Chris Perkins

Ah yes, so you do. Silly me, for some reason I thought I just sold you the GIII.

All the 1953 varieties (and many others) are listed in the Collectors Coins GB 2004! Oh what a wonderful book that is.

That's awful. Isn't it the ultimate in ignornace when someone is genuinely too ignorant to realise they are complety ignorant!!!

Master JMD, I think Edward is talking about highly specialised information, of the kind that simply doesn't exist on the internet. I also know that Edward is quite capable of using a search engine and finding pictures of coins. Despite Edward's new appearance in the forum, I know for a fact that he has been involved with coins of one form or another for quite a while and already has a high level of knowledge on the subject. We appeciate your enthusiasm (as ever) but please don't overly try to be an authority on everything, it really doesn't read well.

Do you know that officially the French Euro is made up of 100 Centimes? I think most people probably call them cents, but France officially still has centimes.

10 Rappen isn't it, they have 100 Rappen is a Swiss Franc. The lady is 'Helvetica', just like Britannia, Hibernia, Germania, Caledonia etc. Switzerland is like a little Island in a sea of Euro nations.

And now the bandwidth will really start to go down the pan!

Blimey, that woman in your signature Master JMD is probably getting far more pleasure than she really should out of her coin collection! http://www.crecon.com/banners/users/108352...21081finish.gif

Looks good, but the reason the text appears dull and blurry is because you saved it as a fairly low quality jpg, and to save file size space the jpg format kind of mingles the colours together.

Well you need to create an HTML link to that picture. For example: <p align="center"><img border="0" src="http://www.predecimal.com/images2/images/arrow.gif" align="left"> But replace the path: http://www.predecimal.com/images2/images/arrow.gif with the path of your image that is hosted wherever.

When you've done the HTML editing bit, copy the HTML code as text, then paste it into the signature area. The image size sounds fine.

Use an HTML editor and copy the finished text. I have never tried it, but William seems to have images. You have to make sure it's a jpg or gif and not too large. How big is the image?

Louise, To aid your research you can purchase one of these books for only £4.50 plus £2.00 postage: http://www.predecimal.com/books/ccgb2004framed.htm Register in the forum to share your findings and I'll let you have one for just £5.75 including the postage.

I have 2 in the current newsletter William, including another of the 43/34 variety!

Louise, It's a 'Three halfpence' (or one and a half pence). It was made for use in the colonies, but because it is just like larger GB denominations it's often included as a 'British' coin. Values are just a few pounds in F-VF condition.

I have a feeling some of them went into cases officially, I know the 1983 Pound coin did and the 1953 Crown did. I'm pretty sure the 1981 Charles and Di Crown, 1977 Silver Jubilee Crown and 1980 Queen mother Crown went into plastic cases at the mint..... Although I could be wrong, they could be un-official bank issued cases, but there are alot of them around, which would support the official theory.

The reason you are at the top with 'seadart' Bob is because you have probably the only website in the world that uses those 2 words together, or at least uses them together the most. The search engine bots need just follow a link form another site, and there you are, at the top. Being top with 'seadart' is all very well, but how many people around the world actually search for that phrase?? :s Geting to the top with a more common well used phrase like 'British coins' was a little harder, but with the right research and experimentation, not impossible.

I'm not editing all that! Master JMD, can you just post a link to your source?

I think online auctions, especially ebay are major players with large volumes of lower priced (and some higher) coins offered, and I also don't believe they are taken into account when many of the catalogues are compiled. I shouldn't think there would be an automated accurate way of doing it. Any market prices can only be arrived at be educated research. In the end, it's just down to who's educated research you take as gospel. Like most people I think it's best to make your own comparisons and use your own experience to arrive at accurate values.

(Well handled Oli, although you'd be lucky to get £2.00 for one. I sell them for £1 each)

No it doesn't, I don't believe they made cases for them back then, as they were probably intended to be spent. I could be wrong. No one actually knows when Maundy stopped being a thing for the poor, and became an annual thing for the pomp.

The Guinea is. Rest of the gold are commision sales for a gentleman in Barnet.

I'm afraid i didn't get a chance to renew my latest ad with: 'I have £100 to spend on coins this week' Or some such Coincraft spoof, but it's still top priority for the next one. I think there really needs to be less hard sell and stufiness in coin dealing. We need a little lightheartedness, humour and pehraps a little Rock 'n' Roll at the same time. I wonder if the Darkness would endorse me as their coin dealer of choice!! I can picture it now, an image of glam and spandex, with 'I want to spend £100 on coins this week'. 'Predecimal.com, coin dealer to 'The Darkness'! That sounds pretty funny, but I have certainly learn't that most coin collectors are not into trendy music, and that many coin collectors are young, so perhaps that would be a big market to tap into with 'Rock 'n' Roll Coin dealing'

There I am at the top of the list. It took a lot of effort to get there, hopefully I'll stay there for some time.

He's a well known dealer, used to work for Spink i think, and has published books. Search on Google, I believe he has a fledgling web site.