Peckris 2

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KM-756-Half-Crown-2-1-2-Shillings-Victoria-Great-Britain-1878-Fair/254260172923?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D60041%26meid%3D61c912df9d874b77872623a77a3d7b5a%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D254328310467%26itm%3D254260172923%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851 "Fair. Heavily worn, but with readable legend and major points of design identifiable." Wow - that scarce ORIA DEI GRA variety...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1891-HALF-CROWN-QUEEN-VICTORIA-GREAT-BRITAIN-WT3231/163730625224?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D60041%26meid%3D5b1b8610b59e4b4ba46231d4bf335d18%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D352771357415%26itm%3D163730625224%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851 Hold me back!

I banged my head on my telescope and ended up seeing stars.

It's got BIDS on it!

I always liked The Two Ronnies "news items", for example: "The height of the furniture in the House of Commons has been lowered after an MP stood up too quickly and tabled his amendments."

Sovereign Homes don't go back as far as the 60s, when I presume the CM address was still Sov House?

What's all that white stuff?

That gave me a Google Maps page, with a small map lower left, and the normal headers, but the street view picture is blank apart from navigation arrows. However, going to Google Maps directly for that address, I did get there. Interesting - zooming in I see there is a url for sovereignhouses, who are my sisters' landlords in Devon. Sovereign Houses in Sovereign House? Could be a coincidence, or maybe they snapped up the lease as the address matched their company name?

Buyer bee-ware?

The publishers were an outfit in Essex, no longer in existence? I note from the Booksie site that a Ralf Dunn published the first of a new magazine 'Coin Monthly' a couple of years ago. Perhaps he bought the rights to the name? Or didn't know there used to be a magazine that name? I haven't looked into that any further.

Wow. It looks copper in your pictures!

True. Though it's also possible he was approached before CM folded (i.e. due to their financial difficulties) or even after (with a view to resuscitating the title)? I may still do that Wiki page sometime! Though I'd post it here first to get members' views and any necessary corrections.

Yes - I was planning to create a Wikipedia page on UK coin magazines and annuals but it never came to fruition. (I still have the research I did). Mr Mussell went to great lengths to tell me that THEIR blue pages were not connected to the CM year book, but methinks he did protest too much! Same name, same blue pages...

This also from Philip Mussell, back in 2009: Further to your enquiries I can confirm that the current COIN YEARBOOK is in no way connected to Coin Monthly – we started the COIN NEWS YEARBOOK in 1994 and dropped the word NEWS and adopted the blue pages in 1997 – after the demise of COIN MONTHLY and the other YEARBOOK. We have never been connected to COIN MONTHLY although were approached with a view to us purchasing the title, we declined. This implies that Coin Monthly was still going in 1994, or at least the Year Book, possibly as late as 1996?

A genuine 1816 copper fake!

I've got one of those! It stops water flowing when I turn the tap off...

"I'm not a sexist, but..."

That's true ... even of type collectors like moi!

Wow. Just wow.

Like so.

The + is in case you want to quote more than one post. When you click it a little box appears with a number which increases each time you click a + under a post. When you finally click that little box you get a post with more than one quote in it. I'll do you an example next.

Same with 'aluminum' - it was the original British English name.

I'd go with VG too. BTW that was a grade commonly used in Britain the late 60s as you've seen from Coin Monthly. No-one then referred to it as a "US grade", though nowadays they do.

My understanding is that November or December 1966 was the first issue (depending whether you take the issue date or the cover date). I believe it finished just before the mid-90s but sorry I don't have more information than that.

How... on earth did they... we... do it????? Headingley, for the second time in my lifetime.