Chris Perkins

When you say the 'mint office', do you mean those 'London' people that like people to think they have something to do with the Royal Mint in Wales? If so, ignore whatever they say and have no dealings with them unless you want to end up receiving a lot of rubbish coins on approval for the rest of your life! I have a blank older (large) 50p blank somewhere, but I believe it does have a rim. Blank planchets are usually pretty inexpensive because although they should never leave the mint in that state, they are (in my eyes) not really errors, but just fairly uninteresting bits of metal that have missed most of the minting processes. Value will be under £5.00 I suspect.

Mary looks alright. Had I been around at the time and had half a chance, I would've banged any of them if it made me a King. Or at least the father of a King/Prince! (That was the most un-PC statement of the week, but it's what you were all thinking! ;-) )

I've done a little bit of Chauffeuring over here for friends and friends of friends. One was a Wedding in Summer, I also took an old couple to their 65th Wedding Anniversary meal and a couple of nice young ladies to a 30th Birthday bit of cake. 2 Jobs in the Bronze Rolls that you can see on the stretched.de website and the last one was in a stretched Granada. I had all the Chauffeur gear and looked by far the smartest! I'm always open to doing jobs like that if I have time and have a good car here, which I often do. But I think it can just be 'privately' though because I could never legally do it in Germany in a UK registered car without paying a hefty fee for insurance which would render it pointless. If someone wants to borrow a RHD Omega, for self drive (either in UK or Germany) then they certainly can. Many people seem to have a mental block about trying out a RHD over here.

Remind me where you live Peter? And you mean next year as in 2011? That's a way off yet.

Yes I think the bronzed proof are the commonest of (all at least 'very rare') proof cartwheels. Do you want it? I had a nice AUNC, very nearly UNC 2d once. Had a bit of lustre in the low bits and around the inside of the raised rim. A BU circulation piece, that would be pretty much impossible to find!

No, that would be too complicated I expect, as most of them aren't taxed when they sit around. And in Germany I couldn't hire them out with GB registrations. Also, I like to sell them ASAP and not have them sitting around at all. I've got plenty of stretched Omegas if you want to borrow one of those. Some in Bolton, a couple on Northampton.

There aren't many worth £1000! I've never seen one. I've got bronzed proof 1797 1d and 2d at the moment, and they are probably worth £1000 for the pair, but they are very special indeed. 99% of them are worth less than £5.

He was a Bus driver before that and drove a bus during the General Strike of 1926 (very dangerous job, google it). He never had a 'proper' driving licence and learnt to drive during WWI.

I don't think you'll find one, as when they are really sensitive they only have a small range. E.g. I sell one that copes with up to 60g in 0.01 increments, or one that goes up to 150g in 0.1 increments. For a 0.01g or 0.1g that also weighs 2kg or over I think you'd be looking at a very expensive bit of kit.

Oh yes, granddad there. Couldn't look more cooler if he tried. The Horatio Caine of 1950s London! At a time when there were only about 3 cars in the road and probably about 100 in the whole of Lewisham, he used to take that Bentley home every night and park it outside! It belonged to his boss who was an important WWII scientist, so I'm told. The white Daimler is available. I've not seen it yet, but I'm hoping it can be MOTed and driven a long distance.

I drove it across Germany with the DDR flag on the front. People thought I was Honniker or Gorbechov and they were hanging out of their cars on the motorway with their camera phones! Such fun. It didn't help sell it though :-(. A Dutch fisherman Volvo freak bought it in the end and it broke even financially. Said Dutch fisherman had actually previously owned a real GDR communist Volvo Limo.

I like that. A very windswept Queen Anne.

I've been selling British stretched limos in Germany recently. Here's a link to a basic website I've put up: Stretched.de I've basically put it there so that search engines find it (am spamming my own forum so to speak!). And, for the search engines, it's hosted in this webspace: Another link to same thing.

The law is a bit grey but it is generally accepted that the illegality only occurs when you melt down coins that are currently in circulation. So, that means the decimals (but possibly not the demonetised larger 5, 10 and 50p....who knows....who really cares!). It is therefore legal to melt down pre 1947 silver and also pre decimal bronze.

You'd have to go underground with it, or leave the country.

All of them, without exception! There should be a 1967 coinage amnesty. A Government funded scheme to encourage people to scrap ALL 1967 coins! Make them illegal and get the '67 coins off the streets, they are a blight on society! ;-)

I hope they all get bloody melted without exception, so that in 5 years there are none whatsoever in the whole world!

It's about £35 to £40 per £5 face value canvass bag (1200 coins, at around 3p each). But I don't have any, because I always scrap them all!

For the £100.00 bags I'd pay £120.00, assuming you are not too far away. And, yes if the other bag is 1967 then scrap value only. I think I can go to 11x face for pre 1920 and 5.5x for 1920 to 1947 silver. I haven't looked at the rates for a while.

Good question! I've gone through adding new Crowns down to Sixpences (most of which have already sold). Next is threepences and then the copper. Nad recently I bought 11 and a half sovereigns, which may end up getting priority due to the value!

Mir geht es gut. Du kannst mich schon Du-sen! Ich habe nie lust allem mit Sie und Ihn anzusprechen!

Thanks, good to know. Just wish I had some more coins to grade and sell! Actually, that's a fib. I do have coins and generally I can source them. My main prob is finding the time to scan and list them.

Funny how German seems to be the 2nd language of the forum.

It would be impossible for it to be struck like that because the silver part is inserted to the brass ring before the design is struck, as far as I'm aware. I think it is possible with the right machinery to actually push out the centre part, so perhaps someone has pushed it out, then pushed it back in again the wrong way round, just for fun.

Humbrol enamel by brush is fine, a car touch-up paint, or something similar. Difficult to spray because you'd have to mask the other side. The Chrome parts stay exactly as they are because they're deeper. Was all the rage to change the colours of your Ford badges when I was your age (which is only 12 years ago)! I never had a Ford though, as I liked to be different. The date on the coin is under the King's head. They are often very worn but it can only be 1806 or 1807. 1807 is a little harder to find than 1806.