Chris Perkins

Yes, there should be at least 1 in every WH Smith branch, I've had a few reports of the book being seen in various branches. Hopefully they are selling too.

This chap is a former Queens assay master, and Royal Mint employee, he's your man. Please tell him I sent you: http://www.coinauthentication.co.uk/index.html Remember though that British errors really don't usually sell for all that much. The other month I ebayed an aluminium 1976 1p and it went for £20 - £30 if memory serves!

Yes, I got that info too. Good idea putting something in the Forum, I didn't think of that!

If it was a mint error there should be a raised rim around the edge of the blank side, as the blanks were most probably prepared like that before striking. I'd say that it had been machined and then the evidence of it being machined had been worn away. Impossible to say for sure, you'll need to post a picture.

I suspect that you probably have a thing or 2 to learn about proper grading Mitch. I'd be surprised if you end up with a high grade Half Crown for £1.80. Have you seen my lists?

Another Northerner! Me, JMD and HPJ are the only regular Southerners here! Welcome Alex, please do contact me if you need any help.

I think that'll take a while yet. I don't make nearly as much money as I should!

Ah that was you was it! Funds received by the way. I should post them today.

According to a website I read, a consistant rank of 30,000 (on Amazon US) would suggest sales of 1-2 books per day, so probably Amazon UK use the same system. For a few hours it was once at less than 6,000! 1-2 per day would certainly be backed up by the number of books I sell to the people that supply Amazon.

According to the Amazon Rankings, "Collectors' Coin Great Britain 2005" is the 2nd most popular British coin price guide, out of: Spink, Coins of England The Coin Yearbook Collect British Coins (Stanley Gibbons) Collectors' Coins Great Britain 2005 The ranking of CCGB2005 has consistantly been around 30,000 for a couple of weeks, while Spink has been around 15,000. So, I'm pleased about that as you can imagine. Thanks most sincerely to everyone involved, it's a great start so far.

What is a Gold sovereign Gulf war set? Whatever it is, if it contains a full mint condition Sovereign, then yes £60.99 is pretty fair. My advice: Don't be fooled by pretty packaging, or the fact that a coin once belonged to a soldier. I would image those facts would be unlikely to ever make the coin worth more that it would be if it was just a loose coin. If you collect military things, then by all means, collect Sovereigns issued to soldiers that served in wars, but if you want to collect sovereigns, find respectable dealers and buy them loose they'll probably work out cheaper. At the moment a Sovereign is worth about £53 for the gold content, so that's the minimum thoeretically that it should be worth. Gold prices have a major affect on the common and newer Sovereign prices. I have a few: http://www.predecimal.com/forsale/gold.htm

Oh dear, that's a George IV Crown held by a crocodile clip!!! (and it looks better than 'good') Someone email the seller! I hope it isn't one of mine, i've sold a few of those lately.

Phil, The easiest wat to tell the difference is by size. The penny is about 35mm, the twopenny (which is huge) is about 41mm. I have a couple of each for sale, on www.predecimal.com and there were a few in my last newsletter. As a forum member, I'll be please to offer you a little discount.

They were digital photos of that one.

Thanks for pointing out the error, I've changed it now. I think that's already a great price, but £90 to you JMD.

Those of you that aren't subscribed, (fools! ) Newsletter No.10 is here: http://www.predecimal.com/newsletter/number10.htm Almost 300 coins to start with, and they seem to be selling well.

Yes that's the one, it's Westair

Oh dear, yes that's a modern repro without a doubt.

The President told me that Peck left some out that were too worn, even if he was sure they were what he thought they were! Regardless of what was in, and what was out, there is no doublt that some little mistakes were made. Who's doing the next one?

Spink is not about varieties really JMD. Spink does an excellent job of covering over 2000 years of coinage. My book already contains far more varieties for the modern coins! Just imagine, a properly comprehensive book on the British coins of the last 200+ years with up to date values. Nothing like it exists. For those of you that don't follow things in here, here's a plug: http://www.predecimal.com/books/ccgb2005framed.htm

I was just contacted by the President of the London Numismatic Society, who got one of my fliers through the British Numismatic Society, and wanted one of my books. We got talking about varieties, and he was actually in the same room as C Wilson Peck when he wrote his bible! This man knows about varieties that were not included in the book because although Peck was sure, the examples were too worn and he felt they could not be included just in case! Since then, he's published papers, and really knows some super advanced stuff. He lives in Kent, not far from SE London actually, where I once lived, and he invited me along as his guest to the next London Numismatic society meeting (but I can't go, it's in early feb) He said he'll get the book, and give me a call so we can talk about what should be added. He even knows about decimal varieties (and has a 1983 New pence 2p) He said that there has never been a book that lists all the varieties for copper/bronze and silver and I said I'd like to be the first to publish a complete book if he's willing to help. CCGB2008 will be double the size at this rate!

Make sure you show me Livia's bum when I'm round in Feb Millimoo!

Yes it does doesn't it! That's even funnier than my Offa joke.

Yes, hopefully it's settled down. The host people (and I know them personally by now!) said that someone else with another website on the same server had probably installed some dodgy code, and it bought the whole lot down!

That's more difficult. How do you pronounce Stycca?