point where the neck ends at the bottom. The obverse 2 picture on the previous page is the smaller ‘sharp neck’ type." And that obverse 2, smaller head pic looks like this..

Hmmm, looks like something is blocking it (and others) from displaying properly.

I'll have a word with them about that and see if they have a banner that auto re-sizes for smaller screens.

I have a new forum 'partner' so you'll now see catawiki adverts on the forum pages. Catawiki are a Dutch online auction company that have recently set up a UK site. It's better than eBay in the respect that the listings are moderated by experts in each category field. They don't yet have the quality of items that eBay do, but what they do have should be of better quality, at least when they are established with a good number of UK based users. The auctions end weekly (currently 25,000) and they have many other categories from classic cars to jewellery and all manner of collectables. Please consider joining as a buyer or seller. A link is directly under this post (not sure if it's properly visible on phones/tablets yet, perhaps you could let me know).

Well done Matt, and thanks very much for sorting things so far.

I have re-enabled signatures (they seemed to be off in the upgrade) and note that some people seem to have their old ones back again. I'm afraid others (inc me) may have to add them again manually.

Signatures were apparently being re-built, but they don't seem to be back so I'm afraid we may have to manually put them in again (really sorry about that). I'm going to make Nordle11 an administrator now, as he seems to be fixing the problems (or offering work arounds) before I get a change to even find the cause!

Sorry, not been around much lately. Happy New Year everyone. I will look closely at the new forum issues and see what I can do!

What phone are you using Richard? Android?

The forum was upgraded last night. It seems to be up and working, but there are likely to be little things that will need perfecting. I'll also need to add some minimal advertising. Please report here if you notice any issues. So far the quotes don't seem to be showing up properly and signatures aren't right - these are both being re-built in the background.

Yeah, it didn't fix it. I'm using up too much memory (RAM memory I have learnt, not actual storage space memory). It should be ok now though as I've had an upgrade with more power all round. It may even speed things up a bit. And a new forum upgrade is also now definitely on it's way, now that the server and all the important software is bang up to date. It was the fiddling required for the forum upgrade that caused the issue.

You're on the right track Paulus, but I don't think it's due to the penny posts. I'm running out of memory, both in real life and on the server. The server has been re-started just in case there was anything running that shouldn't have been. If not, then I'll have to upgrade to a meatier server.

I've deleted the attachment with the address. You may want to censor that part and re-attach.

Yes of course, I've emailed you a December discount code!

Thanks very much SWANNY. Am just about to post it out (from Germany).

No idea, but you know what, I think a forum sortware update is due. Let's see what new tricks and repaired old tricks that brings!

Bit rude, crashing a topic to advertise a website that does appear to have some nice coins on offer, but also seems to use a bit too much marketing speak (akin to those well known peddlers of modern amazing limited edition rubbish) for my liking. Today I changed the security questions and have banned a couple of IP address ranges in an attempt to stop the current increased (mostly Polish) spam account registrations.

Alles gute zum Geburtstag Dr K.

That's choked me up Peter. We heard so much about Mrs Peter over the years. Really sorry to hear that

No Peter, that was another Oliver.

I sent some scrap pre 1920 off to Ollie and got back 4 bars of sterling, each containing an ounce of Ag. Larger chunks like that seem to be more popular than pre 20 silver coins!

What on earth is all this about???! It seems to have come out of nowhere. Are you ok PWA? I do think you may have initially over-reacted and fired the gun that seems to have started this avalanche.....then it was all ok again and Dave went off on a bit of a tangent. What happened there Dave? Seems to be a storm in a tea cup, we're all friends here. I won't delete anything, but I will go through altering some of the language, including things partially obscured by dashes etc.

Yes, good old JMD eh. If you ever see this JMD, and have forgotten your password, my email address is the same. Log in, say hello.