Chris Perkins

I could possibly give you face value for them, I have a buyer for that kind of stuff. If interested, let me know some figures.

Looks a bit fishy to me. One of the hammered collectors/experts is sure to answer soon.

I doubt it, there'll probably still be hundreds of bags around in 300 years

Very crude and not very Romanesque. Definitely a fake I'd say, or something for tourists. What it's supposed to be is a commemorative coin of Augustus (the first Emperor). DIVUS means that he was dead, so theoretically it could have been struck last week, because he's been dead a while!

Yes, it appears on all messages. It was aimed at first at one person, but it didn't just happen once, and I do get annoyed when I waste time telling people about coins, even sometimes looking up information about coins that I would be interested to buy. Only to spot them on eBay with a pasted version of exactly what I wrote! You can imagine that's a little annoying. Doesn't really apply here, so you're more than welcome to put your bags on eBay.

This is an excerpt sent to me by a metal detectorist author: In 1983, when the one-pound coin began to circulate, the Mint produced 400,000,000. Tucked away on the inner pages of a Treasure Hunter issue for that year there's a report of the first lost 1983 one-pound coin turning up as a detector find. Who knows how many of those four hundred millions have slipped from pockets and purses, or down the backs of sofas, since then? What I can say is there's a fair chance that some are now worth .. well, considerably more than one pound will have to satisfy your curiosity for the present, because the collector who bought the specimen I'm referring to declined to say how much he paid for it. Presumably he hopes another might be offered. So please be on the look-out for a 1983 one-pound coin which has what I understand is termed a “coarsely grained†edge - in other words, with fewer vertical lines on its edge than most other one-pound coins. The explanation is thought to be that part of a die used to produce some of the foreign coins the Mint also makes was accidentally used to produce a batch of 1983 one-pounders. Anyone heard about this coarse £1 coin? Syl? Kuhli?

More of these! These bags of 1967/66 Pennies and halfpennies are really very common (although dated 1968, the coins will be 1967) and I get offered them all the time. It's seems people thought if they kept hold of a bag from the millions of other bags, that they might one day be worth more than face value! Well, they are, but not a lot more. I'd offer £10 per bag. The postage costs are then usually the next stumbling block!

Nothing really spectacular comes to mind. Lots of people have the odd coin worth £20 - £75 each, even without knowing it. Very few non collectors have coins worth big money, unless they have coins inherited by a collector, which is always dodgy, because frequently I have to basically tell the people that the coins their loved one collected are basically rubbish and that their values were all overestimated by the late collector!

It's just another rat race, believe me. When in the UK some weeks I have every day packed with people to see, and what they have is quite often rubbish. To be a retired person and spend your time doing it, if the income is not essential is something quite different...Probably quite pleasant, so good luck.

People will always need tables and chairs. I never got an A ever in my life. 2 B's in Sciences at GCSE and a couple of C's was the best I could do. In part due to me being a lazy git. I relied too on my ability to remember silly things and did absolutely zero revisision for anything. These days, at 27 (the age when brain cells start to die and don't get replaced) i'm finding it a little more difficult! I'm learning though, that in business you don't really have to be clever, you just have to be good enough at finding reliable clever people to do lots of things for you!

Peter, Pack them up and send them to me, I'll return a cheque for 60% of how I price them up (or return them at my expense). Lists are a good start, pictures are time consuming. The easiest thing is to simply post them when there are not too many. You can keep the stuff from Isle of Man downwards. I'll be in Kent next week, so you could send them there. email cp@predecimal.com for address details. Thanks,

The book is done and I have some from the printers! Great quality, it's even worth buying one just to own a beautiful thing...Even if you're not interested in banknotes!

Sorry, I meant £70 or £80 would be good enough for me if I was selling one. I mis understood your offer of sale. It just isn't worth the effort for me to buy it for £80, then wait for a buyer for around £90. Sorry, I much prefer gold at bullion value than fancy 'collectors' items.

If you know what you're looking for. I've had success buying sovs on ebay. Once I bought a half sov and when it came it was actually a full sov! I won't tell you how and where I look exactly!

£70 - £80 would be good enough for me.

Like with most things these days, there is a ready supply on ebay! Sovs are easier to sell too, because the weights and gold contents are pretty well known.

Sovereigns are certainly more easy to buy, as they can often be had for bullion value (or a little less if you're lucky). Fluctuations in gold prices will affect sovereigns just like any other coin with gold in it. Sovereigns are far more readily available.

Great. I'm in the UK. I'll sort you out next week!

If they're silver, they'll be worth silver value at least. You may find a novice somewhere to give you more for them. They are essentially a non official novelty modern coin set (made up of coins from some wierd and wonderful countries that seem to only exist to make profit out of coin collectors). I have no time for such items I'm afraid. Get rid of them, and buy something nice!

Is there something hidden inside them? Weapons grade Uranium or something? That could be the only reason they want them so badly, surely, or or they just mad?

Mr Fenton is Knightbridge coins isn't he. My mate Richard knows him. They do really want those coins don't they! Crazy.

If you send them to me fully insured to arrive between 9th - 16th Sep I'll give you the bullion value for them (whatever it is on the day) and I'll send money via BACS (or cheque): Mr C Perkins 134 Skinner St Gillingham Kent ME7 1JZ Make sure they get there between those dates as that's when I'm there.

I'm not sure of the exact gold value right now, but a Quarter Kruger is about the same size as a Sovereign, so I would suspect the gold value for them both would be worth £100 - £110. Even if the coins are worth more on paper (say £60 - £65 each) you may as well not mess around and take melt value for them.

Bloody hell Oli! You know, as a 'comp' school boy, I'll simply have to beat you up at the London coin fair for that!

The Kruger is certainly a bullion coin, as is the 1912 Sov unless it's really perfect. If i paid £55 for the sov I'd hope to perhaps sell it for £65. But I wouldn't pay £65 for it, that would be silly. The jewellers are being entirely fair with you.