Chris Perkins

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.

Thanks Geoff, done those. I had to OCR a copy of the book to extract the text, as it was quicker than using the stupid DOS programme that RJ Marles had the files on. Some of the errors have been caused by the software reading the wrong letter, and me not spotting them.

This is just a post to bring this forum to the top of the list again!

I'm afraid it's sold now William, I sold it yesterday. Thanks for the comments so far, I'll make ammendments to the master today.

Feast your mince pies on pages 1-27: http://www.rotographic.co.uk/1-27.pdf I have corrected the mistakes previously mentioned and made a few selected additions/omisions. I've added a couple of pages, and the biggest addition was the Freeman numbers for all the bronze coins (except fractional farthings because they're not in Freeman). Thanks to DAS for lending me the Freeman catalogue. So apart from adding the odd picture and perhaps minimal revising, that's the copper/bronze section done and dusted. As ever, let me know your thoughts, and delete the older version which is now completely superceeded.

I had an Anne 1713 Pattern farthing.....Sold it.

Freeman says it's R17 (Probably 16-50 examples)

I like: 'And we'll basque in the shadow of yesterdays Triumph' (Roger Waters, Pink Floyd. Shine on you Crazy Diamond. Wish you were here album 1975) It's a great line, and I have a little sticker of it on the back window of my Triumph TR7. Other motorists can basque in my shadow!

You must be joking, have you seen that Russian girl? She's like Kornakova (spelling?) but more attractive and actually pretty good at tennis! I'd like Portugal to win the football, I'm not a sports fan, but it would be good for moral in Portugal if the home nation could win the whatsit.

I don't know, have you got the latest version of the PDF viewer?

The book would probably have got verdigris too, you know what old books and damp are like! Horse and carriage.

I have a spare copy of Peck's 'English Copper, Tin and Bronze coins in the British Musuem 1558 - 1958'. It's the 2nd (and latest!) 1964 edition. I thought I would offer it here for a few days before putting it on eBay. Price £95 (+ £10 fully insured postage) email me: cp@predecimal.com

Or perhaps Switzerlandia! (No, it's Helvetia, or I seem to remember an alternate spelling of 'Helvetica').

Thanks up to now, I should be releasing another update soon with corrections made, Freeman numbers and a couple of extra pages.

Houses are cheap up north aren't they, what is it? £10,000, £15,000??

My client certainly has the required financial backing, and he wants to obtain at least 100 of them, with my help.

You have to be very rich to persuade me to sell any 1934 Crowns that I might get! I have a customer that buys them all off me, I have supplied (or am in the process of supplying him) 9, and I believe he has about 30 altogether.

Hardly anyone wins Wimbledon 2 or 3 times in a row, so even though Tim has never won (and isn't getting any younger), at least he's consistant! I take my hat off to the man, that's certainly more running around in the sun than I'd like to do.

I think we're fine the way we are. We're not 'the other forums' and without copying them, I think we have a quite lively, different place anyway. We don't need news, you lot are always posting something different every five minutes. These things take time to build up, and as new regulars come on board the amount of variety will increase.

I'm pleased to have added 'Coppers' to the Project CCGB2005 today.

One from Spink, one from a dealer I can't remember who, and yet to be confirmed is another in a recent auction that I bid very high on.