Chris Perkins

My uncle Peter got married in the national maritime Museum last weekend. I used to live not far from there, and uncle Peter is about the only member of the family that still lives where we 'came from'. Oh well, that was obviously nothing to do with the coin, but it does seem like we have an answer for Daniel. Thanks Kuhli, very well done.

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I'm not! I was much rather hoping you lot would do the cover, and you're doing just fine. I hear what Geoff is saying about having a variety of coins, including a modern one on the front cover. I also understand that aethetically perhaps just one or two coins would be better than cluttering the cover with more. I like the Gothic florin covers....Nothing to do with the coin, it just looks good with one single large coin on the front. What about some kind of design with 2 coins overlapping, with perhaps a Cartwheel twopenny reverse in the foreground to represent where the book starts, and a 'New pence' twopenny reverse just behind it to represent this years ridiculous modern rumour? Perhaps both images could be the same size as that would look better.

Edward, are you ok with a 2mb email attachment? I could email it.

It works ok for me. I've deleted it, and re uploaded it just now.

Thankyou very much, I'll check it out and I'm sure I'll be using stuff. I've already taken your halfpenny, posted above!

Oh yes, that thing will be going, I just haven't got around to doing the foreword/contents/introduction kind of pages yet. The list is useful for novices, I'll try to squeeze it in somewhere, but it does look like a contents page, when it isn't! And you're right about the dates, I actually didn't mean to go back that far, but seem to have gotten carried away! I wanted it to overlap into GIII, but not to cover it all. I want to carry on with the Collectors George III Coins book, and with your help, create a really wonderful volume on GIII alone. I originally wanted to start at 1800 with silver, and 1797 with copper. I'll change the next version to scrub those carried away 3d's!

I think so, but it will affect the cost. I'll get some sample stuff done at the printers soon, perhaps the bronze/copper section as a mini book, as that bit is already done. Regardless of the extra cost I would very much like to have a colour image on the cover.

Sylvester: Do that on a white background, ink costs money! Edward: I like to think there are differences between the best way to market things to a UK audience, compared to a US one. Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps we respond to exactly the same things, but personally I deplore some US style marketing, the kind we see increasingly on cheap cable tv/shopping channels these days. I don't need a Chi energy machine, nor do a want a ball that rolls around the kitchen floor by itself, cleaning at the same time (yes, we have those dubbed adverts in Germany) and that kind of advert makes me deliberately want to do all I can to not by things advertised that way. So the books will stay as damned well British as I can keep them...Even if it involves obsessive nit picking

Yes, that's pretty good, but would a regular reader know it was 'CC'? I'd like to move away from the old fashined image, I suppose I need to stick my toe in the water and just try something without worrying to much about it.

I agree with Oli about the shadowed lettering. Makes it look a bit superman, if you know what I mean. I like Aethelreds blue/white attempts and I think Sylvester's needs some attention! This is all good, perhaps I'll pick a few of the best and either use one, or use the basic ideas. Haven't decided yet.

Like your Led Zep signature Aethelred, one of my most favourite bands.

Yes of course, looks like a fake shilling...(23mm, more like sovereign size, but brass fake shillings are very common)

That's certainly 3,000,000 times better than the current cover!

Yes, I got a CD from the good doctor myself and thought I'd market it properly. £20 including postage to forum members. Dr Sriro sends them out himself (he's in the US).

I don't, but I have a few. Have you seen this on my website, it's fantastic, and more up to date than D&H: http://www.predecimal.com/books/condor_tokens.htm (it's in the book section, that's just the frame)

No, it's brass, and would have originally been silvered to be passed off as a Half Crown. No one would ever have accepted a very light Half Crown sized gold coin, which would have been an ovbious fake. People would have been more likely to accept a sligtly underweight Half Crown.

Thanks, I could certainly make use of that. What I will probably do at some point in ask you lot if you kind find certain images for me to use. I can find most from my own images or from using Colin Cookes, but there will be others I will need, I'm sure.

For a start it's not a £5.00 coin, only modern (from 1990) Crowns were made legal tender for £5.00. Until then they were 5 shillings, or 25p. If it's in mint condition it'll be worth about £1, if not then face value 25p.

I expect it was the front page headline, in such a sleepy Northern city

Happy birthday Geoff! Where would we be without our very own 'Father of the forum'? Thanks for all your input over the months, and I'm sure I speak for us all in wishing you a rather good Birthday.

Yes, and please don't get excited by the earlier Catwheel responses, the large copper coin is worth just £20 or so in that condition, trust me, I've sold enough of them.

She's (I assume Allamanda is a she) not a member, so she can't post pictures yet.

I heard from RJ Marles today, he asked if I wanted him to do the 2005 as usual and suggested he put the new Four Minute Mile 50p, The Fourth Bridge £1, and the Steam Loco £2 on the fornt cover!! I politely decilned and just asked for his price data. I know that it for some reason has been a tradition to feature the latest coins on the front cover in recent years, but for gods sake, they look poo compared to some of the older designs, and frankly who really wants to know what the new coins are worth, when it's already fresh in their memory what they paid for them. I think quality older coins are what's needed on the front cover, doesn't have to be anything that valuable, just a nice old BU something.

I don't know much about hammered coins, but I doubt a real one would state 'Henry Tudor' on it. 1485 was Henry VII, but I think all the legends were in latin, so 'Henricus', not Henry Tudor. I would suppose it's a modern repro, but don't take my modern milled orientated word for it.