Chris Perkins

Although from Kent/London myself, when I went to Northern Ireland a while ago they remarked that I sounded like Jamie Oliver. (from Essex..I suppose SE England is the same to them, and there isn't much or a difference) I suppose when on the phone and in formal situations I sound ok, but with friends and in informal situations I can sometimes sound 'as common as mook' (as Sylvester might say) Round here in Germany there are slightly different accents from village to village with certain words.

Biggest in weight overall dimensions, or biggest in diameter? Cos i think you find hammered silver pounds and gold triple unites were bigger in diameter. I have a feeling the triple unites would weight more too. Dunno though, silver pounds were the biggest ever. Ok, perhaps it's the biggest coin that ever circulated from the last 400+ years! I know gold is a dense metal, but hammered coins are always thinner, do you think it would weight more?

I expect the ebay one will go for a good price, it's a good picture. Unfortunatley it's usually not easy to get a real bargain on ebay.

Tut tut JMD, how can you clean a coin from Fine - BU ? Even the 'lustre' on a highly polished fine coin is different to the lustre on a BU coin.

I have a number for sale colliewalker, they are popular but not at all rare, at least not in mid-lower grades. For about £20 you could get quite a decent one. As the biggest coin that ever circulated and one of the first to be struck with steam power they are important numismatically.

Hopefully it should be started next week. I'm not sure how many the printers will be able to turn out this month.

Cheaper Juan, EUR2.00!

I remember having such fun playing Quake 2 on the network at work (www.bromcom.com). My name used to be 'Shania Twain' for some reason, and when I got killed I would exclaim 'That don't impress me much!' much to the amusement of the people around me. When I did something awfully girly I would say 'Man, I feel like a woman'. (in the game of course) I do miss working with other people.

The language looks Thai, or Burmese (somewhere around there). I don't think it's Indian. I'm sure someone with a Krause to hand will be along soon.

Looks like a real one to me. You'll find that sometimes even really very old coins are very cheap Juan. By the way Juan, did you mean to be 'Unknown'?

Thanks, I'll change that, but I've already sent a link to the proofreader, so I expect he'll spot it too! I have a version called draft2.dpf in the same location with updated prices. I have now incorporated all of the prices from you Custard, and the Rotographic database, as well as Williams Florins and Geoffs Half Crowns (Geoff if you're reading this I haven't forgotted about the 1908!) I just need to change a few more prices (Wybritt, Sylvester and Coppers) and we're away.

Thankyou Juan!

But that would mean more pages, more cost, which may move it up to a similar price to the Coin Yearbook. It's an idea that cannot be ruled out though.

By jove, i think you're right, I'll mention it.

Yes, in fact I still have that one sitting beside me. I'll be delivering it personally (with some other stuff) in Early Nov.

Blimey I didn't do it! I paid someone to do it: http://www.samwall.com

That's ok I suppose, the tone isn't that pretty. I probably wouldn't go so high as GVF, maybe NVF/AVF. Edward VII Halfcrowns in my opinion are not difficult for 1910 or 1902.

All the 92 pages are there now, and they're numbered as they will be in the book. There are no circles, no red text, and all that's left to do is run through the prices using the database etc and Mr Marles Prices, which should take a day or 2. Then its off digitally to one of my subscribers who happens to be a coin collecting professional proofreader! (he'll do it half price because of the subject matter!) In the meantime I'm going to take this version to the printers to hopefully get a couple of trial copies done so i know I'll be happy with them. As you can see in another recent post, the cover is completed. It's all coming together, and I must admit I'm a little excited. I also have a message to call the Waterstones buyer tomorrow, so hopefully they want tons of them! Feel free to spot any errors/problems with this if you can, bear in mind it's 8mb now: http://www.rotographic.co.uk/draft1.pdf (if that doesn't work, try copying it into a browser)

No problem Coppers, I've removed the HTTP:// bit to make it non clickable. And that was the one I was thinking of.

Influenced by you lot, this is probably what the cover will look like:

I think Oli meant that the coins are slabbed by American companies (ie PCGS etc etc), which if your thinking of the same website that I have recently noticed then yes they are. I don't know of any British slabbing companies (I've heard of US, Canadian and Aussie). You can mention the website by all means, but as not to improve their search engine rankings, don't make the URL clickable! (wicked aren't I). If it's the same one I'm thinking of, I'm actually going to be buying a few of their coins for an investor customer soon. He may as well keep them slabbed, as even if they do look naff, it does help sell them to some people if the coins are 'Guaranteed'. Unfortunately for high grade expensive coins that may well be an increasing thing on the British coin scene. Perhaps the days of true collectors keeping hugely valuable collections in delightful wooden cabinets are waining.

£50 if it's FDC then!

Went to a Museum did it? I read the other 7 were all in museums.

Steady on old chap, it probably won't be worth much more than £50 even if it truly is in mint condition. I hate getting peoples hopes up.

With respect Julia, I hear words similar to that quite often from novice coin collectors and inquizitive people, and most of the time they are wrong and simply don't have the experience with that particular coin to be able to detect wear on it. Are you able to scan it, register here and then post a picture?