Chris good, good news!

[Sylvester 15]

Right you might remember Eliza left a list of mintage figures for Early Milled coins on here before she left and you locked them away in a secret area.

Well i need them. Those figures are the lock. All we needed were the denomination mintage ratios. Well you might remember i emailed the royal mint 9 months ago to see if they had them.

Well i've just got an email out of the blue, i have the mintage ratio figures so i now have the key! (Unfortunately i've now lost the lock!)

You do realise what this means don't you? This will be the first Early Milled coin catalogue to include mintage figures for the silver coins (as far as i am aware).

[Chris Perkins 228]

Great. I'm in the UK. I'll sort you out next week!

[Sylvester 15]

No rush... i've got back onto the guy at the mint and i've asked him if there's anything on the copper coins (it'll probably take a while).

Plus if i remember correctly Eliza only supplied the coin mintages from 1662-1699, which means 1700-1757 missing (1757 is when the ratios break down due to the coinage system breaking down).

However i do believe Eliza left the title of the book that she pulled those from, so if i can find a copy of that book on Amazon or somewhere then we'll be doing very well!

I've recently been gathering some photos together off of Andy Bruce's site for the Crown section but i'm unsure if they are all upto the job. Due to computer problems of late they are located on a disc and not on my hard drive so i'll have to dig them out.

The indices and the mintages and the photos will keep me busier than i really need to be. The problem is what to do about the actual coin prices? JMD has done many of the copper ones for me and will be sending me those when he's done. But as it stands there's no way i can find the time to research the prices for the rest. A little help here would be much appreciated.

I've still got the intros and stuff to do.

[Emperor Oli 0]

However i do believe Eliza left the title of the book that she pulled those from, so if i can find a copy of that book on Amazon or somewhere then we'll be doing very well!

For hard to find or out of print books, I've used Bookfinder many times and it's never failed me. Someone pointed it out here a few months ago I think.