Chris Perkins

Hello, I'm Chris

Eddie, Can you show me a picture of yours? Either here, or over email? cp@predecimal.com Bullion worth depends what fineness gold it is, should be somewhere between £200-£300. Just because it doesn't look sharp, may mean it's just a badly worn real one. Either way, I'd like to purchase it.

No it doesn't, becasue the fakes are always made of real gold, and a really very good one would be about right with the weight. I had an 1887 Fake £5 the other month, in the end I sold it as bullion. I once heard that the fakes have the wrong amount of rim millings, but I'm not sure what it's supposed to be! The quality of the strike is the most important thing. All remaining detail should be sharp without a slightly rough appearance.

A German Woman won gold in the womens Judo. Scary that.

I have seen late Victorian - early Elizabeth II Maundy money in official looking boxes, but it probably exists in official boxes around those dates.

They are the bane of the coin collecting scene! By the way HPJ, that Low tide is too expensive, you should hang on, you could probably even wait 3 years and pick one up cheaper.

Maybe Dr Nicolson had little respect for the Soho coins struck with the original dies when they were purchased and scrubbed up in the Victorian period. Not the modern 'fantasy' pieces that have been created with new dies.

You say that, and there's certainly nothing wrong with mine. It's interesting though, everyone I talk to in the trade says it's not that good, and they say that they pulled Lobel up on it too.

And he's a nice enough chap too. I saw him at the last London Coin fair and bought my Peck off him.

It was only about a tenner, and I think I got it on Amazon. I do use mine a little, mainly with Roman.

There is a Whitman book: 'Handbook of Ancient Greek and Roman Coins'. I've got it, and it's ok, but I find the language used hard to read 'easily'. I think most of the text was originally written in the 60's (although I could be wrong), and it's very very formal.

No, I haven't. But I've heard the best one is the title by my very own Reverend Author mate: 'Ancient Greek Coins and their Identification' (or a title similar to that). He wrote it in 1979 I believe, and it was published by Seaby. Maybe one day, the 2006 Edition will be published by Rotographic!

Hey, that's just like when all those members of the Coincraft staff find stuff in their vaults! Just imagine how many thousands of 1964 pennies are wrongly lobeled () as 1967 Pennies under Great Russel Street!

What about all the Greeks on here?

Those rotten Athletes always seem to be trying to get one over on the drugs testers, as more and more untestable varieties seem to be emerging. Might as well just let them all use drugs, and the winner will be the one who used the most or best drugs!

Well actually it wasn't my idea. If you look, Marles already has bi-dates in the 2004 CCGB, and has done since the early 70's I think. It's especially helpful for those people that get confused by Roman numerals, and I know there are lots of those!

Right, corrected those. I better get on with adding some pictures. By the way, pleased you liked the Roman numerals in the Gothic florin section becaue I paid £22 for the font, just to use on 2 pages!

The first is a Maria Theresa Austrian Thaler (A popular request). The date was 'frozen' long ago, so the coin is probably very modern and worth about £6.00 for silver content. The second is a Churchill Crown, made in very large numbers and worth £1 at most if it mint condition.

I would hazard a guess at: Lots of the worlds best athletes!

Right O Steve.

Yes, by all means, sort into groups, let me know what you have and perhaps we can do a deal taking postage into account.

For the pre 1946 Silver I pay 4x face value, for post '47 'silver' coins I'll pay 75% of face value and for the copper bronze it depends how good they are. Sometimes I pay up to 20p per readable Victorian penny. Problem is, unless you have an awful lot it's difficult to offset the cost of posting. Where are you located?

Steve, WRL stands for Westland Reproductions Limited and, as the name suggests, they make reproduction coins. I think they use a process which involves sticking the 2 sides together. The coins are generally sold on card backings at castles, tourist attractions etc. Sometimes of course, they get separated from their original packaging. You're not the fist to ask about WRL coins, and I'm pleased we spotted it before you put it on ebay and potentially sold it to a novice for more than it's worth!

Yes, that looks like a copy from the edge appearing to be 2 coins stuck together, and it being too round looking. As it isn't really ancient, I'll move this topic to the British Coins area.

Yes, I thought about resurrecting the titles just fun.