Chris Perkins

In the 70's someone put a Merlin engline in a Rolls Royce Car! Did you ever read about that?

The old Jensen Contraceptor! Someone I know had one of those when they were new and it blew up (well agressively caught fire) on a long stretch of A road. Probably electrical too. My dad had a Daimler 250 V8 (1969) and sold that way too cheaply before I passed my driving test! Mind you, it was brown. This is the website of a good friend of mine: http://www.dovercourtrollsroyce.com/ The blue Silver Shadow top left on the cars page was nearly mine but I decided to go for one less lairly with less mileage and a wee bit newer.

You're right, so I've split this off the coin related topic that it ruined! Have a look at the RMA these people are offering for sale: http://www.richard-shrive-cars.co.uk/ The Silver Shadow II's are the last of the real R-R's in my opinion. In 1980 when the Spirit came along they ended up with massive square headlights and looked like gigantic Ladas (apart from the Corniche which stayed good looking until the mid 90's)! Then after that they went all foreign, so they don't count even though they are also wonderful machines! SSII's for breaking are around £2k. Tatty but working examples are about £5k. Better low mileage examples with full service histories can go right up to £15k, but those kinds of prices are not often asked. On one hand it's not a lot of money for such massive well specced cars, but it helps if you know where to get cheap parts and specialist labour for them because that can be a killer! The previous owner spent £1500 on mine just freeing up the brakes after the car had been standing for some years! The heater/air con had also stopped working, so had the cruise control and the motor had seized that drives the headlamp wipers. It's a big problem with old cars in general but especially with complicated ones....They need to have regular use or things stop working. So when I get it back to Germany, I shall try my very best to use it every day.

I heard they can be a pig, especially with the original alloy/cast engines. That's what it's all about though, you drive around in it because it makes you feel good, and it doesn't matter what it costs to keep it going! I've recently acquired a 45,000 mile 1980 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow II. It's in England at the moment, a nice original car. I'm driving it to Germany in June.

Absolutely, assuming they are removed from the car! Have you got a '77 Stag? Did you know I grew up with Triumphs and had 15 of them over a very short space of time? Never had a Stag though.

Sounds like you need some of my wonderful digital calipers too. Finest German quality (and we know how accurate the Germans are reputed to be) and only £25 plus postage. Hussulo already has a set (en route).

You think the rev is identical? From a picture I have in a book, it looks vastly inferior in workmanship. It's obvioulsy supposed to be the same rev as the real thing, but it doesn't look very well done to me.

They're on their way!

You're right E Dawson, the gold coins, which would have been all too tempting to spend at the time are often never seen in true BU. And with gold being so soft it usually always has marks.

That's not the official one. The official one is by Croker of of much higher quality. That one may be contemporary. In the Croker medal the Queen faces left and the reverse is the same but of higher relief and with better executed figures.

Nothing has been changed, but you do normally only have the edit option for a few minutes after posting.

Ah yes, that'll be where he's going wrong! Like most people that find an unknown coin that has a rare variety, they always assume that thier coin is one of those rare varieties without having a comparison and in many cases without even understanding what the variety concerns! I'm afraid the chances of your 1889 Sovereign being worth much more than bullion value are pretty slim.

I don't have a Coin Yearbook 2007. But I can assure you, there are no rare 1889 Sovereigns. It's either a printing error, or you're looking at the wrong coin. Get yourself one of these (seriously): http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0948964...ASIN=0948964537 Once you have that you'll never need another Coin Yearbook!

Thankyou! I think I'll have to put the price up a little next year as £4.95 is too cheap for all those colour pages.

I have some surpluss digital (100th mm) digital calipers if you want to invest in some. They're not on the website, I got them locally. Excellent quality with hard case, and only £25.00

It's Scottish, A Briot milled coin. Looks real enough, but that picture is quite small. I'd be interested in seeing it.

Yes, £25 was a fair offer, certainly more than I'd pay for it. The public should trust numismatists more, we're generally a very honest bunch.

No, it's ok, I just wondered if we were related.

Is your name Perkin/Perkins?!

I don't know where you've been looking, but 1889 is a bog standard rather common jubilee head sov. Even the Australian mint coins are only a little bit more valuable that the London one. Have you not already got a copy of Collectors' Coins GB 2007 (see link above, 2nd book image from left)? It might cause less confusion in the future.

eBay have just ripped all my listings off and suspended my account for selling my own eBooks (for the umpteenth time their ebay listing checker bot has somehow come to the conclusion that the Rotographic ebooks do not belong to me). Of course, there is no phone number and it's Easter weekend. So I will loose a day or more worth of sales before they even see my message. If their really was another large auction site, people would leave ebay in droves and I'd be one of the first! With all the money they make, the next very important step is a proper customer care dept. I'd even put up with one in India!

I don't think you can attach .htm files (because of potential viruses they could contain). If you are trying to attach something written, you could do a screen shot and attach it as a jpg, or if it's lots of text you could 'copy' the whole text and paste it into a post.

You mean the 1983 2p with 'New Pence' I assume? If so, I'll offer you money for it! (the £2 with the Queen wearing a necklace were never rarer than normal....go spend it!) 1957 is the halfpenny with clam sea variety. There are some bargains on Predecimal.com, or at least well graded coins that are priced fairly. In antique shops and 'part time' coin dealer shops the things are usually overpriced because the people are not very informed and they overgrade things and charge a bit too much because they don't really know the true (often lower) worth.

In case you haven't seen above Joise, I have received your 5p's, and Aardhawks too.

I keep moving some of your posts Coins4u because I don't feel they are not really varieties. They are interesting to see, but in this case the 'variety' has been caused as a by-product of mass production methods.