Chris Perkins

I suppose the earlier ones, perhaps George IV to 1901.

Actually I meant to say 'a rainbow', but the band kind of did the same. Although they did have more songs than that all time rock classic 'Since you've been gone'. And they were involved with Deep Purple a lot. (I know they shared members along the way). I once had a girlfriend who's dad went to school with a Deep Purple member.

No, most of it's crap and just plays the same crap as most crap British Radio stations. In the whole of Europe the 'mainstream' music industry is simply about making as much money as you can in as short a time as possible from some young nobody who will fade away quicker than rainbow.

Yes, I'll add you to the list above. Thanks very much.

I put Pink Floyd and classical in the same grouping. Had Beethoven, Händel, Mozart etc had the same equipment as Pink Floyd, they would have created the exact same style music, I bet. Or at least it would have had the same amount of feeling put into it.

The time has come I think, for us to gather as many British coin prices as possible. The database is ok for general stuff, but it would be great if those of you that want to could look specifically for price data on all the Brtish coin types. I thought about something like this: Farthings, Oli (and fractionals) Halfpennies, HPJ Pennies, Custard1966 and JMD (including Catwheel 2d) Threepences/Groats Sixpences, Sylvester Shillings, Aethelred Florins, William Half Crowns/Crowns. Geoff T Decimals That's by no means set in stone, so lets discuss who wants the other denomination here, and of course if you are happy with your assigned denomination? You can get the info to me however you like, via email, post, over the phone, whatever. All info should include an accurate grade, the date, any valid variety info, and if possible who sold the coin and when. Oh yes, and remember, I'm just concerned with copper 1797 onwards and silver 1800 onwards. I do also want proof data.

I don't think they are forgeries. The massive difference between the weight of gold and brass, and their high face value would surely mean that no one would accept a brass guinea! I think they were produced for novelty purposes, and then of course again 'In memory of the good old days' by the Victorians.

Well here's a little news I picked up today from Mr Marles. In the mid 60's when the CCGB forerunner 'Check your change' was selling by the million, and Marles and co. were making loads of dough....None other than Mr Lobel (I don't think he was called Coincraft then) wanted to buy the rights to that book. Marlesey went to meet him in London, but Lobel thought the asking price was too high and it came to nought (or half a page of scribbled lines). (Those of you into real music will be able to spot the Pink Floyd lyric there. Points awarded for song title, album and year.) So, how things could have been different if it had gone the other way. Perhaps the CCGB would have just been a non existant part of the Coincraft catalogue, and perhaps our very own little book as it is today would not exist at all. By the way, I heard a little birdy on the numismatic street that said there will not be another revised Coincraft catalogue.....And I mean 'ever', or certainly not in a few years.

Yes, decimal is in. So are commems of course.

They are Brass Guinea/Half Guinea copies. Probably made as gaming tokens by the Victorians, rather than as forgeries at the time. Not worth a great deal as far as I'm aware. Pop them on ebay and post a link here, i'd like to see how they do, as I have quite a few somewhere.

I've emailed Geoff, telling him where to go.

Blieb cool man, I know! And I know it's in good hands.

I had a feeling someone would say that! No doubt you beat Oli to it. The thing is, no one is ever out of line in here, so at the moment Sylvester and I can more than handle things.

Well i'm disheartened by your lack of attention, especially as my only moderator! We're not talking about much special, just the number and type of entries in the Rotographic coin database.

I have been known to wash waxy bronze/copper it soap and water too but I always fear that the action of getting them wet may do harm! I suppose that probably isn't the case if they are dried properly.

That's a very good point Edward, but like you say, at the moment I really need everything. From 50p coins to £50,000 coins!

I think it would work out much more than 10.2p per mile, if you take in maintenance costs, and of course ridiculous insurance costs for a 19 year old on anything more powerful than a Reliant Robin.

I happen to know that young Sylvester does actually have a driving licence. Don't you old chap?

Are you going backwards from EII, or forward from Edgar when you get stuck at GII William?

Yes, lucky me! As you know, all you lot are officially helpers anyway, so you'll all get one. At this stage I think Mike Jones deserves one too!

I just thought for fun I would reveal the big contributors to the British Coin price database on www.rotographic.co.uk. There are almost 250 coin price entries in there now and I have started looking over them and converting them to excel format for easier viewing. If you have entered 1 or 50 pieces of data, it's all good stuff, and I really am grateful to you, so don't feel bad if you not on this list. The top 5 database contributors are: Name (number of entries) Chris Perkins (80) Custard1966 (66) Master JMD (31) Kuhli (18) Mike Jones (15) The rest are made up from (in no order) William, Emp Oli, Edward, Half Penny Jon and 4 passers by! Keep up the good work.

Here's my timetable: 9.30 (or thereabouts, often later) Get up. 9.31-23.00 (or thereabouts, often later) respond to ridiculous badly puctuated, lower case enquiries about Princess Diana coins from Tuvalu, and other such rubbish.

The rich list thing in the papers, I fail to see how it can be accurate when the Queen is concerned. I know that the public have a claim to some of her luxuries, but how can you possibly put prices on those antiques and castles? Can you imagine how much the Crown jewels would fetch on eBay?? No one could guess high enough.

Probably, but after the Crown jewels! Stranger things have happened. I read that the Queen is selling some of her London demi palaces near to Buck house at the moment. I think the cheapest was £13.5million. I didn't realise she owned the whole of Regent Street!

Not heard of any.