Chris Perkins

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).

I've got a nephew that was born in 2013. Instead of 2013 I'm going to go for 1913 for him (when one comes along in a collection). 100 years earlier, better value, actually circulated and some real handheld history instead of peddled RM modern junk, struck in appallingly low relief. The 1980s Machin coins are quite nicely made compared to the modern ones.

I've probably had hundreds of varieties and have just paid them into the bank without looking! I don't think anyone likes to look at them for longer than is absolutely necessary, so maybe varieties have been missed. Perhaps you can post a picture.

I've recently put some new coin on the website, including: An Anne 1714 Farthing (P743 'ANNA REGINA') Most of the 1990 to 2014 £5 crowns in UNC or better A couple of older crowns A few inexpensive random foreign coins A few farthings, sixpence, pennies and other denominations

No certificate will mean that the coin was originally in a set and has been broken up, so had no single cert originally (the cert would have mentioned all the coins in the set). There isn't really a difference in value between normal striking and proof as far as I'm concerned. Both were made in very large numbers - large enough numbers to always satisfy the small demand for them. A stonking faultless UNC-normal (and they usually are UNC as they didn't circulate) or Proof versions may be worth a small % over the current bullion value, so I would have thought you'd be able to currently find one for under £200. I buy them at just under bullion where possible and if I had one I'd price it just over. Not sure what EF uncirculated is though, as it can only be one or the other and in fact finding one worn down to EF is probably quite difficult! Perhaps it indicates that the packaging is EF and the coin UNC. I expect it's a birth year so only 1981 will do, but I've currently got a few earlier years on offer here: http://www.predecimal.com/coins-sale-british-gold-coins-c-51_187.html

I can't see any rare coins in the RM picture. The real rarities are of course the cock-ups - 1983 NEW PENCE 2p and the Olympic Swimmer 50p with lines on her face. My favourite scarce (or perhaps it also counts as rare) decimal is the 1999 standard reverse £2 coin. They simply cannot be found in UNC/BU condition simply because the 1999 year set didn't include one for some odd reason (it included the Rugby commem). It's not a low mintage at all, but it seems all 38 odd million of them got used and abused. That's one for the future, if you can find one! I can't.

I hate it when that happens! Nothing worse than going to buy coins and sensing that the seller is starting to take a real interest in them and wants to keep some/all.

Oh yes, it mentions the altered date even! RRR in a recognised and highly regarded work like D&H can't be a bad thing even if some of the R ratings are out of date.

There are so many varieties of this token, and also known forgeries. D&H nos. 77 - 102 plus umpteen forgeries. I would imagine the cocked up date may indicate that it's a counterfeit (which are rarer). You'd probably search long and hard to find someone that specialises in just these Mining and Copper Company tokens in the hopes that he/she would pay above the odds for it.

Would have sold for about £30 without the hype. Good luck to the buyer when he wants to sell it. And the article states it's the only silver 2p in the world, even though it's not the only one and it's not silver.

I think taking the nick out of the edge was a mistake. The XMF machine proves they are genuine to me, as I think they read the metal past the first fraction of a mm, under the surface, which generally rules out any form of plating.