Chris Perkins

Don't email her, reply in here and make her jolly well come back and look! Who does she think we are, a private coin valuation service! It's a discussion forum for heavens sake Value is around £11.00 for an 1838 Cent in fine condition, much lower if it's lower than good, and much higher if it reaches EF.

Yes, actually I have a proof 1970 Penny and Halfpenny Master JMD.

Yes!! I think I will start using a pocket piece, it shall be an 1858 two Konekh from Russia! I think that's probably a 2 Kopek William. You cannot directly convert the cyrillic letters into their nearest looking western version.

Yes, of course you can, as long as it isn't made public, what goes on behind closed doors is your business. But don't send endless messages, think of my bandwidth too!

If you break it open you'll probably end up dmaging it, and all the coins will instantly start toning, especially the bromze. It'll always be worth more as it is, providing the coins are not toned.

Couple of good points raised, i'd go along with those! Maybe I'll send autographed photos to members or something

The rules are governed mainly by your own morals gentleman, go against those rules of judgement and you get banned. If you say something out of line, you have to live with yourself, we don't! What I mean to say is: I'm easy, you know that, just don't be nasty or illegal (except if using the personal meassage facility)

Yes, I don't have my copy yet, but I just heard 10 mins ago from a numismatic author contact! I remember writing something to Carol at Token Publishing about the radio prog, because I was exciting about just having done the first programme and just wanted to tell her all about it. At the end I kind of dared here to put that in 'her' magazine! Two months later and there it is, under the headline 'A Star is Born', so I hear. Watch this space, I have something even bigger on the horizon and don't intend to peak just yet!

Yes, I had a wonderful red 1977 Spitfire 1500. I loved that car, but unfortunately it was written off by a bloke in a Citroen. His insurance paid out though, but I never got another.

No, I'm afraid I don't have anymore tucked away. I've had a good few Triumphs in my time though. I think the red one at the top was No. 14 when purchased almost a year ago. I was averaging a different Triumph every 8 months at one stage! Eat, sleep breathe 'em.

If I had anything, I'd probably end up loosing it.! I sometimes like to carry a fiver around, then I sometimes whip it out to show people what a real banknote should look like, in comparison to the Euro tosh (I hate the Euro notes much more than the coins). Then on my next UK visit I end up spending it usually.

At least you don't get old people in schools (no offense old people, we are truly grateful for your experience)

What if I actually am Dee Sniner? Or look a bit like Dee Snider in some respects? I like Dee Snider representing me! You are the 'people', the customers, the forumees, so maybe in order to keep your support I may have to bow to the pressure.

I've handled 4 1934 Crowns, have a couple of mis struck coins that I believe to be very rare, and I have a Cupro Nickel 1868 Halfpenny (courtesy of one of the forum members). Others have passed by too, but I can't remember them all.

Geeky Moi (AKA Dungeon and Dragons, role playing John with a scary mask), My hair is not the colour you describe, if you take the time to look at it closely you'll find it's a mixture of different colours, from blonde, right the way to dark, almost brown in places. You have clearly never seen a real ginger person John. Thanks for the free advert, as if I needed it among my loyal forumees, but it's nice to have a non coin collector point of view. Now F*$k off! Only joking mate! Is Kelly still there? Jim? Still see Richard? Shaun?

I'm not asking for any money, but any money would be gratefully received. Donors will not get increased privaledges or anything like that. I don't want to be seen as a charity!

Thanks for your donation Bob, hopefully you've opened the floodgates!

Look on the Colin Cooke website Master JMD, the fully story about it is there.

Yes, that's my 'UK Triumph'. These are a couple of pictures of the 'German Triumph' that I have downstairs in the garage right now. It looks nice, has a set of 15" MGF alloys on it, which I feel are far superior to the standard Triumph 13" alloys. Apart from that (and the CD/MP3 player), it is completely original, and has covered less than 37,000 miles since it was built, in Solihull, in the June of 1981.

That's just silly, it would cost you more to post it! (by the way Sylvester, your cheque is in the post. Sylvester sells his coins the easy way, and in doing so, he helps keep little coin dealers going! )

Well that's very kind of you to offer Kuhli, and your 50p decimal would be great too Bob. I'll perhaps create a paypal donation button and put it on the bottom of the forum at some point. Or cash/cheques, paypal to cp@predecimal.com are all very welcome. I have until the end of the month before Lee, at my hosting company will probably ask me to pay extra. He has been letting me off for months now, and I had some time to try and reduce the B/W, but haven't had much luck.

I worked with John when I was at Bromcom Computers (http:/www.bromcom.com) for just over 3 years about a year and a half ago. He'll a good chap, if a little geeky and colour blind.

John!!!!! I knew that was you from the name, you really didn't need to put so many hints in the post! You can probably get the broadcast on AM in Sydenham you know. Didn't you use a similar email address to scare the life out of me by claiming to be someone that I didn't want to know about me Bloody Git! How are you mate? And how is everyone at my former employers? I emailed Kelly the other month, never got a reply, is she still there?

Strictly speaking the display of the Swastika is still illegal and punishable by fines and even prison sentences. I have a feeling though that it either doesn't apply to numismatics because they are in a way contemporary 'documents' for historical study, or they turn a blind eye because the coins are so widespread still. I suspect that it's probably an eBay policy regarding where they can and cannot be sent, for fear of them being sold to Neo Nazis...It could even be the sellers policies. I tried to do some eBay research into WWII helmets, as I have one, but when trying to browse from Germany, the WWII German helmet section was barred! I currently have quite a selection of 2 Mark, and 5 Mark coins, as well as the smaller denominations. Shall I make a list for you?

This is a picture of my 1972 Triumph 2000. Taken on the same day, but not in Luton. Wonderful 70's luxury, and it gobbled up about 500-600 miles of motorway last week with just 2 flooded float chambers (easily sorted, adds smell and character!) Not bad at all when you consider she is actually older than nearly all the motorways themselves!