Chris Perkins

They'd tried to include html in the post in order to make it more difficult to report. Fortunately, I was still able to delete them both. It's so ridiculous isn't it, all it is, is a complete waste of my time....And why is it always in the beginners area I wonder. I'll have a look to see if I can make that area less attractive to those dodgy gits with no life that insist on advertising questionable wares.

Earlier today the member sunyang spammed at least 15 of the most recent topics with similar messages about coins for sale, with an email address, and pictures of Chinese coins. This is absolutely not acceptable, and will not be tolerated! The messages have been deleted, the user has been banned without notice. Their email has been banned as has the whole IP range from which the user registered. This behaviour is childish, annoying and any attempts by sunyang or anyone else to repeat this will be removed right away, so to even think about it would be futile.

Granted the non-coin trinkets are naff,However,lots of interesting new sets,whats amateur about that? What's interesting about them? It's all rubbish, mass produced and advertised in a way to make people believe that it 'might be worth something in a few years'. It never is (apart from the odd error that genuinely is rare). Get your modern coins from circulation, don't actually buy them! It's been like that since the coin collecting boom in the 60s, when some mint official somewhere thought it would be a great way of making money, if they could sell 'collectable' coins direct to collectors. So they mark the most obscure occassions with a special coin, and in rolls the cash. The stamp and banknote people do exactly the same. I've slagged off modern coins elsewhere. Don't waste your money.

It's assumed in Peck that the proof is always sharply struck (which is no doubt the case), but there is no mention of the 'I' pointing in Peck. I'll have to clarify that a bit in the next one if possible. Does anyone know if the 'I' pointing variety also occurs in the proof coin?

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You are able to for about 5mins after posting....It's to stop people going back later and completely changing things to make them look clever!

That's a nice, incredibly obvious error isn't it. Thanks.

Every single one on ebay is usually a polished die....just like most 1951's are frosted proofs and 1935's are always raised edge type because people think that it means the writing around the edge of the obv! Bafoons, the lot of 'em.

That's a nice one isn't it...Gotta be a damned good polished die type.

You don't look 49 at all 'TomGoodheart'!

Some of the 1960 polished die crowns are better than others. If yours is very nice then it may have actually been sold in America and not bashed about to buggery on the boat on the way back to Blighty. The chances of it really being a proof are very remote.

Then it's probably a polished die one (i.e. the dies were polished before striking, but the blanks were not).

Normally I like long legs, but those bloody Daddy-longlegs are my worst fear. I think it has to do with the fact that as a child my mum always used to go mental when one flew in the house. It's the way all their legs hang behind as they fly, and the fact that they seem to have no idea where they want to fly!

Oh no, I wouldn't think of pressuring you to sell it (and the message below my post obviously doesn't apply to you). If you can take a good (really good) picture you can email it to me if you like: cp@predecimal.com I'll tell you in a flash if it's uncirculated or not.

Yes, that's an expensive one in UNC (over £500) but you'd need an expert to verify it truly is UNC.

Try doing a search on the forum, or it can sometimes be better to do it on Google with 'site:www.predecimal.com/forum' after the string.

A lot of money for bronze. I'd be worried that a slight loss of lustre would wipe hundreds off the value. I see it was ended early, after just a few hours. I expect someone made a big offer.

Hello custard1966, yep, I´ll give you that one, you are quite right but ask the average collector to pick out the 1926 Modified from two photos and I think the results would be suprising. Hi Gary, You're absolutely right. I'm pretty sure I picked up that tip from somewhere - perhaps Michael Gouby's site, though it's not there at present. It's intriguing that the most obvious difference doesn't seem to have been spotted by any of the major authors. I've found an ME 1926 Penny! VG or perhaps NF for the reverse.

If you want another German commemorative coin Oli, I have the most amazing 1871 Prussian Sieges Thaler. Deeply toned prooflike (or possibly even proof) surfaces and sharp devices. A wonderful example of a coin that is pretty common in average conditions. £25 if you want it.

The thing is, I wanted to keep the forum separate to some degree, that's why it doesn't look like the rest of the site. During my current redesign I'll probably do something to get more people looking at the coins and accessories via this area.

Have you actually been to www.predecimal.com and had a look around? I really must get more people looking around and not just think the forum is all there is.

I don't know much about Italian coins, but the coin in that image looks very crude to me, not what you'd expect from a Western nation at that time. Having said that though, the Krause pictures aren't always the right size. For example, the Britannia British groats of WIV and VIC have been shown as the same size as the maundy groat for some time...Which is wrong, they should be the same size as a threepence.

£100, plus postage, which will probably be about £10.

Could it be a later restrike? I'm not sure without looking if the 1806/7 soho dies got sold later on with the cartwheel dies.

Argh, my arch rival!