Chris Perkins

First is a British Threepence, second is a New Zealand threepence. Both are worth very little unless in mint condition (and even in mint condition they are just worth a couple of pounds)

I'd hazzard a guess that the car is a Bentley 4.5 Litre and that the token was issued at a shell garage. The Shell company often make little collections of car, football and goodness knows what else coins. I would imagine it's pretty new, probably no older than the 50's. Maybe it was part of a series of British Sports car coins, one from each decade or whatever.

What a strange thing that is, why and how would anyone do that? Maybe it's a secret club symbol, you know, funny handshakes, right nipples out, and all that. Maybe it was cursed or something, and that's why it was thrown away

In Germany we're supposed to seperate paper, glass and plastic from the rest of the rubbish and put them in different bins. It's such a drag, especially when many things are made of 2 different things. Like Jiffy bags with paper on the outside, plastic bubbles on the inside etc. The authorities have been known to actually check what rubbish come from whom, and there are fines and probably even prison sentences! We have a blue bin for paper, an area for glass (but only milk and i think Wine bottles. The other glass bottles have to go back to the shop), a yellow bin for plastic (which should be cleaned of foodstuffs first) and a dark bin for the rest. We have to clean the yoghurt pots and other plastic packaging before throwing them away. Non PET plastic bottles have to be taken back to where you purchased them for the return deposit. Because people can't be bothered to return the drink bottles, and especially in summer, some areas run out of bottles, so they have to make new ones anyway. The fact you have to take them back to where you got them is a nightmare too, especially if you're travelling. I have a coke bottle from Berlin that i've had for a year and a half because I haven't been back to Berlin! I so look forward to going to the UK and just chucking everything into one bin without having to clean them, split them up and risk being arrested if I don't! But of course it's better for the environment, and the UK is way behind the lengths the contintal peoples go to. Although I heard that the transport costs of getting all the packaging/bottles back to the factories or reprocessing plants, as well as having to supply seperate bins, and pay different companies to collect different things, the extra time it takes in the shops to seperate the returned bottles by type/colour, that it would probably work out cheaper to just make new packaging and bottles!

Now don't be too hard on the poster William, that's actually quite nicely written compared to some of the emails I get from the brain dead morons, in 'What's it worth' land.

This sounds like an unofficial set of 10 coins from 10 commonwealth countries all dated 1977. If so, it's nothing special, but I won't speculate until we get some decent details!

The reverse pic is the St George one above I believe.

You know, you may laugh at the eco warriors, but every green party in Europe has the same ethics and could probably unite far more easily than the other parties ever could. Can you imagine a super European Green party? I saw a thing on TV. They even have pan Europe Green party meeting now you know.

The tone goes all wrong, it kind of looks clean and yukky. I had a friend at school who had such sweaty hands he could do it just by holding a coin for an hour or so. Yuk

Very well put, and they are available in far more varieties.

Great. All the best,

Email me tony: cp@predecimal.com, and we'll talk about this.

Tony, That's a tall order. I don't know if there is anyone that would have the time to do software like that and include data for all world coins, with those features. It is something that would be saleable, so if you can do it, perhaps we should go into partnership and offer Krause a run for their money!

Thanks, That dealer appears to basically be an ebay seller with a web page or 2, and they seem to specialise in tokens, which is great. Thanks.

Hmmm, I sense a conservative flavour in the forum.

Hey, that's like, no problem man!

I'd say it's probably very unlikely to be fake, unless it looks too nice to be true. You'll have to show us a picture.

You have to reduce the size of the picture via paintshop or something like that, so you have a small clear picture you can use, instead of using a huge one and having the forum software struggle to re size it.

They don't make 'em like they used to do they. I'm sure the Duke of Cumberland didn't let the peasants bother him too much though.

No that's ok, that is a big help. I'd also noticed that the low grade ones tend to sell for £2-5, the better ones around £20.00, and UNC examples £50-70. So when I get around to it, I'll price them accordingly. Thanks,

Well what did you expect? It's only 34 years old, and was spent as legal tender right up until the 1990's. If the time coins were made was represented by a 24 hour day, your 5p would have existed from about Quarter to midnight until now...It's not old, and they made them by the million. Can you tell me, because this interests me...What was it that made you think that such a new coin would be in anyway exciting? I'm not being patronising, it's just that as a coin dealer I cannot understand why people get excited by ordinary coins that are dated well within living memory. Is it because of all these programmes on TV about going to get 'old' bargains at car boot sales, the fact that the media seems to lead you to believe that anything over 10 years old is rare and valuable? Or are you very young, and don't remember the 5p's being that larger size?

Damn right, it's all the bloody same, they just wear different coloured ties, and make you believe that there really is some kind of choice.

I'm not down with the kids anymore, exactly who is that Miss Moore, that you so desire?

Erm, 5p. Unless you could pass it off as a 10p (I didn't tell you that!) If it's in mint condition, it'll be worth slightly more, but an average circulated 1970 5p is about as interesting as the most boring man in the world.

Probably yes, but if they were just average circulated/worn British coins they probably were not worth anything in the first place! Why not try to use lower case and a little punctuation next time, it's so much easier on the eye.