Chris Perkins

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.

A bargain if it includes the wreaths and a gothic, but I suspect it's just a load of bullion common date coins that they've sourced from eBay!

Exactly, i emailed him amd he emailed back *TEXT REMOVED* but also changed the grade to the DNW grade. Its not like the coin is'nt identifiable with the large E inscribed in the field. *TEXT REMOVED*, he can make all the profit he wants, i have a problem with large grade increases though.In my email i told him i posted both links onto a well known british coin forum, *TEXT REMOVED*, when i checked it, it was back to NVF, so now his £950 price Tag looks expensive Removed some potentially untrue accusations?????? WTF? I know you emailed to say he'd asked you to remove my comments but now you're basically saying my comments are lies??????Sorry but i'm certainly not happy that you've taken a side Chris when the evidence was obviously there for another member to also comment, Feels like some censorship going on Dave! You can't say things/make accusations that you cannot confirm are absolutely true beyond any reasonable doubt whatsoever, and the parts of your post that I removed were either profanities or were accusations that I know you cannot be 100% sure of - and therefore potentially libellous. If I were taking sides and pussyfooting around the internet all day without wanting to upset anyone, I would have simply deleted everything and probably would have given up the forum years ago! Instead, on this occasion I have stripped it down to the bare-bone facts. I also put in a good word for you with the seller. Would you rather I had just deleted everything as if it never happened? I bet that would have annoyed you even more. We have established as fact that the grade was changed and the seller agreed that it was changed and has stated to me that the original grade it was listed as was a typo. So there we are, problem solved. I don't judge whether things are true or false, or whether you are right or he is right. Even if you disagree with something, you can't prove otherwise, so keep it zipped until such a time as you have something negative to say about someone that you can prove (and I mean really, really prove)! Another member agreed with you? The other member agreed with you that the seller had deliberately wrongly described a coin (i.e. given it a higher grade) in order to make a profit? No, they didn't. The other member simply stated that they agreed with the grade assigned to the coin by DNW. Sellers can actually claim whatever grade they like when selling a coin, and I know it gets on your nerves (and mine, and other people's nerves) when something is bought, up-graded and then priced higher for a quick profit. It is indeed a shady activity, but there's actually nothing legally wrong with that. Opinions on grades can differ. The only way to prevent novices paying too much money for too high-graded coins is to educate them, and that's what we're here for. I have nothing against you rooting out bad practices and using my forum to bring them to light, because that's good and there are so many cowboys out there that people should certainly be warned about. This forum is easy to find and I'm sure we have collectively prevented a lot of people from buying dodgy coins from dodgy sellers (e.g. those gold plated modern Crown proofs that were slabbed in error as solid gold and were fraudulently offered as such by an unscrupulous individual - and very nearly purchased innocently by someone until he googled and found this forum and the warning). Please, in the future, only make allegations about people when you can prove repeated untoward selling practices beyond any reasonable doubt.

Like with all coins, it's mainly condition that affect the value. Rarity and desirability does too, but the main factor is condition. Better than average condition will mean higher than average/bullion prices.

Oh, let me butt in here, say hello and then unashamedly point out the sovereigns currently on predecimal.com, here: http://www.predecimal.com/coins-sale-british-gold-coins-c-51_187.html Forum members get 10% off.

Is there enough vomit in the world, is what I usually find myself wondering on the occasion that I have to peruse the RM website (new issue information for Collectors' Coins - Decimal Issues).