Chris Perkins

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.

It's original owner told me about it and I offered him £100 to send it to me, which he did. It's probably only an error with the proof. That's what comes of making too many bloody novelty coins! Having 2 different £2 coins in one year is asking for trouble.

I've just bought (for £100) a silver proof 2005 £2 coin. All cased and virtually as new. It's the St Pauls reverse type made to commemorate the end of WWII. The edge should read: IN VICTORY MAGNANIMITY IN PEACE GOODWILL. This coin has the edge lettering: REMEMBER REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER. Which is of course, wrong! In 2005 a £2 coin was also produced to commiserate Guy Fawkes failure, and this WWII coin has some how been given the wrong edge. I wonder if this error occurs in the normal circulation £2 coins! Worth checking, and something else to include in Check Your Change. Remember remember, you saw it first here!

Yes, I'm familiar with those Czech people.

Yes, I wanted to get my hands on one of his fakes for my fake collection, but missed out. I probably have at least one already, but just don't know it yet.

I know all the debt was hidden away by the Commies and that the East was run down much worse than the estimates at the time, but even if it is still costing the richer West money, it has to be the best thing to do? I mean, you were one country originally and you're basically the same Volk. When the East is back on a level playing field with the West (which will still take some time) then the whole economy will be better for it. I do understand the native West German resentment though. And the UK just finished paying off the USA for the help during WWII. Wars cost such huge amounts of money, no matter who starts them.

Wasn't there an Ashford doing all kinds of good copies once?

I've experienced the exact same. Albums full of world coins all scrubbed up or dipped to a lovely polished copper colour or a bright silver :-S If you added up all the Euros worth in damage to perfectly good coins caused by Germans doing un-natural things to them, it's probably cost them more than re-building the old knackered infrastructure in the East!

I'm sure Teg could post the bottom row to you? Better to have an many consistent pictures as possible from the same camera. Actually, could you email a few of your recent pictures, just so I can check they're ok and remove the backgrounds etc?

Recently a coin dealer closed down in Chemnitz. He blamed lack of material and lack of demand. In the end he was forced to dabble in modern commemoratives. Actually, he was totally clueless, overgraded and overpriced everything and even cleaned things. Last night I drove from Boulogne to Chemnitz (12 hours) with my dad. It's about 700 miles in one go.

I wish my dad was clever enough to post in a forum at all! I'm sure he'd also be able to take part in here if he wasn't clueless, and also still on dial up!

DustyBoy, you keep trying to post, but the result is just 2 or 3 copies (quotes) of other peoples post, with no new reply. I have deleted 3 so far. Is there a problem?

Glad you like it Irishraider. That's why you can't usually use ebay price data....It's flawed by the millions of people bidding when they don't really want to bid. It's so easy to get drawn in.

The images are back now. You probably noticed.

Oh, yes, so there are. They are no longer in the location they once were. I've asked my hosts if they have a backup of them from a previous date. If not, I may have to ask you nicely to upload them again.

I was up until 2.30 last night liasing with someone I found in Gravesend. We were able to fix it together (him doing the complicated bits). So, another little job. jobbed as they say.

Everything is back to normal now! I found someone that was able to help at an unearthly hour...And I'm now £45 lighter, but it was worth it and probably would have taken me days to do by myself.

It's all done now, and the forum has survived intact! But the shop area hasn't...At the moment you get a nasty error when you want to buy something. I know what's causing it, but I'm not clever enough to fix it and as everyone in Europe is asleep, I'll ask an American friend to put it right while I sleep. I just hope it doesn't scare too many people off and that they try again tomorrow.

It will only affect you if you use php to generate the URLs. For a static html site, you're already very friendly to search engines! Basically I'll be turning the URLS from something like this: http://www.predecimal.com/index.php?britis...sale.4566332134 to http://www.predecimal.com/british-coins-sale.htm (I made those up, so don't try them it won't work). Technically it's a change from generating them as cName to ReWrite mode. Search engines don't like the '?' charachter if it can be avoided. Anyway, to enable this to be switched on, I had to move to an apache server because it didn't work on a Zeus server. I just want to sell some stuff, all this technical lark is such a drag!

There will be a period of downtime overnight tonight, while my hosts swap me to another server. Once up and running again, none of the posts, user id's etc will be affected. It just won't work for a little while! The purpose of the change is to enable me to turn on better search engine friendly paths for the new look predecimal.com so that it doesn't suffer in the rankings.

I found a 1934 penny in the garden of a 1930's house I lived in as a boy. I even knew then that it was worthless. But it didn't stop me trying to find the 1933 penny that could have been in the same hole!

Cabrio driving in an MG is great for posing, but sometimes I do find myself not wanting to be blown away and instead experiencing a car with less noise, more space for passengers and a few parcels, and air-con! The wind is fine up to about 50mph, but on quick roads it's pretty noisy, and on the motorways it's not very practical. Even with the roof up it can be very noisy on quick roads as the wind whips past your 3mm plastic roof. If you want a cabrio, I recommend having a roofed car too, for when you're feeling a little more conservative.

Are those dents aroud the door area or is it the light? A nice example. I'm sure $4000 in 1978 was probably a lot of money, it would have been hard for her to turn it down!

Many of the famous names in coin engraving in the UK have been foreign, but I don't think that hindered them from creating wonderful works of art. Coins should be works of art created by talented individuals. If you want an image of a moment in time, fine, buy a photo or a painting, but a coin is a form of sculpture. The artist often creates something that is not as true to life as a photo/painting, but that's what it's about, the artistic licence to make a bust of Queen Victoria, George III etc that looks better than they did at the time! I could no doubt say more, but now it's time for bed. A coin created by a computer may look nice, but it is not inkeeping with the art of numismatics.