Chris Perkins

I buy silver coins like that. Can send someone round if you're in the SE of England. Or possibly further.

I will.

Who knows. Sold in the city of Kortrijk I suppose, as a decorative item just for fun. I'll try and find a Belgian forum for antiques and collectables. Probably one of the kinds of things that everyone in Belgium has in the loft!

The feel of it is older than mid 20th century, but it's certainly post industrial revolution I'd say. The piece of string and rings could be a later addition.

Not a coin, but it is numismatic in that it's seal related. I wondered if anyone had seen something similar or knew anything about this kind of thing? It's a brass dish 24cm (9.5in) in diameter. The centre appears to be an impression of a medieval Belgian seal that reads: S'PREPOSITORUM ET SCABINORUM CURTRACENSIUM The S' is, I think an abbreviation of SIGILLUM and from what I can tell the whole thing translates to something like: Reeve and Alderman seal (of) Kortrijk. A Reeve was an official responsible for an area, I suppose something similar to a mayor in this case. The Alderman was probably a lower rank than a Reeve back then. Curtracensium was a Latin name for the Belgian (at that time Flanders) city of Kortrijk. The 77mm seal in the middle of the dish is described in an 1873 book, referred to here: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fikKAQAAIAAJ&q=prepositorum+et+scabinorum+curtracensium&dq=prepositorum+et+scabinorum+curtracensium&hl=en&sa=X&ei=C0MbUvmtFMjKtQafoYDoAQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA Any idea as to why an impression of the seal was made into a brass dish (I imagine at a much later date)? Any idea of the age of the dish or any other information gratefully received.

That may be because you only get limited time (a few minutes) to edit posts. This was originally due to people posting things and then changing them when they realised they were spouting naughty things and were rightly getting flamed! What you say here, is permanent (after a few mins to check for typos).

Avoid the often over-priced modern ones and buy the older ones at around bullion value. Sometimes high grade 1880s to 1930s can be found for around the bullion value.

Unlikely. I think the newer ones just have a different style edge.

Printed (2008) version out of print. Download version can probably be arranged but I don't think it's offered anywhere. Would very much like to do a new edition, but it could be a way off.

I've made it so that it shows the exact amount of time that has passed since the last post. Hope it's ok like that.

If there's some kind of switch I can switch to turn it back on, I will. If not, then you probably have 3 'opes: No 'ope, Bob 'ope and Envelope.

Hmmm, copy the URL from the browser bar when you get this so-called 'cross scripting' problem. When I first come to the page it seems to point me at british-coins.com/forum instead of predecimal.com/forum but it soon seems to right itself. Does anyone else get a cross scripting error or ever see british-coins.com in the browser bar?

As far as I know you should still have admin privileges. I'm very new to the new look too and have hardly looked deeper into it yet. It seems to be working, that's the main thing. And I believe the image posting works again?

Doing it! Tried to fix it myself to no avail. I now have my new wonderful local (to where I used to be) webhost looking into it!

I think it's probably the old predecimal.com/british-coins.com confusion again! I don't know why as the latter shouldn't exist anywhere except as a redirect to predecimal.com. I've put in a request for Invision (the forum software people) to upgrade everything to the latest version. I'll also mention the problem with the missing old images and cross-site scripting. Should be upgraded in about a week. Users may notice temporary changes in appearance. Actual down time should be minimal.

Ok, must just be me then. Good to hear.

I buy a lot of pre 47 silver etc.

I've re-calibrated, re-counted, re-synched the whole forum and have removed the server stored cache files and theoretically it should be fine now! At least, there should certainly be no more disappearing threads, but as for the confusion in the browser bar between predecimal.com/forum and british-coins.com/forum I'm still personally experiencing problems with that. Anyone else having similar issues? This could cause people to become logged out.

Oh, it all helps at the moment, believe me! Just managed to get a tenant into the Gillingham house as of yesterday. It was only empty for 15 months.

I don't suppose one of you could do me a favour and test the functionality of the coins/stuff sales. Perhaps with paypal and also with a credit card just to make sure both work? You could use this as a test: http://www.predecimal.com/1965-scottish-shilling-p-775.html Very cheap, but of course I'll refund the money anyway! Let me know in here first, because I don't really need more than one test per payment method. Thanks.

And also at the top of the forum pages between a couple of the book images. See them there too? It's annoying. Those of you that also have large websites with large bandwidth, who do you use for hosting? The company I use were taken over a year or 2 ago and service levels have fallen (and the costs also seem very high).

Do others see the odd  symbol in the title before the pound sign, or is it just me? http://www.predecimal.com/edward-viii-father-just-p-9058.html It's to do with character sets on the server. My hosts say it's fixed, by I'm not so sure.

My latest venture is to run around like a headless chicken frantically trying to get things a bit more organised and to find money that I don't have (mainly to do with the houses, due to the tenants in one of them wanting everything done and the other being tenantless but now on the market again. It took over a year to get it right)! Had bad flooding yesterday in Eastern Germany. We were actually cut off from the world until this morning. My car was at the garage next to a river and the phones were down so I couldn't get in touch with the mechanic that lives above. I also couldn't actually get to him either, despite it being less than 2 miles, not even in the old Range Rover. I phoned this morning and fortunately he'd had the foresight to move the car (my recently acquired 1972 Triumph 2000) to higher ground in the neighbours haulage yard. Everything is fine.

The forum was down today. It was first brought to my attention on the predecimal.com facebook thingy. I had to run something or other and it seems to have fixed it. The something or other is still running in the background so it may be slow for a while!

I need to host a picture in order to ebay the old RR. Have temporarily lost my FTP details so have to do it here!