Chris Perkins

Yes, but what you can do on a forum and what you should do on a book are quite different!!!! Most of all......I hate what seems to be more an american tend......whereby people write things with lots of full stops linking bits up..........as if they are speaking, or as if the don't really know where to put full stops and commas.

Amazing how the same things happen generation after generation. That sounds exactly like my situation, except they were both brunettes at the time and weren't twins. They did say they were cousins and I know their dads drunk in the pub together. I sat next to Chloe in Science because one day the teacher asked sarcastically where I would like to sit, and I told him. He thought it would be a good idea because she was rubbish at science and I was pretty good. She's still grateful now that I was able to dissect the ox's eye and sheeps heart instead of her, and that I helped her get some kind of GCSE grade when she probably wouldn't have got one at all otherwise. Red Riley: Thanks, I'll change those bits. Good comments.

The ones that aren't that obvious by reading them, are: Top Right, William III Shilling. Bottom Right, Ottoman Empire Coin (Turkey, Egypt and that area) Middle 2 at the bottom are Belgian. Middle right, possibly Russian, not sure. The 2 unreadable are not possible to ID with that pic.

I think it'll have to stay as it is, unless you can come up with something better than "a plethora of delights await you"!

I'll be standing by!

Yes, they were leggy specialists in the Joseph Moore model coinage of Queen Victoria! No, they weren't really! Vicky is a bit of cow since she got married the other year, I think her husband is a bit strange and won't allow her any friends. Chloe has a 10 year old son and a casual boyfriend.

I'll give myself a pat on the back then! I only got a D at English GCSE. But I think that was due to the feminine distractions Chloe and Victoria that sat in the row in front of me. I'm no Shakespeare, but I'm certainly better now!

Possively scathing! I have heard other negative things about the new Spink but you have summed up some important ones. I hope you don't do a review for my book! To defend Spink a little, they did have a staff change probably right at the wrong moment (due to the extra effort involved for the colour). I too have noticed lots of £75 priced VF early Victoria sovereigns, which with gold at about £78 per bullion coin, that is plainly not accurate! I had a 1951 Error crown in the past, so that does indeed exist. I spoke to Gouby last year and I think he considered the bun obverses too small and not able to do the various varieties justice, so that might be why they were removed altogher, even though it does seem a strange thing to do.

Of course none of those will work for foreign transactions, and Josie is in Ireland. I beleive you can get Sterling postal orders in Irish post offices, but I'm not sure. Only other way is bank transfer (not too bad within Europe, but higher fees for out of Europe) or the legendary Western Union. You have to be very careful with WU as it's easy for people to take the money and run. Another possibility, as you're a regular, perhaps another member would agree to send paypal funds for you in return for Euro or GBP cash.

They've never been deleted. I've just seen some from Jan 2004. If you click on the 'show all' at the bottom it should work. By default it shows 30, 60 or 90 days I believe.

I think you might wait a while to get £100 for it. £80 should sell it much quicker.

I'll back that up too! I recently sold a couple of nice GEF-AUNC coins for about £60 each, so £80 UNC is about right. Proper BU with full lustre (something that you won't see often on a 200 year old coin) would be more. In my book it says £150 BU, but that could be conservative for true BU.

Eliz, I'm not quite sure if the IOM coppers were exactly the same as those from the mainland, off the top of my head. I expect they were about the same because they would have both been based on the copper value.

I'd like to see the clipped flan coin. I sell 67 BU sixpences for 70p each, which is quite expensive. I think I have bags of the bloody things already so I'd only offer say 5p each for BU examples and I'd only want 20 max. That's quite a mark up, you're probably thinking, but it is double face value which is quite extortionate really! It should be borne in mind that I probably sell about 5 a year and that £3.25 profit over a year doesn't really make me want to go out and find 1967 sixpences!

Like what for example? Looks ok to me. The 'N's were usually around the wrong way on those, I believe.

Yes, but I try to stick to contemporary types and I'm not sure if that is...looks too new.

eBay, again, have amazed me with their absolutely useless automated bloody everythings! Yesterday all of my listings were removed, and I was banned for infringing copyright by selling the e-Book versions of the titles: British and Irish Campaign Medals - A Price Guide England's Striking History Both are of course Rotographic titles and both belong 100% to me!! My own father is even the author of the medal book, which features the late Uncle William on the front cover, and my own Granddad on page 3! Exactly who do eBay think they belong to?? Of course, I can't phone because ebay is the only multi national that doesn't actually have a phone number. In fact, they don't actually care about their customers. They are clearly just a massive money making enterprise, happy to take take take and never give anything in return, let alone provide a proper call centre (even one in India would do!) So, I loose sales and reputation because of their error. And I wanted to list quite a bit this week in order to have a bit of a clear out. Do you think I have a legal claim against them?

Thanks G.

My first thoughts were also that the surfaces looked grainy and I though 'fake from China' and answered no to all options.

I didn't mean to be so negative. It looks like they've be stored somewhere damp, and verdigris has spread onto most of them.

If I were you I'd bury them about where you found the other one in the other post!

No, I didn't get that I don't think. I know that all VAT on ebay listings will be at the Luxemburg rate of 15% from now on.

I think you should lobby the Irish and UK parliaments Josie and force them to make ownership of my book compulsary for every man woman and child in the British Isles! (I don't think that would be very easy, but it would certainly make me very rich! I'll give you 10% if you suceed)

What changes are they?

I wish I could get a TV appearance for the book! Such things are difficult though. I am talking to Bertrams books, who are big in the industry. A lady there that I met at the Frankfurt bookfair really seems to want to help and she is giving me tips on book promotion and at the moment on how to create an Advance Information sheet to distribute to book sellers.