Chris Perkins

Not much more than the bullion value I would have thought.

No I've not heard this, where's Stechlin???? It does sound a bit alarmist. If it's in any way true I may have to hide some things!

I've got 10 proof ring-bound copies that I picked up from the printers on Friday. These will be shown to Derek on the 14th at the London coin fair and will be given to a few select dealers for the final check. I'm also waiting to hear from the BNTA about some kind of approval. Not essential though as many of the dealers that will get proof copies will probably be members and regardless of if the BNTA give some kind of approval or not, I will be confident that the standards shown in the book will be accurate!

I'm just going to make this clear for all the people looking at this and realising that they have a 1909 penny (or multiples of 1909 pennies) and then wanting to contact me thinking that all 1909 pennies are very rare! The one illustrated here is a rarer type known as F169. The vast majority of 1909 pennies are incredibly common, as are all Edward VII pennies in fact!

I'm quite sure I've got the William IV version of that somewhere, oe had it at some stage. No doubt they are rare, but like Dg says, the demand is what dictates the value, not the rarity. ANd that type of brass medalet are quite undercollected.

They may work for you, depending on how your browser is setup. You type in medalsforsale or trade, or whatever it is and it may well default to the nearest website matching that. For the rest of the world it's gets us absolutely no where! For me it defaults to a google search and says 'did you mean 'Medals for trade'. It presents 2 website results, neither of which appear to be the one you're referring to! We need a proper URL, something which starts http:// or even www. will probably do. This website is perfectly easy to use and we are taking your request seriously but none of us have time for a wild goose chase trying to find the right website from a few joined up words.

In short, no. 10,000 is far too many. Don't touch modern coins with higher than 1000 mintage. If you want to invest in gold, buy bullion sovereigns at up to 10% or 15% over Bullion. And a Quarter Sovereign, what on earth is a Quarter Sovereign!!?? 5 Shillings, so that makes it a crown doesn't it? Normally a silver coin. The RM have invented a new denomination priced around the price a sovereign would have been a couple of years ago just so that more people can afford them and so that they can sell small amounts of gold for way way over it's actual value.

That would work for shillings with the three lions on, but ship halfpennies.....more effort than it's worth.

The whole thing should be 4cm or a little larger? The mount is probably only a few grammes and is probably 9ct if it is gold. In which case the value may well be less than £30. The coin is very worn and normally I sell crowns in that condition without the added gold plating for around £20.

My earliest Krause is the 1800-1900 one!

I think he meant 3.5cm including the mount? In which case it's most likely a gold £2 coin, or at least meant to be one. Lots of GIII replica £2 coins seem to have been made for the jellewery trade...I've got one in my collection of fakes. I think it was probably made with the mount and the style is very different to a real one. I suspect we'll need to see a picture.

Most importantly, in poor-fair the H wears away, so it's most probably an 1882H.

At an angle sometimes looks better doesn't it. Fabulous error that. And you're going to be auctioning it soon?

If it's been circulated it's worth £2 and is perfectly legal tender as such.

I've done a bit of geneology too. Got my Perkins ancestors back to about 1750 (all in London) then it goes a bit patchy. That little Pfenning is certainy 'in German' so is most probably German, not that Germany existed as one united nation back then. A Stadt is a town and a münz is a coin. The town is no doubt represented by the coat of arms on the other side, but I don't know which it is. Lots and lots of towns, dukedoms, principalities etc all issued there own little coins back then and it makes it all very complicated. The vast majority of the lower copper denominations are of negligble value. Please do contact me when you are selling any coins (mainly British but I'm also not fussed about nice Europeans).

No we don't. We just know it from the film of the same name with Bill Murray! The Ground Hog is not a native of those isles (i'm in Germany). I'm all for having a Hedgehog Day though! Somewhere in the forum, in the non coin area is a picture of Igor, a hedgehog that we found and cared for for a few months. Sounds like an interesting collection. Is it for sale? Recently I have purchased a collection from the USA ($800 worth). It all went very smoothly.

There should be a significant different in diameter.... about 2cm for the sixpence and 2.5cm for a shilling (not hugely different from the modern shilling/sixpence). It is possible that one of them was struck on a small flan? Or that both are sixpences! Can you trust that the seller knew what they were selling? Post pictures if you like.

Isn't that word doc just a blown up version of the other image? It's still not clear. It could be a real one, or a silvered base metal forgery. Usually the George III 2nd head (1817-20) are the ones that were most extensively forged. I don't think I've seen a forgery for the Geo IV 1820 coin, probably because the forgers would have carried on circulating the old type. Chances are high it's a real one but the jury is out.

I believe the blanks are hardened, perhaps it missed that stage. Or some other stage. Please post a picture.

I see what you mean. It does look a bit base-metally, and not as detailed as it could be. Can you attach a bigger picture of just the 'head' side?

That's right, all dated 1967 and that's one of the reasons there are so many of them.

I once used a couple of bags as 'ballast', put under the spare wheel (at the front) of my rear engined MG to keep the front end on the road. Worked a treat.

Another big problem with selling them is the cost of transportation! Postage costs are high for such a heavy item and it renders them uneconimical.

Scrap them. Unfortunately the world and his aunt seem to have kept the abundant canvas bags of 1967 coinage which was all made in massive numbers. Any other year has a slight premium of scrap value (which unfortunately is quite low at the moment), but 67's are all cheap and any collectors that want one have already got one and don't need another 1199 of them.

I have a great aunt called Shiela C(lements). But she's 80 and not online, so I suspect this is another one! Please post a picture Shiela. Forgeries are pretty common around that era, but silver can tone very darkly too. In 1820 both George III and IV half crowns were made. With the 'ANNO' under the shield it does sound very much like George IV.