Chris Perkins

A 2017 main (obverse) dated pound with micro 2016 dates on the reverse was reported to me yesterday. I haven't been able to confirm it though and it may well be that someone is confused and it is the known main 2016 date with tiny 2017 on the reverse type.

Hello toddmeister, thank you joining the forum and thank you for buying one of my books.

I've listed my withdrawn 'lines on face' 2011 Aquatics 50p on eBay, in case anyone fancies a punt! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271404710693?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

The Magna Carta £2 coins are starting to appear in circulation. Dated 2015, so rather late, but they feature the 5th portrait of the Queen. The ones in last years BU sets have the IRB 4th portrait of the Queen and seeing as they won't be making any more 2015 BU sets, all of the 2015 Magna Carta with 5th portrait will soon end up totally knackered and I predict that in the future they will be harder to find in really nice UNC or better condition - same as the 1999 standard reverse £2 is now impossible to find in nice condition (it never found its way into sets either). Problem is, even from mint sealed bags they are already mostly in a right state before they even leave Welsh air!

Yes, it's a replica sovereign-looking half of a coin that would have originally been stuck in a cheap ring.

I don't suppose someone could do me a favour and attempt to buy something cheap on predecimal.com (once with paypal as payment option and again with card selected as payment option). Someone reported that it doesn't work and goes into some kind of loop. Obviously I'll refund any payments taken. Something cheap would be this 1981 crown for example: http://www.predecimal.com/crown-1981-p-213.html

Thanks. Mind at rest now!

Hardly a week goes by when I don't get offered one of those RM canvass sealed bags of 1967 pennies or halfpennies Matt. I wish I could sell more than about 10 of the coins for a £1 or so annually, but there are just so many of them. The rest I scrap as 95% copper. The start price is probably not far out for 15kg, but I'm not sure exactly what the value of copper is at the moment.

I found this very interesting today. This came with a load of other coins and had a label stating it was a Philip and Mary Groat with portrait of Mary only. I thought nothing of it at first because it's not in great condition, but on closer inspection the shield and cross looked wrong. On even closer inspection the legends also looked wrong - what's left of them. In fact, for a P&M groat they are totally wrong. It took me quite a while doing detective work (hammered aren't my thing really), trying to work out what it says after the very clear 'PHILIP' and on the back between the arms of the cross. There are a lot of tooling marks on the shield and the faint bust of Mary. As my eyes tuned-in better to the writing style of those days it gradually became clearer with a lot of googling that the reverse actually reads ...NOME DNI BENEDICTVM, which led me in a French direction and eventually helped decipher the obverse which instead of reading PHILIP Z MARIA, actually reads PHILIPP DEI G D BVRG Z COM FLAND.... It's Philip Duke of Burgundy (1384 - 1404) and the coin is a Flanders Groot (groat) which should look like the coin posted in the comments. Someone at some stage, at least 150 years later and for whatever reason, has filed off what should be on the obverse (a lion with a flag) and has replaced it with a scratched out effigy of Mary in order to masquerade it as an English groat. That's a lot of effort to go to on a piece of silver that would have probably been readily accepted as cash at the time in its original form! Why?

Those were the best pics I took out of a few. They show the Mary bust best, but they do look old (the tooling).

And this is what the original Flanders Groot botdrager should look like.

A new discovery, confirmed by me (I have one) and with 2 other confirmed examples known. 2015 Britannia £2 with die alignment out about 100 degrees. There must be more out there. http://www.checkyourchange.co.uk/2015-britannia-2-incorrect-alignment/

Yes it can be, but these are real. Another has also come to light but I haven't seen it yet so can't confirm 100%. I suspect they struck a lot like this with wrong alignment.

Got these. Open to offers. http://www.predecimal.com/british-predecimal-coins-double-florins-c-51_32_34.html

Not a coin, but it is numismatic in that it's seal related. I wondered if anyone had seen something similar or knew anything about this kind of thing? It's a brass dish 24cm (9.5in) in diameter. The centre appears to be an impression of a medieval Belgian seal that reads: S'PREPOSITORUM ET SCABINORUM CURTRACENSIUM The S' is, I think an abbreviation of SIGILLUM and from what I can tell the whole thing translates to something like: Reeve and Alderman seal (of) Kortrijk. A Reeve was an official responsible for an area, I suppose something similar to a mayor in this case. The Alderman was probably a lower rank than a Reeve back then. Curtracensium was a Latin name for the Belgian (at that time Flanders) city of Kortrijk. The 77mm seal in the middle of the dish is described in an 1873 book, referred to here: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fikKAQAAIAAJ&q=prepositorum+et+scabinorum+curtracensium&dq=prepositorum+et+scabinorum+curtracensium&hl=en&sa=X&ei=C0MbUvmtFMjKtQafoYDoAQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA Any idea as to why an impression of the seal was made into a brass dish (I imagine at a much later date)? Any idea of the age of the dish or any other information gratefully received.

Looks similar to mine, but the images are very small. I have mine hanging on the wall now, never found out anything else about it!

Interesting. Those links seem to work for me fine. How is it now?

Forum is fine now, but the ads are still on the main site! At least they are for me. Dave and Stuntman, do you see the ads on the predecimal.com homepage?

I first saw the silly ad things last Thursday and thought they were am malware problem on my PC. I asked the hosts, he could see no sign of them, so I went to GB for 5 days and thought nothing more of it, until I heard from Nordle the yesterday! It seems it wasn't a local thing at all. I asked the hosts again today and at first they found nothing, but after a proper look there seems to be malicious code on the server which was causing them. £150 later and they seem to be gone from the forum. Is everyone else ad-free now? To me they still appear on the main predecimal.com pages, but work is ongoing.

The following coins, all graded and in NGC slabs have gone missing from Fedex Stansted this week. If offered these coins, please contact Stephen Fenton on 020 7930 7888 and mention that you saw this info here: 1911 Half Sovereign PF63 Cameo 1911 Sovereign PF63 Cameo 1937 Half Sovereign PF64 1937 Sovereign PF66 Cameo 1937 Two Pounds PF65 1911 Two Pounds PF66 Ultra Cameo 1937 Five Pounds PF65 1785 Guinea MS63 1786 Guinea MS63 1799 Guinea MS62

Can someone post a link to the coin in question please.

Can someone post a link to the actual 1836 Half Crown on ebay, I can't find it. Are you sure it's Mr Platt's coin? Martin Platt is on fb a lot and I often run into him (in a nice way!). He's actually very helpful on there, not only to lots of people with the usual questions, but he's also been a big help to me with various pictures I've needed in the past, among other things. I have no doubt that the Yell reviews are all genuine reviews.

No. I'm just relaying the content of a BNTA email recently received. I thought it can't help to have it on the internet either. If 2 or more are offered in the same grades, it's probably quite a coincidence!

Where?

I seem to remember a few years ago when London coins had some kind of Investment Portfolio thing (with a different name) selling slabbed PCGS coins. There was a membership fee which was refunded after a certain sum of coins was purchased. I'd amassed nearly that sum buying things for a client and then they stopped it and started CGS and slabbing them themselves. I asked about the membership fee, if the total credit could be passed on etc. Got a reply weeks later after a further email saying 'No'. Absolutely terrible customer service, always. And now this happens, which looks very similar to me. Not a good show at all, and all the £99 and £499 subscriptions fees smack of desperation to me.