Chris Perkins

Most of them get scrapped for the silver, that's the problem. PM me, I may know someone who can help. I bet you could find 1947's all day long.

I can personally vouch for DAS, he's a good man, if that helps!

Good heavens.

As a kid I found a 1930s florin in change, in the 80s. George VI late 1940s florins and shillings were common. I still sometimes get messages from the people that had saved the Geo VI coins in the 80s/early 90s hoping they may be special one day. They're not.

Don't forget the 1999 normal reverse £2. They made a huge amount of them, but as it wasn't included in the 1999 BU set it's very difficult to find in top grade.

General pointless response to a post made 8 months ago? Smells like spam to me.

First things first.

That's a shame, I could have done with an advertising sales person as I'm not very good at that. Colin's (aboutfarthings.co.uk) advert will be included in the farthing section, and I certainly have nothing against other dealers putting ads in. Anyone? Actually I'll start a new topic...

Thanks Peter, aka R Sleeker. I need to have a look at that old thread when I launched the 2014 edition, as there were some important pointers and opinions. And didn't you say you had an idea for me? Or was that someone else?

Yes, but the Romans have stopped releasing annual commemorative coins! And there are sometimes other developments that I feel I have to put people right on, e.g. the Kew gdns 50p hype and things like that. I'll admit though, that it mainly depends how many I get printed and when they sell-out. It'd be foolish to end up sitting on large amounts of a previous edition that has been made obsolete by the release of a newer one.

I'll update the Rotographic website soon. CCGB predecimal will start at 1760 from the 2015 edition onwards. I'm busy doing it now and hope to have it ready during November, or early December. "Collectors' Coins - Decimal Issues of the UK" will stay as it is into 2015, because apart from the new 2015 issues, there doesn't tend to be much to do annually concerning decimals. That book may end up being bi-annual in fact, depending on demand etc.

Thanks very much. I had that bust third guinea, but not a half.

Can I pinch the half guinea picture for CCGB2015 please?

Someone here that can fix cars! Where are you based goomolique??

I logged in to the BNTA forgeries network thingy just now, eager to see what had been going down. This is the place where BNTA members can go to check for forgery data and submit details and images of forgeries that they have been made aware of. Since it launched in July this year, in its 3 categories (Ancient, English and Foreign) there have been exactly 0 new entries! There are still a grand total of 8 forgeries listed in the database. Doesn't look like it's been all that successful so far.

I think it looks exactly like that! Thanks, that's solved it.

I've had this mysterious coin for a few years, sitting around unidentified. Anyone know what it is? It came with a sticker that reads '3rd SEN'. I have no idea if that makes any sense to someone, or even if the sticker should have belonged to something else. It's 3.3g and about 18mm. Indian or somewhere in that region?

Yes, go for it.

Could I use the half crown in Collectors Coins GB 2015 (and subsequent editions)? I have a later young head image, but not a beautiful earlier one like that.

Excellent, so it's a monogram of R and X. I may start using it in books from now on, I've always liked it. The most similar I could find in my character set was the R with the x on the tail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_prescription#mediaviewer/File:Rx_symbol_border.svg I wasn't sure if they were related. It seems they are.

I cannot reproduce it, but most of you would have seen the 'R' symbol with a short line through its tail to indicate 'Reverse' in older numismatic publications. Where does this symbol come from, what is it called and when and why did it start being used as the abbreviation for the word 'Reverse' ? I can't seem to find it in character sets anywhere. Spink still use it off and on, but most seem to have been replaced with a normal upper-case 'R' to denote 'Reverse'.

The 20p can often tone to a golden colour, I find. This happens a lot less on the other silver coloured coins because the alloy used for the 20p contains a higher % of copper.

The 1910 shilling is a fake. Looks like a Chinese copy. 1945 Half Rupee is probably ok.

I've been watching! Need to see if they use any Rotographic books on set, as they said they might. http://www.rotographic.com/tv-appearence/ I thought the 1st episode was stronger, but on the whole it's very good. I especially like Mr Bishop and his invisible dogs.

Noted.