Chris Perkins

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?!

It's my forum, I can advertise anything I like, from Viagra to class A drugs. I've given you a little warning pip for being cheeky. Actually, it's mainly because I've never used it before and want to see if the warning pips are any use whatsoever.

The Triumph was sold quite smoothly in the end! You're also not allowed MG TF's over there are you (the new type)? I have one of those that will need a good home soon.

Get one of my books and quote that instead! Advertising ebay listings here is bad enough, but using a Coin Yearbook is just a knats whisker short of a terrible crime!

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.

Well done....Smooth.

You're right, Mr Average anywhere is absolutely thick. The fact that we and other forum members can put a few sinsible sentences together is a lot more than most people. It comes down to effort too, people just don't make the effort either.

I looked at them all. Diabolical over grading all round.

Just noticed your post AardHawk! Are you also able to send me your 5p's? I'll return them once I've had a look and I'll make sure you also get at least 2 free books. (thanks for sending your 5p's Josie.

I noticed that the other day and you have reminded me to have a word! I've asked the seller that if he's going to quote my prices and get the grading so wrong, that I'd rather he quoted Spink prices!

That's horrible (especially in proof form), it looks like they've got a team of Chinese forgers to make the dies in order to save money. Pistrucci really must be turning in his grave. The stylised 2005 was bad enough - but interesting in a 1935 Crown sort of way - the 2007 rendering really is awful.

Josie, Are you able to label the 5p coins you have and send them to me? I'm putting the finishing touches to Check Your Change and this is good info, but I want to see them for myself. I'll return them and send you free copy of CYC and CCGB2008!

Surely £1000 is better than £5! It looks pretty grotty, so if I'd got £1000 for it i'd be over the moon.

Some good ideas. Spiral bound might even be cheaper than perfect bound. I think that the vast majority of CCGB owners find that the existing format serves their purposes for a year, so I think most of the print run would be absolutely fine as they are. I do recognise that there are a few fanatics like Josie that use their books an awful lot, so I'll see if I can do some special ones next time. For 2007 I did actually almost do a few limited edition hard backs.

Is the binding not strong enough?

Has he offered money for them? I wouldn't give them away for free, but I probably would be able to sleep at night if someone gave me a tenner for them. The oldest and 'most' foreign would probably take effort and time to research, and would probably end up to be worth very little. So for £10 they're out of your way and someone else has to put the time in! Unless anyone here thinks any different.