Chris Perkins

Be hard to do. Coin dealers are mavericks by nature and often get a bit funny about sharing their wares with other dealers, even if the only sharing is a page of web results. Onlinecoins was good and I knew Andy too, but obviously it doesn't seem to have worked. The google search thing isn't a bad idea though. Surely lots of specific coins can be found that way, many of which are on dealers websites and on offer?

In the first image it looks very much like an electrotype. Does it appear to be 2 halves stuck together? I have a couple of really nice looking 'Greek' coins that are fairly modern electrotypes.

300 Americans? I thought slavery was illegal everywhere by now

Yes, I could be up for those.

What I find most interesting is that in the past things like that simply got spent and circulated. No one cared, coins were (and are) simply a convenient form of exchange. It didn't matter what it looked like - the purchasing power of a halfpenny was always of greater significance. Nowadays anything with a slight blob on it ends up on ebay within about 8 seconds, with a starting price of £50!

Or here Dave!: Boxes of 10 Boxes of 100 The Lindner capsules are certainly like the top type with the lip on both edges. Lighthouse, Lindner and Safe (the main German manufacturers) all supply capsules with the lip. I don't know where the others come from.

My friend Richard in Bexley recently sold a largeish collection of Numismatic books to a London based Numismatic book dealer. Quick and easy and a fair price, but I think even he needed a list! I can't remember who the book dealer was, but Richard can be asked via his website www.coinsforsale.co.uk

Oh sorry, yes, it looks like you were removed in error. Having a gmail email account didn't help as 80% of the spammers also have gmail accounts. How many posts had you made before? I can certainly bump your post number up if it makes you feel better.

You lot seem to be having such fun with Marina, so instead of just pulling the plug I've removed the link and email/skype and also banned 'her'. Clearly an automated bot thing. The pic loads wrong (at the most interesting part, some would say) deliberately to encourage the viewer to click on the now removed link which wasn't really 'Added later'.

Hello Peter. 1) I'm still in the process of preparing the house. It has a new kitchen now, plus new windows and external doors. Some decorating also done, but still a lot to do plus other bits e.g. some plumbing in the bathroom and the lounge needs a new floor. 2) I still have my 400+ forgeries but the houses have priority at the moment. 3) Hopefully by the end of this year. The houses are draining resources, time, my last nerve. 4) I'll probably stretch back a little over time, but am keen to keep CCGB the number 1 paperback for GB coins that most people want to know about, and those are pretty much nearly always GIII and later. Adding pages increases printing costs and therefore the price of the book. We'll see.

No! 'Most collectable' is a tough one because what people collect is subjective. Rarest is probably that Olympic swimmer 50p with the lines on the face that was withdrawn, or was just the Royal Mint being sloppy. As the public aren't aware of it though, it's not generally collected like the dateless 20p was.

Yes, I meant Third Guinea, not Quarter. Mostly I seem to deal in pre 47 silver (due to the Guardian article last year) and the odd bit of scrap gold and bags and bags of coppers. It's all very well, but I'd love for a cheeky little collection to come my way, in case you know anyone! Thanks Dave. And Rob, I've emailed and you can reply to that.

How is everyone? Can anyone provide any or even all of the following as 300dpi images for use in Collectors' Coins GB 2013: Guinea (1787 or later) Guinea, military type 1813 Half Guinea (1787 to 1800) Half Guinea (1804 to 1813) Quarter Guinea (Any, or all of the 3 types 1797 to 1813) Much obliged!

Any dealer who pays more than the scrap value for them (which is 2 or 3p each) would be bonkers. Even selling them for £1 each at a rate of 20 a year, it's enough to last 2 generations! There's no point spending £100 for an £800 return if it's over 40 years (all being well healthwise). For all late 60s coins, I pay around scrap value then keep a handful for stock (20 or 30 perfect examples) and scrap the rest. In the late 60s even bank managers advised their customers to buy such bags of the last pre-decimal coins. Apart from helping the banks get shot of their old money, it served absolutely no purpose. There are still hundreds of bags out there I'm afraid, especially '67.

Thankyou very kindly everyone. We had a barbeque and I had a surprise young lady visitor that normally shouldn't even be in the same Bundesland. It was (and still is) bloody hot....the weather I mean, obviously.

oh, thankyou.

That's better. I don't think there's a whole grade between them though. See my florins too: http://www.predecimal.com/british-predecimal-coins-florins-c-51_32_36.html

I don't look on ebay for coins, it would push me over the edge.

Err, to be honest I would rather have all my finger and toe nails pulled out than have anything to do with that or such business practices. It's crap and will always be crap - next year, in 100 years, in 1000 years. Covered in gold, covered in honey, coated in cocaine, layered in pure Justin Bieber saliva, digitally signed by all of the Beatles including the dead ones, encrusted with meteorite from planet Elvis .... still crap. I think you already know that though! I leave you lot alone for 10 minutes. I do despair.

I got the couple of PMs recently. I'm away from tomorrow but will update the forum software when I get back. And John, please do link to me etc. I'll do likewise.

Silver has plummeted too! Silver usually follows roughly the same trend as gold.

Of course in Germany they've been hot on this from the moment eBay was invented! I have to list and declare everything so they can take the standard 7% VAT on coins added to the 13% ebay/paypal and of course income tax from the total profit and there you have it, that's the reason I rarely sell coins on ebay, prefering to make my own website do the work!

It could be that your cache still thinks the images aren't there. I noticed Paulus' avatar also was missing earlier. Most perculiar.

That's alright. I don't know what happened there though, the image must have been corrupt. All I did was change a couple of pixels, re-save it then re-upload and all is well.