Chris Perkins

He's a nutter and a hinderance to the peace process in NI. He's not really a Royalist, he's just a bitter Ulsterman. He wants NI to be a place where his people can be in complete control of the province, it's really nothing much to do with Royalism. And if he's ever made a Lord, they may as well do the same for Gerry Adams, because even though he's a bit of a nutter too, I think he often manages to come over a lot more mature than Rev Paisley. (not that I support Sinn Fein, and as if Gerry Adams would accept a Lordship from the British Government!) Were you ever in NI Aidan? I've been over there countless times and trust me, people that promote division like Rev Paisley and Gerry Adams, are just as bad as each other. It's all gone on for far too long, and I believe that there will be a better chance at a democratic peace when Rev Paisley is no longer on the scene.

True, true. It might be a start though.

It seems Aidan has a habit of sometimes writing things that usually contain content from one or more of the 3 P's....Pointless, Patronising and Petty. On this occassion it's not all the P's and a new one has been added: 'Paisley'. Isn't this basically just spam? I don't much like Ian Paisley, he's too stubborn and uptight. He should smoke a spliff.

I've disabled the code [like this] functions in certain areas to stop spam bots actually linking to websites.

I couldn't get the link to work yet, perhaps it's my connection or the PCGS server. I think this topic is probably themed on the quite wide gap between the collecting habits of those barmy Americans and the more reserved nature of the British gentleman collector, so it stays right here.

Is it all that different to Spanish, or is it like Welsh compared to English?

(he's from Barcelona)

Don't hide behind an unregistered ID. Join, take part in our converstations.

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Aidan, I think Gary probably knew that 1910 would have Edward VII on it! He never said it did, just that he was looking for one. Do you think you could possibly stop crashing every topic and teaching the experienced 'Grandmothers' here to suck eggs? We are grateful for your input, but the fact of the matter is that most regular members here seem to have greater knowledge than you do.

I bet it was the Victorians, they were especially good at bending, stretching and squashing things! I've seem similar before, and they went into my scrap copper bag.

Looks like it's been squashed and rolled in a machine. If the rim was that high when it was made, then there would be very little wear on the design elements because they would be well protected.

You mean Lauer in Nuremburg, and those were all small toy coins as far as I know. The fake 'half sov' in the first post looks like it could be a Lauer. The Crown could well be a Joseph Moore.

The bottom 2 are coin weights, made so that merchants could check gold coins to see if they were genuine (no digital scales in those days!). The king on one of them is James I. The hammered silver coin appears to be a groat, but I'm not all that up on hammered coins. The model crown is exactly what it says it is....A design proposed by someone that was never used. Sounds rare, but they were usually made in large numbers and I think some even saw circulation. It's probably got the makers name on it.

Whooa there Aidan! The top coin and the '1/3 Guinea' are clearly forgeries, the colour is wrong and they are crude in comparison to the real thing! I have a couple of third Guinea forgeries in my forgery collection....And the half sov is simply awful. These are base metal coins coloured gold, and are almost worthless. The widow head coin appears to be a real sovereign.

Ok, could you send me one? I'll PM address.

Email me the link, I'd like to see it.

Yes, you could do. In fact, if every regular on the forum pesters Smiths for all of the books in print, Which are: 0948964-79-0 Collectors Coins GB 2006 (33rd ed) 0948964-71-5 Roman Silver Coins - A Price guide (2nd ed) 0948964-58-8 Collectors Bank Notes 2006 (14th ed) 0948964-75-8 British and Irish Campaign Medals (1st ed) 0948964-47-2 Roman Base Metal Coins - A Price Guide (3rd ed) 0948964-85-5 England's Striking History (1st Edition) And then, if they call to say they have it for you, simply say you found it elsewhere.

The 13th is out of print, but the 14th (2005) edition is available. It's £4.95 plus postage, which will be £4.00 to Australia. PM me, I assume you use paypal?

They arrived at the warehouse last week, but I only got to see one today! The handsome "England's Striking History" is now ready in printed form. The RRP is £7.95, but forum members can have one for £6.95 plus £1.00 postage (UK). More info is here: http://www.rotographic.com/hammered_silver_coins.htm 148 pages and a quarter of a kilogramme in weight. It's all you need to sound like you know about history at the next dinner party! It's the thickest Rotographic book ever (apart from those wierd books on At Hlan, who came from outer space to visit Roger and tell us through Roger's vocal chords about the future...But that was not soley Rotographic, and, well, it was quite barmy)

You do have a habit of, in the words of Basil Faulty - stating the bleedin' obvious don't you Aidan. I know that Llantrisant was opened in 1968 because of the volume of coins needed for decimalisation. I don't think you could call a project of that size a branch mint even if the London mint did continue striking sovereigns into the mid 70's. (And while I'm having a little moan, next time start 1 thread and list your conder token types, you don't need one for each coin)

Strictly speaking, I thought none of them were allowed to, except the BofE of course. The Scottish and Northern Irish banks have to hold enough BofE notes to cover the value of their own notes in circulation. I dare say that if a Welsh bank wanted to do the same there would probably be no problem with that. Perhaps there simply aren't any major 100% Welsh banks that would benefit or have the means to issue thousands of spendable adverts.

They're listed by denomination, as most people will find that easier on the brain, even if it isn't strictly right. Replacement prefixes are in, so are Specimens. There are instructions on Op Bernhard. And the Dardanelles notes are listed too (I even had one to provide the picture). You clearly don't have a copy Aidan.

Only BofE and treasury.

I don't think you can call it a mule as such, because after the useful period for conder tokens I think quite a few were made especially for collectors and no doubt using different obv/rev combinations.