Chris Perkins

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

Well coin collecting of any kind should really be about what you want in your very personal collection, and the coins that give you pleasure to behold. Far less important is the value, and future value. In fact many people that go into it for investment make grave mistakes without sufficient knowledge of the subject. You may just find that your coin skips along at the same rate as inflation, or like so many 80's US investors, that the value takes a nose dive! I'm afraid I cannot tell you how high to go as I do not know too much about gold Roman coins, how much money you are able to spend on your hobby, or how comfortable you really feel with that coin. You can of course be satified that if you do win it on ebay for however much, that the second highest was just a few pounds below you! My advice, hold off a bit, get a decent book, read up and then come back to the one on the other website and search regularly on ebay. Chris

Do they have an online catalogue and is email bidding allowed? Although I am in Germany, I was brought up not too far from Croydon and had heard that the Croydon coin auction was pretty popular. Chris

I assume that was you Olli? I've changed things around a bit now, so that the forum is in one frame and the Main menu is always near the top, and at the bottom. It makes things appear more together I think. Chris

I know the 'Wybrit'. Bought a coin of him the other day. We were one day going to author the definitive photograding system for GB coins types together, but that's a big job and we never got around to it yet. The first link is a little general, but shows a good penny scale. Chris

Maybe I should start an entirely German discussion area! You come straight to me with any more annoyances Olli. Chris

There is a token offering of Roman coins on the site, here: http://www.predecimal.com/forsale/romanforsale1.htm And a Roman coin book here: http://www.predecimal.com/books/ccromanframed.htm But you're right, no gold coins I'm afraid, because basically I don't know enough about them to be able to buy and sell them efficiently. So I don't know anything about the coins you have linked to, except that the second one is of a vastly superior grade to the ebay coin. I would not expect the ebay 'Fine' example to fetch anywhere near that 'EF' second one, but I really don't know about Roman gold trends. Chris Perkins www.predecimal.com

I would assume a 'George III 1788 Spade Ace Guinea'

It's a double arrow fo me too. I run it! Aha, worked it out.....It's because there is one or more forum within that forum area (the ad forum about the collectors coins book) So you get a double arrow to show that there are more areas within. Alles Klar? Chris

If those symbols are highlighted blue it means there is a new message (or new messages) that you haven't read yet. I can't remeber the difference between the double arrow and 'X' sign, I think it may have something to do with if you started the discussion or not. I just work here, and only have 1 star on my badge! Chris

I've never seen any numbers for that kind of thing. Usually the mintage numbers in any given year are just for the coins struck that year, regardless of how they were dated. Chris

That's not a million miles from Kent/SE London. I'll have to see how I'm fixed up, i'd like to see your oddities! Chris

Yes there was a bit of an error there and the higher rank actually had less 'pips' associated with it. I've sorted it now and added a few more goals! Shown below are the current ranks, and numbers of posts needed to achieve them: Newbie 0 Starter member 5 Member 30 Regular participating member 50 Very familiar face 150 Part of the furniture 200 Forum god 500 Which left hand symbols do you mean Olli? Chris