Chris Perkins

Facebook membership is not a prerequisite, I think it should work without it, non?

That was you was it, I noticed that result and knew it must have been a silly mistake. If you're on fb, please like Rotographic Publications!

I wondered who on earth buys all those new coins and gold plated, diamond studded, Tuvalu etc modern issues that we all know and don't love. Well, it seems to be the people on Facebook! There are groups full of thousands of people, swapping, buying and selling such coins! And when you try to talk some sense into them, no one seems to be listening. I'm currently promoting a new Facebook group for Rotographic and thought I'd create a simple quiz to get people interested. So far, only one person out of 32 has got all the answers right. Here it is: https://apps.facebook.com/fb-quizzes/hzuuel And to like Rotographic on Facebook please go to here: https://www.facebook.com/rotographic and press the 'Like' whatsit.

They do yes. Round numbers can usually be sold for a little more than a normal UNC example. What kind of pound note? 1980s, or earlier?

Thank you Dave, very kind of you. And thank you Nick, that's the one!

Anyone know where that topic is about the English/Irish mule copper coin (I think it was a WmIII halfpenny). I can't find it, and it's my forum!

I used chipshop batter (from the UK) which is wheat flour with a raising agent. The only 'tin' we had was a silicon one and the fat was hot but the silicon obviously doesn't have the same properties as metal - in saying that we have managed to make good Yorkshire's in it before, from ready-mix Aunt Bessies so perhaps they just needed longer.

They turned out ok. Only had sunflower oil. The Yorkshires weren't so good, they looked great but sunk and were still a bit doughy at the bottom.

Merry Christmas everyone. I'm doing roast potatoes today (for the first time!) and Yorkshire puddings, for the German side. They've never had roast potatoes before.

Maybe they're shelled suits. Um, I would imagine that it's all done on a computer these days. Someone pops a few quick blobs on the screen and the die gets cut by a machine. Detail has to be low, because time is money and they have to make as much profit as possible from all the nice old ladies that buy stuff for their grandchildren.

The coppers probably are scrap copper in normal used condition. The brass threepences will also be scrap in used condition (apart from 1946 and 1949). The florins and shillings are technically worth face value (in normal used condition, which I bet they are) so the best you can do with those is take them to your bank and try to get them to credit your account with them (florins for 10p, shillings 5p). I have success at Natwest and have also managed it in the past at Barclays. And at the same time you can cash in the large 5p and 10p coins and the decimal halfpennies (although the scrap value for those is actually more than half pee each).

Yes, when making a payment via transferwise you enter the recipients bank account details and the money gets paid in.

What lands at the other end really is 0.5% less than the actual exchange rate. Takes a few days to arrive, but then so do bank transfers to abroad. They don't deal with notes/coins, but I know a man who does if you have a decent quantity.

You won't find better than the exchange rate offered here for sending money abroad: https://transferwise.com/u/e32272 I've just used it to send my printer money from GBP to EUR and saved over £50. When I refer people the referee gets a free transfer and I also get a bonus. Please look into it if you ever need to send money to another currency.

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.

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.

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.

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.