Chris Perkins

My Uncle Peter, who was quite well travelled gave me a few foreign coins that he had collected from foreign visits, I remember some Russian Kopeks and American Quarter dollars. That started my little collection off. The first British coin I remember having was a very worn 1921 Florin, and I got into British coins from there. I too am too young to remember £SD but also remember spending florins and shillings as 5 and 10p's. I used to bunk college to go to coin shops and have been into coins since I was about 7 I think. Chris

Maybe he thought you had a bigger one...So to speak. Chris

Welcome to 2004 Olli! Sylvester can just right click it and copy it from above! Chris

Erm, well now the image is in my webspace, is it mine or Ollis still? Chris

Oh My God, that is awful, those bloody hyped up Westminster collection people, they're worse than Coincraft! Great coin for British Neo Nazis though!

It would be "Freunde", and now, many English titles stay English. Chris

Well they do a bit especially when you know the actors real voices, but they do try to be accurate and get voice over artists with matching voices....In fact 'Friends' dubbing is very good, I could recognise all the characters German versions without looking. And usually in expensive productions they try as best as they can to get the voice going in time with the lips. Chris

See me things!! Please

Yes, good point. Strange how a relatively modern period of coin production seems to be inaccurately or not at all recorded. Will the truth ever be revealed, I wonder. Chris

Probably up to 1763 I would have thought, until the £100 worth of Nothumberland's. Who knows??!! Nobody. Chris

I find the 1952's sell for £3-4 even in Good, but you can't go far wrong swapping that kind of toot for high grade silver coins! I bet he'll use them as wedding sixpences. That's very popular over there, and unless he's a mormom with 20 daughters he may sell them on, or perhps as Brian May style Guitar plectrums! I recently arranged the sale of 1000 non silver US half dollars to be used in Italian magic tricks by the 'Great Ernesto' (ok, it's just Ernesto, but the 'Great' added feeling!) Talking of plectrums, I once had a Japanese Guitar shop manager buy all my EII Sixpences to be sold as Brian May plectrums in Japan! (Brian May actually uses a sixpence as a plectrum) Rock On Chris

I'll see it in a couple of years no doubt when they've dubbed it and show it here. Chris

That's interesting...I just read that during the first 10 years of the reign of George III (1760-1770), £3,810 worth of farthings were struck all from the 1754 George II Dies. That equates to 3,657,600 1754 farthings on top of the original 1754 farthings. Chris

Sylvester, Well to sell it retail i'd obviously sell for more like £300 but would really expect it to go that quickly. You got it for a good price, and I'm expecting the 'Mystery' sixpence hopefully tomorrow, so watch this space. Chris

Sylvester, Yeah that worked....Right an offer. I suppose £200 if it shows no mounting traces? Maybe we could do something with that sixpence I mentioned. Chris

Sylvester, You should get a 'File attachments' prompt under the box you write the post in? I had a look at the permissions and cannot see a reason why you are not getting that...yet. I was not able to follow your link, it said 'not allowed', or words to that effect. Chris

Yeah, I've bought a few blind lots from Lockdales and they normally take me ages to re sell with about a 10% profit in the long, long run. Hardly worth it most of the time. I might make it one of the prerequisites of forum membership that you are not allowed to sell anything on ebay and have to support me Anyway, failing that at least I have you! Actually, I've bought too much lately and I should really sell something big, like my 1937 Sov to make up for it. Chris

Dan, I see your VIP HC has finished. Super price, but to a very new person, so best of luck with it. Chris

Sylvester, I was never lucky enough to make a first contact. If you could tell him about predecimal.com and ask if he would consider cross linking i'd be very grateful. Chris

Good old Tony Clayton again. I emailed once or twice to see if he would cross link, never got a reply!! I refuse to link to him now, but his site is bloody good. Chris

Are you refering to the fact that you may buy things, and if not entirely satified for one reason or another pass them on to me? Love your style! You can learn lots from this man folks....Sell me your bloody coins too, please. Chris

To quote the ebay 'seller': 'Its a very good chance to complete a penny collection, or indeed a 'head' colllection.' Well I'd love a collection of head! You'd probably get a lot of head for £250! Really pisses me off when I see the old car salesman phrase used when describing coins.... 'Good condition for age'!!! Crap, they should be in perfect condition regardless of age! Chris

No, that was me! I was messing around with the page layout, deep in the darkest depths of the php code and I forgot to put the buttons back properly!! I've finished now, and the main change is that the main menu is incoporated into the page code (top and bottom) and not running in a seperate frame like before... Which looked a bit Mickey Mouse. It also means that you use less connections, so it should work a little smoother. Chris

I don't think I want it that much! I'll keep an eye out for a second hand copy, I do have a few tokens (including 2 of the Scottish one mentioned by Katie) that i'd like to find out about. Let me know when you've finished with yours! Chris

Thanks for answering that one Mish. I keep meaning to get a copy of "The Provincial Token-Coinage of the Eighteenth Century". Where did you get yours? Chris