Chris Perkins

Well, I thought I only removed people that had never posted for over 3 months but I may have removed people that made very few posts over a shorter time too. I'm very sorry. You understand these things have to be done to remove all the clutter of members than never do anything. It is not possible for me to reinstate you as such, I'll have to ask you to create another account with the same user name I'm afraid. The last thing I wanted to do was remove active members, I too have seen you round lots, and I'll make sure I make it up to you if you re-join. Terribly sorry.

In the East, near Dresden/Leipzig/Chemnitz, but probably closer to the Czech border, and probably closer to Prague than Berlin. The Erzgebergishe region to be presise.

Well yes, and you are able to store more personal messages, and post larger images. The others will have to aspire to be like you, won't they.

That's right, you 2 are allowed to freely edit your messages at any point you like. That's what you get for being an 'expert member' you see!

How big is your garden Mint Mark, I'm imagining burial mounds here! I found I modern Deutche Mark and 3 DDR Pfennige in the Garden here. As well as a big iron door hinge, chicken ring, screw driver, and countless beer bottle tops.

It's actually a legal requirement that reproduction coins are clearly stamped on one side with the maker initials or 'REPRODUCTION' I believe. I know it looks bloody awful, and I wonder why the fantasy issues don't have that stamped on them. Maybe it's because they do not look like any genuine coins.

Yes an answer would be nice wouldn't it. I'm busy, someone with Krause or an Irish book out there?

There's no doubt he's a slipery character though ;-)

Again, condition is important, and so is the serial number. I don't know much about notes, or where you can find a website, but this book I offer will help: http://www.predecimal.com/books/notesframed.htm

Yes, if it can be proved that it was 'thrown away' rather than hidden I believe. Something like that.

I don't think a single cartwheel penny would be much missed from our history....When you find a Neolithic burial site in your garden, contact the authorities!

No where near! William is, at 11 I believe.

They were never issued originally in plastic cases, you'll find the plastic cases are modern. The exact year that Maundy sets were issued as sets for posterity, and not as coins intended for curculation is not really known with any accuracy. The Romans made commemorative coins, and even in Ancient Greece they made commemorative coins (Postumus Alexander the Great Tetradrachm for example), so perhaps the issuing of sets of one type or another goes back 2000 years before Maundy money!

Yes, sometimes, confusingly, even Uncirculated coins have seen very limited circulation (ie from the bank to the bus company, to you). As long as it has minimal contact marks and no wear whatsoever, then you may label it UNC, as far as i'm concerned.

I think it would still be illeagal if it was gold or of significant historical value and went unreported to the authorities.

To the recent new faces: welcome on behalf of all the existing regulars in the forum. Stick around won't you, there are usually new things in here daily to talk about and respond to. Any problems, come right out and tell me via personal message.

Yes, of course there are unofficial and official earlier and later sets, but I think the original poster was just after info about the 40's-60's perspex sets they had. Worldwide in the history of coinage there are no doubt 10's of thousands of different coin sets!

Ah, well it was close. (Obverse is spelt with an 'S')

That sounds the same as what happened with me years ago. Now it would be very strange if your uncle was also an 'Uncle Peter'?

Not at all, many trial pieces are created in alternate metal for test purposes, and blanks that are the wrong metal have known to be acidentally struck. These do occasionally get into circulation. I have seen a bronze 1970's 5p and own a cupro nickel 1868 Halfpenny, the Halfpenny was a trail piece and the 5p was authenticated by the mint as an error.

Error coins are strange, it simply depends on how much someone is willing to pay for it. With a not too severe rotated die error, I would expect to sell something like that sell for £10-20, posibly less. Serious errors like brockages, wrong metal, wrong blank, off metal strike etc etc are usually worth more.

Yes, it would be good to assess the grade, but any picture will not actually show us anything we've never seen will it! I could scan two sides of a coin and rotate one of them at 180 degrees, and put both pictures together! Unfortunately in this situation, and with such a new coin, a picture is about as useful as a chocolate fireguard.

Aha, yes you see, there is a time limit that the post remains editable for! In order to prevent people completely changing what they said at a later date. So, you have the right to remain silent, but anything you do say may be taken down and used as evidence against you ;-) So you have to stand by your opinions always, because once you made it, you can't take it back yourself!!

Yes, i suppose being franked adds an actual date and place to the stamp, making it historically more interesting.

I don't wish to belittle our newest expert member, the highly respected Mr T (I wonder if he also has 5kg of gold chains around his neck? William....Ask your Dad, or watch UK Gold) Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I didn't really feel Geoff imparted very much knowledge at all in his last post for this thread. He gave a very interesting opinion and provided a few real life examples of things to do with forgeries, but he provided no direct answers to the original questions. (probably because there aren't any, and each fogery has to be judged on it's own merits) So don't go getting all starry eyed over our Geoff, will you William, he's just human! (Geoff, do you have publicity shots available?)