Chris Perkins

You'd think vending machines would be properly set up to reject fakes (or perhaps they do, but they're just loaded with them in order to give them as change!) Let's see a picture of your Welsh Primary school £1 Dave. When you can.

Gold value i.e about £53.00 each. That's what I would pay, most dealers would try to get them for less than bullion value. I'd hope to sell them for £60 - £65 each after acquiring them for £53. Email if you want to sell them: cp@predecimal.com

When people send me collections that include a couple of Roman coins (as is sometimes the case) I simply identify them and put them in a chronological order with the rest. I have mostly base metal coins now, and probably about 20 different emperors covered, including a few slightly unusual Roman ladies, and a Nero coin! No real direction, I just happen to be in a position that means I accumulate the odd one here and there. i do enjoy idenifying them, and learning about the usually brutal history of the folk on them.

Yes, I spotted those too. I have them both more than once, but I like them!

Rob, If you want to wrap them securely and post them to me I will catalogue them carefully and make an offer based on bullion value or 60% of how I price them up (whichever is greater). The members here will vouch for my trustworthyness. Most of the coins you have are not very special, but a few are nicer for example the Maundy set and the Roman coins. I actually collect Roman coins, so I'll pay a bit more for those. Email me if you like: cp@predecimal.com

Which book? They stock the CCGB2005 and Roman Base. They are showing it as stocked on their website, but may not have them in every branch. I'm pretty sure I can get them to take the forthcoming banknote book too.

No wonder it's so bloody rare if it's that difficult to spot!

No problemo

I have 120 in storage over the road, and 40 here for retail customers. I'm sure I'll sell the 40 before the new edition, and I will probably sell the 120 too, but I don't mind if I have a few left over, I can just discount them.

Ok, Juan, I'll remember you in a couple of weeks and let you know.

I wouldn't say they were halfpenny numerals my friend, probably just a different date punch/die or even just different amounts of wear. The actual halfpenny numerals are actually much smaller (from the illustration in Freeman).

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Tell me about it! I could keep 3 people busy all day with what I try to do.

Some dealers pay full catalogue for rare coins if they know where they can sell it. Let's see a picture.

That's great, I'll have one of those please.

I don't think it's very likely that they reused old reverses after changing the dates on them. That happened in Victorian times, but I doubt quality control would have allowed it in the 70's/80's! But you never know, mistakes do happen.

Collectors' Banknotes 2006 is now going to print! I'm pretty excited about this new book. It's the 4th I've published at the Rotographic helm, and it's the 2nd to be printed in super quality at the new printers. I'll make a PDF version available soon, and have already started selling off some of the banknotes used for the pictures. They are listed on ebay under the id: rotographic So, if any of you want banknotes, I pretty much have a complete type set available for sale, and I need to sell them to pay for the printing costs until the money starts coming in from the resellers.

For the early large 10p's. I'm not too bothered about slow changes, but I am interested if 2 different coins exist for the same date.

Some of you may not be aware (Peck friend Mr D L F Sealy just informed me) that there are 2 slightly different early 10p and 2p types (i'm not sure what dates yet). Apparently the dies were strengthened by adding lines on the tail and nose of the lion on the 10p, and extra lines on the feathers of the 2p. Thus, both variants exist for one (or more?) dates.

It looks suspiciously well rounded to me, which is wrong because seige pieces were usually struck in a hurry without much care (even the 'proper' coinage of that era was often awful). On a quick glance I'd say it's modern, but your pictures are not very good. Any chance of some sharper ones? They're a bit big too.

Yes, Mr Sealy said they are all rare (1992 20p's). I wonder if that 31 million number includes coins dated 1993......Very probably, so the 1992 number is perhaps much lower.

I didn't read it somewhere, I was told it by Mr DLF Sealy, President of the London Numismatic Society and friend of Mr Peck himself (Mr Sealy's name is mentioned in Peck here and there). Apparently there are two different head sizes on 1992, and the smaller is less sharply struck. One of them is rarer, but I can't remember which (probably the smaller)! I've sent Mr Sealy a letter recently, he may have other knowledge well worth extracting!

What's all this with girls! Coins come first always, even my girlfriend knows that by now

It must just depend where the branch is. I expect the managers are responsible for the stock items, and if the branch has no real history of selling coin books, then they are probably unlikely to think about trying. And, it could also indicate that when you looked, the only copy they had was sold. I suspect they probably only carry ones and twos.....Still they bought over 1300 in the past 10 months, so they must be going somewhere.

I saw a CCGB2005 in Gillingham WHSmith. They also had a Coin Yearbook....And acidentally it slipped right down the back of the shelf, and I put mine of full frontal view.