Chris Perkins

Try to register now. There was a banned IP address begining the same as yours, but that shouldn't have stopped you.

Where are you Melody? What email address to you use (just the last bit)? It could be that your IP address has been banned because it has been previously used to spam. Ditto your email account.

I have mentioned in it about fake £1 coins but I have not gone into great details or listed the known types.

Just as a quick aside German....How big are you? I may have some previous business partners in St Petersburg and you could perhaps pay them a little visit for me to remind them in a friendly and yet persuasive manner about the money they owe me! Only joking. And a very warm welcome to another decent Russian....that's 2 so far!

I think you may be right. There are also pitfalls with selling things on your own website. Getting traffic to it is the first one. Getting people to trust what they see and spend money is the second problem. Making sure that money is actually real and belongs to them is another potential hassle. I do it pretty successfully with my accessories and coins, but I do find the books go better on ebay. I think the best thing ebay could do would be to setup a proper customer support dept. That would persuade a lot of people to stay and even list more things.

Falls on deaf ears. I have emailed of course, but no doubt I'll simply get an automated response quoting their user policy on blah blah. There will be no apology and when I re-list the items it'll probably happen again! I've written to a solicitor that has dealt with improper auction removal before.

For bronze Freeman is the book, but for copper collectors you can't be without a Peck.

There is a gold '65 penny listed in CCGB2007, it was in the earlier editions and had been included for years. It's in the proof section (although it isn't a proof) and is probably the same coin. It's listed at £2500, which is obviously too cheap now.

Yes we're all absolutely bonkers here, but if you're a spam bot you can find somewhere else to spam Twentygirl.

It's an animated gif. There are shareware programmes out there that you can use to create animated gifs. Slightly restricted because gifs can only be a max of 256 colours.

I don't suppose there would be much opposition to that, but we must remember that there are under 18's that frequent this place. I'll see if I can lengthen the edit time.

Thanks, yes that's something to add. And I'll change the Latin. Has anyone seen Kuhli around anywhere, on other forums perhaps? He hasn't answered my email and hasn't been here for a while. I want to arrange with him the sending of a small fee for the groundwork done on what will become Check your Change.

The time limit is very short. It's so that you can post something, then check it for errors, edit it and save it, literally straight away. This is so that whatever is said is set in stone and cannot be changed at a later date, so that we can all laugh at you if you say something stupid, and also so that we can all hate you if you say something very nasty indeed (not that you would of course). Is it possible that you started editing within the time limit and the time limit expired while you were still doing it? Next time, try to edit quickly and see how it is. If there's something that needs changing, let me know. It's also important that the info kept on here is accurate.

I saw a controversial chemical somewhere that can be applied to re tone coins. Also, experiment holding the coin in a clean flame (i.e gas) as this instantly oxidizes the coin, but is usually quite crap because it always turn out un-even. I used to do this ith coins as a kid.

On the 12th and 13th of December Barclays Bank charged me 2x £30 per transaction beyond my overdraft limit. I hadn't kept an eye on the account. I got dad to pay some cash in and that sorted it. I was quite pissed about the £60 charge. So I looked online and apparently there has been quite a bit of publicity about bank charges recently. I found a very official looking letter template that cited other cases of companies taking fees that were not proportionate to actual costs. So I sent them this letter with a threat of account closure and court action if the money was not returned. And hey presto, £60 hit my account today! They don't want court hassle, so refunding is much easier. So, if you're annoyed about bank charges, claim them back! PM me if you want to the the letter used. Unbelievably effective I thought.

£30 per transaction over my agreed overdraft!!! Swines, banks are. I don't know the original source of the letter, I think it was the BBC somewhere. Over here in Germany they never charge more than EUR10.00 for things like that. And parking tickets in Chemnitz are laughable. I park where I like because I know if I get caught it'll cost me about £3.50! I got a ticket London for being parked outside a friends house with 2 wheels on the pavement (not a yellow line) and that cost £40! We are per capita richer in the UK than in Germany, but the things you get charged in merry old England, particularly the 2 examples above are not proportionate.

Isn't the Queen already head of the French state, what with her pedigree and the lack of French nobles since the revolution?

The bold purple on p7 is just to remind me that that part needs attention (dates checking etc)! I should have mentioned that. I can't take the credit for the wonderful and clever use of colour, that was the page designer. Worth every penny though, it really sets it apart I think.

Yes, I think the 'Claim' is far scarcer than the 'Bill'. The prices are still subject to adjustment before the book gets published.

The 1960's version sold 1.75 million copies! Which is absolutely breathtaking, but unlikely to be quite so many this time round. In the 60's of course coins were still in circulation from 1816. I do think though that a book exposing the myths about decimal coinage will be a good idea, and I do believe that lots of members of the public will find a book useful, even if it is just to have a record of all the decimal coins in one place.

I think I prefer Piedfort, I'll check to see what word the Royal Mint use. And I think you might be right with the Fidei Defensor too, I'll check. Unless that's because it used to be Defender of the faith and then at some point because of the multi culti thing became Defender of the faiths. I found a pro for the layout and she did a wonderful job didn't she.

From the subject name I thought this was spam at first!

I have the same problem too when I'm in the UK and have tons of coins to take on a plane! Fortunately I can leave them with my dad usually. What is the scrap value of 10kg bronze?

You often have French in your signature and I'm sure you mentioned it before! I know that you collect German 3mk coins.

That's right. What's left of the French Empire are 'proper' colonies where the French have more control. I think that French Guyana is the only one with the Euro....it might even be the last French colony?! Oli wil know, he seems to be into French things. I have French ancestors you know.