Peckris

totty? Scuse me, be back in a bit ...

Well, from Rainham, the nearest will be Bexley (in Bexleyheath) or Essex (in Chelmsford)... contact details for both can be found on their websites as below: Bexley - click here Essex - click here How about closest to Stroud/Cirencester, Mr Cerbera? Soiren! Where I spent a few of my teenage years :-) Happily this was the late 60s when Gloucs girls wore their skirts VERY short

Pressed in a vice perhaps?

Not more than £50, or bugger all if it was my money! I don't think ebay will slow Declan for the simple reason that there are too many buyers on there with too little knowledge, or who are too stupid, or too idle to try and source better quality coins from sources other than ebay. And far from "Oh they will get their fingers burned when they come to sell", they will compound the vicious circle by selling on eBay where the same ignorant, stupid and idle crowd will get them their money back and more, thus confirming them in their view of having paid the "right" price in the first place. What chance have genuine dealers, selling good quality stock, with overheads, trying to make a living, got? I suppose many of them will end up selling on eBay...

Go for it I did Excellent! If Lydia makes her fortune from those, then the Republic can't be far orf

But they do exactly what the Royal Mint does by the sound of it I'll have a gross of those please Declan!

as a photographer who knows a little about cameras all i can say is Me too! (No camera without Macro mode should be used to photo coins ;-)

It has obvious similarities to a medieval hammered penny, but it's clearly not a monarch coin, probably not even English. At an educated guess it could be a Continental 'jeton' or possibly a Crusader piece. The cross is a 'short cross' type, with characteristic serifs you don't see on English pennies. Sorry, I can't be any more informative than that.

Danny I do this for a living and the best advice I can give you is try buying and selling something that you know about. Most dealers (the good ones at least) started off as collectors. You need the knowledge you gain as a collector to become a half decent dealer. As a novice you will not have the first idea about grades, rarity, state of preservation (cleaned, whizzed, tooled etc), value, desirability or authenticity. You need to know all of those to stand any chance at all of even breaking even. Ebay is already cluttered with people selling coins that they know nothing about and the auction rooms already have far too many novices paying silly money for boxes full of unsaleable crap. Sorry to put a dampener on your plans but if you are serious you need to start a collection first. Yes, excellent advice. I married reasonable knowledge to a far-from natural ability as an entrepreneur - and I did no more than 'tick over'. You may be a natural entrepreneur but you don't yet have the knowledge and experience you really need. The best dealers have "the knowledge" AND they are able to 'wheel and deal' with the best of them. Collecting will start to give you the knowledge at least.

Oh dear. Look, before you spend a whole of time and energy doing more pictures, I have to tell you that those coins are in pretty low grade (i.e. less than Fine, ,considered the minimum collectable grade). To get an idea, click on the www.predecimal.com button top left below the logo, to the left of 'Forums'. That takes you to the home page. Again near the top left you will see a 'Coins for sale' button - click that, then 'British predecimal coins', and have a wander through the various categories. That should give you some idea of what the upper grades look like. Feel free to come back and ask us again.

My first reaction is to wonder why the first type of 1953 coins so absolutely & overwhlemingly outnumber the 2nd type. The answer must be the breakup of the plastic sets, which are exclusively the first type. Makes you wonder just how many of the sets remain (especially when you factor in the number of 1953 penny - only from sets - singletons that are/have been for sale). Mind you, the plastic sets are still commonly available so even with a large scale breakup ratio, there are still plenty left.

"the writing on the back is writen backwards. " Gary said that the back was the wrong way around... so this means it doesn't rule out the brockage - or confirms it? Your square 5p is interesting, my theory is that as they fed the srip of metal into cutting machine and cut it to the right size, then fed it into the stamping machine, it for some reason failed to stamp out the blank and it was struck in it's odd square state. It's a miracle it got through quality control (or maybe it did and a sneaky mint worker took a bag of dodgy ones home instead of to the melting pot ) You guys can be really slow sometimes...The other side is seen in a mirror, mirrors alway show things in reverse hence the writing is reversed. Where's that shaking head sadly emoticon when you need it. I didn't see the picture... and I was quoting you on the "written backwards" bit. If you're referring to "a brockage should have the reverse facing the right way in the mirror image" he was referring to the terminology for the tails side of the coin. Or am I being slow again? No, you're not. What's the evidence for that even BEING a mirror? The front image (right way around) is casting a shadow on the surface of the "mirror" which it certainly couldn't if it was an actual mirror. It looks more like a lightbox to me, than a mirror, showing the coin design struck reversed. It really is a mirror and it really is a threepence with two 'heads' or obverses, both the correct way round. Honestly! But... it's been carefully created from two coins welded together. Oh right! If it's yours, I can't argue with the horse's mouth, try as I might

Hi - this isn't the best way for us to view coins, for one thing there is no pause button on that viewer. However, the first is a very low grade George III shilling (1816?), possibly a base metal counterfeit. The last one is what it says on the tin! viz., a Co-op token probably from the late 19th or 20th Century. The middle one, which with a pause button I would have stopped and studied more closely, looks like a European early milled coin, but more than that I cannot say. Oh, now I've seen a pause - it's on the top and only shows if you mouse over. The middle item is of a European Charles II by the look of the legend, but there are confusing elements - IND IMP only applies to British coins, HISP refers to Spain, while DVX BVRG .. FLAN is probably 'Duke of Burgundy (and Flanders?)'. Probably a fantasy piece used for gaming, possibly 19th Century?

"the writing on the back is writen backwards. " Gary said that the back was the wrong way around... so this means it doesn't rule out the brockage - or confirms it? Your square 5p is interesting, my theory is that as they fed the srip of metal into cutting machine and cut it to the right size, then fed it into the stamping machine, it for some reason failed to stamp out the blank and it was struck in it's odd square state. It's a miracle it got through quality control (or maybe it did and a sneaky mint worker took a bag of dodgy ones home instead of to the melting pot ) You guys can be really slow sometimes...The other side is seen in a mirror, mirrors alway show things in reverse hence the writing is reversed. Where's that shaking head sadly emoticon when you need it. I didn't see the picture... and I was quoting you on the "written backwards" bit. If you're referring to "a brockage should have the reverse facing the right way in the mirror image" he was referring to the terminology for the tails side of the coin. Or am I being slow again? No, you're not. What's the evidence for that even BEING a mirror? The front image (right way around) is casting a shadow on the surface of the "mirror" which it certainly couldn't if it was an actual mirror. It looks more like a lightbox to me, than a mirror, showing the coin design struck reversed.

Not that scarce I don't think - it's another one most people don't notice, so you could probably find one for peanuts being sold as a 1967. I knock 'em out for £8 each but for gods sake don't pay that! £8 is an extraordinary price! I knocked 'em out at 50p from my list in the late 1990s, and the regular one for 20p. That probably gives an idea of the comparative scarcity - it's really not rare at all, and probably accounts for at least one fifth, maybe up to a third?, of all 1967 halfpennies. By the same token, maybe more got melted down as people had probably put aside large stockpiles of 1967s already; mind you, collectors were made aware of the variety long before the halfpenny was finally demonetised.

The main things would be 1) Decent photos with zoom facility 2) Always have the option of special next day deivery available. Always have the option of special next day deivery available Is that where you come down for breakfast and your family bows down in worship?

Can I add the 1967 pennies with 1) Stalk in helmet 2) Tidal wave next to lighthouse Never seen a photo of either David The "tidal wave" penny is 1966 - I bought one for a tenner from Phoenix Fairs some years back. Do you still have a 1956 1/2d spare Gary? I only really want one of them, which is the one with the wider rim, I of DEI to a space. PM me if you have one.

Oh Lord - I remember those, and debated whether to buy one. Sadly I lost.

Much closer to real life.

John He is on loan on a pay for play basis....guess what he is injured. He actually scored when he had a broken leg before we popped him up to you for £6m. It was that Robson chap who also collared Titus. Those two only fired on 3 cylinders...shame really. Christ is he sill alive? Not Christ, but Kieron Dyer lol Was it him who had the standup fist fight with the Barton character when they both played (supposedly) for the same team? It wasn't so much a stand up fist fight, as a direct attck on his teammate Ousmane Dabo at Man City. It was basically GBH by any other name. Barton is a very aggressive character who has been involved in violence towards others on many occasions. Not a pleasant individual IMO. Joey Barton I think you will find he has matured somewhat over the last 2 years. The sending off in the Arsenal game when he was grabbed by the scruff of the neck by Diaby being a good example. 2 years ago Diaby would have got snotted, this time Barton just shrugged it off. He doesn't drink anymore either, which obviously negates the thug in him on nights out. It took him a while but I think he has finally grown up and joined the human race. One of very few individuals who has had the guts to take a look at himself, decide he didn't like what he saw and make some life changing decisions. Must have taken an extreme effort of will power on his part. Nonetheless, I imagine there are many who will still feel quite apprehensive in their dealings with him, wondering if he will suddenly snap again, if they say the wrong thing ...such as "OMG, you're nearly as ugly as Gary Neville!"

Why have so many coins from around that era, got bloody holes drilled through them ? There must be a reason Not only that, why are there so many with initials & such like stamped on them ? The ones with initials on are often love tokens. You can just imagine the Barry White of his day grunting "Of course I luuuuuurv ya girl - look I've inscribed a whole week's wages with our initials on."

One of those sixpence varieties is scarce, but I can never remember which one (consults 1970 listing ...) - yes, the 1965 with the earlier obverse / milling (rated RARE). Any 1956 halfpenny that is not the normal regular type is also RARE.

Well spotted Peck! I'm impressed. Aw shucks. Looks at the carpet pretending to be embarrassed.

If the first is genuine (I can't tell without a lot of Photoshopping), it's probably Diocletian or one of the many short-lived emperors of the mid-late 3rd century A.D. As far as value is concerned, even if it is genuine, probably not worth a fortune as this type of coin is turned up quite regularly by metal detectorists. The second is definitely a gaming token and I would tend to agree with John (argentumandcoins) re the third. The first is an antoninianus of Postumus (you can just make out his name on the obverse); even if not a copy- which it probably is - it is not very valuable, around £20 perhaps. The third has the replica initials stamped in - if you look on the reverse somewhere inwards of 5 o'clock, there's a definite CR, and the company is WCR, right? But thanks for showing them - hope you didn't get burned buying them?

Ok, my first item is a 1967 penny that 'clacks' when you drop it. I COULD put a picture up but it looks just like any old boring 1967 penny! Nice grade, mind you, EF with traces of lustre, must be worth all of ... ooh, what shall we say, 99p plus postage? Could it be on a similar penny planchet but for another country? Is it a forgery made of another metal? (As if anyone would forge a 1967 penny ) Does it have anything wrong with the edge? It looks and feels exactly like any 1967 penny (definitely the right planchet, metal, etc). And you're quite right - who'd forge one of they? You'd only notice something wrong if you dropped it on a surface - instead of ringing, it clacks. The only I've not done is weigh it, but I don't have a set of they sensitive coin weigh thingies. Will look like this I think he'd have noticed that! I can definitely confirm I would have noticed that!