Chris Perkins

Then you really should not give your opinion unless you can stand by it! Just because others sell coins in a haphazard amateur way, doesn't mean that you should sink to their level and try the same! Buyers will respect an honest seller a lot more than one that overgrades. Grading is not just opinion, it's fact, especially with modern milled coins like those. You can't just choose a grade out of thin air! To be honest I am very dissapointed with your justifications and if I was a collector I wouldn't buy anything off you. Murderers murder people, but just because they do it, doesn't mean you have to as well.

You have a lot to learn about grading Clive! That double florin is Fine, and the 1889 Crown is around about VF. The 1887 florin doesn't look bad, but it's not EF. I havn't looked at the trade dollar. Perhaps other members will also post about how they see the grades. It's all about learning what the coins look like when UNC and using that knowledge to base the other grades on. I'm sure you mean well, but don't expect prices for the coins in the grades you give them.

That's alright, it's easy to oversee! I think you'll like CCGB though, seriously. I get good feedback about it.

No more quoting the CYB in this forum! Can't you use the Rotographic CCGB2007 book??

A Collectors' Coins GB 2007 would be most useful. If you've not seen one before, they really do contain more varieties than any other book (for the last 200+ years of coins). See the Amazon link at the top!

Those types exist also with George IV on them (and WmIV??? Not seen one) and also as pennies.

Nova Scotia is not Caledonia, i.e. the big peninsular on top of England! Nova Scotia is 'New Scotland', a part of Canada (before they switched over to dollars and cents).

1791 with a swirly print sounds like a Parys Mines North Wales Halfpenny (or Penny). Is it copper with a Druid on the other side? Hello Jen, wonderful to have some female company in here for a change! Many of the members have turned gay already you know ;-)

I've got the following: 1. Catalogue of the Murdoch Collection of Coins and Medals (the series of Scottish and Anglo Gallic Coins). Lots 1 - 406 (11th to 13th May 1903). Catalogue is complete, but not all in one bit! It has hand written notes in the margins which appear to contain the names of the winner and the price paid. Names include Spink, Verity, Rollin, Lincoln and Weight (they bought pretty much everything between them). I don't know if it's an auctioneer copy...each page is totalled and the Total of Sale is shown at the end before the plates. Offers? 2. Catalogue of the Murdoch Collection of Coins and Medals (the series of English Historical Medals). Lots 1 to 670 (2nd to 7th June 1904). Complete, but not all in one part. No prices noted. Lots of plates with large illustrations, quite a thick catalogue. Offers? 3. Catalogue of the Murdoch Collection of Coins and Medals (the series of English Historical Medals, GIII to Victoria). Lots 671 to 1084 (14th to 16 December 1904). Complete and just about still held together. No prices noted. Attractive plates, so are copies of fine hand drawn images. Offers? If you don't want/need them Rob, what do you think the 3 are worth? They came with a collection a few years ago.

That's a fake, instantly recognisable from the awful pitted surfaces. The coin wasn't struck it was cast. I'll give you a fiver for it plus your postage costs.

I collect forgeries! Can you post a picture and we'll be able to tell you right away if it is or not.

I'm listing hundreds of new coins on predecimal.com, most are from a big collection I bought which was compiled in the 80s in Australia. The total sale value is high and there are some lovely early 20th Century pieces. I've already listed the Fractional farthings up to pennies in the last few days. It's a big task and I'm doing it bit by bit. When complete I'll send out a newsletter. Some of the recently added pennies are from a forum member and some of the farthings have already sold to another! So, don't forget I also buy coins and am always on the look out particularly for 1797 to 1970 coinage in collectable grades. Selling to me is much easier than ebay, and you may be surprisingly satified with my offer...I'm very fair and transparent.

At the moment no pictures can be uploaded at all. It started when the whole site moved to a different server, and I can't work out why. I'll investigate again today.

Nights out in Stockport eh Geoff! I can imagine you must knock 'em all stone cold dead. I like Nothern lasses very much.

But now a good early 80s 924 will cost you £1500 and a good early 80s 911 will cost at least £8k but usually around £10k! We seemed to have crashed this with cars.

That crossed my mind too at the time, and I had a 924 once. Good cars, but with the reputation of being the 'poor mans' Porsche. Often sneered at by 911 drivers who never will see them as proper Porsches (mainly because of the contemporary VW help).

The most amazing thing happened last night! We went to feed Igor and couldn't find him at first. He was behind a tree (still in his enclosure) so I went round to say hello. He wasn't alone! He was rubbing noses through the fence with another hedgehog on the outside! The other hedgehog ran away when it saw me and Igor started climing the tree to try and get out to join him/her! Not bad for 3 legs. He frantically wanted to get under/over/thorugh the fence to join his new friend, so we cut the fence and let him go. He/she found his/her friend and they sort of run about in circles together with lots of nose rubbing and then went under some wood together! Normally a 3 legged hedgehog won't survive in the wild, but I'm hoping Igor stays in the garden area, especially if we keep putting food out each night for both of them. It was amazing seeing them both together doing hedgehoggy things. Even if he can't survive in the wild, at least he had a little companionship first.

My comical cow is a real cow that I once met. A tag on its ear said it was called '924' and in a field full of cows near the Strangford Loch next to Newtownards Co. Down it was the only one that approached me and wanted to see what I was. It's cows like 924 that we need you see. If farmers bred the most inquizitive cows we'd soon have an intelligent superior master friesian race.

There's a problem at the moment attaching images. I can't work out why at the moment.

Which I suppose is also what the RM is doing. And that's even more scary! People actually want that stuff.

I'm a big hypocrite though because I publish a book called Check Your Change, which illustrates, full sized and colour, every single coin design from 1968 onwards (without the Britannias actually, i want to add those). So, in a way, I'm jumping on the band wagon too.

It doesn't seem to work at the moment! Hopefully they've realised they are producing tat and have blown themselves up, while retaining the proper coin striking facilities for the coins we actually use.

The people only burn their cash with the RM and other sellers of collectable junk because they actually view the things as an heirloom and sound investment. They actually think that there will be a demand for the over priced rubbish in the future....just like there is today for Churchill Crowns and the 1972 Royal Wedding crown And they think that because of the clever way its marketed. They draw huge attention to the limited numbers and imply that there may not be enough to go round. You can understand provate companies doing it, it's business. But for a government official body to jump on that band wagon in a big way is shameful. There are thousands of old lady victims around the country that have piles of this kind of junk to give leave their kids. A nest egg, as they see it.

I like that! I think the new Diana coin should have it as an edge inscription. Obviously petition crown style, tiny and writen in at least 4 lines.

That's probably because it was done on a computer from a photo. Bless, that's the Princess with no doubt a little black starving baby, what an amazing stereotype, it makes me want to puke. Blatant money making exercise, I hope they mint as many as they did Churchill crowns and end up stuck with them. It's embarrassing, that kind of toot. No doubt the masses will buy it because they think it will somehow help charity or whatever and of course everybody loved Diana! I personally thought she was alright, but couldn't understand the fuss at the time about her appearance. In the 80s and 90s Kim Bassinger, Sharon Stone and Samantha Fox were better 'babes'. Granted, they weren't princesses. So she did a lot of charity work and was no doubt a lovely lady, but for gods sake lets move on and here's an idea....Why don't the RM stick to making coins and only create commemoratives for things that are worth commemorating. RM, please stop diluting real collectable coins with the kind of complete crap you've been churning out by the bucket load non-stop since the Churchill crown. They won't though, will they.