Chris Perkins

Penge is a bit of a grim name I admit. And there is a history of 'Penge' jokes and wordplays from over the years. I don't much like the place myself, I always find it hard to get to. Dad says he's right on the borders of Anerley, Beckenham and Penge so often uses those alternate names in polite conversation! Sidcup on the other hand is practically the centre of the universe! Even Rab C Nesbit was aparently once lost and 'trying to get to Shhidcup'. It's the birthplace of one of Led Zepellin and Sidcup station was where the Rolling Stones were formed in an agreement between Jagger and Richards. It's the home of a former PM (Heath) and was immortalised by P G Wodehouse in the Jeeves series... the Oswald Mosley dictator character was the 7th Earl of Sidcup (an entirely made up name because the actual manor was that of Lord Bexley a former Chancellor of the Exchequer). No doubt I could go one singing the praised of Sidcup! While I think of it, Eltham Palace which is about 5 miles away from Sidcup, was the favourite palace of Henry VIII and is now run by English Heritage.

If you've not put them on ebay yet, you could also start by offering them to me! And, interesting we now seem to have a Pobjoy representative here! I'll now have to try my very best not to be too rude about novelty new and commemorative issues of coins from obscure countries that seem to only exist in order to make money out of coins that no-one actually ever spends in the aforementioned obscure countries. :-) Actually the Pobjoy stuff is of good quality, but....... (lip zipped) Welcome, Pobjoy Mint Ltd.

That's interesting because 1948/49 pennies still turn up very often in BU condition. (by the way, I was born in Sidcup and my dad lives in Penge....I know Bromley pretty well)

Sent your order today. I was in England until Tuesday. That's an interesting 6d. I'd certainly sell it for a bit more than normal, but I wouldn't have though it would make it significantly valuable. When are you going to sell me any coins you have and don't need?!

Unless you have decent capital it's very difficult. I am self sufficient in 'coins' but couldn't survive on just the coins themselves (mainly because sourcing them is hard where I am), hence I publish a range of books and sell a good number of accessories. All coin related, but still not all that easy and very much a full time job for all the daylight hours at least!

I just cocked up and am now blocked out of messaging for a little while! Let the listing run Hus. If no one buys it, come back to me.

I'd certainly offer £250 for the Penny brockage!

Copy cat! I did a very similar thing and gave away 1966 halfpennies on the front on my 2008 Collector's Coins. I had to source over 7000 of them. I still have a couple of thousand and could send you a few hundred for the cost of posting. You'll probably need little envelopes too, so that the coins can be stuck on without actually sticking the coin. I can supply those too.

Things do sometimes slip through! Post a picture for us to verify the grade and variety.

To be honest there isn't usually much of a demand for 70s coin sets, especially from foreigns lands that aren't widely collected. If they were mine I'd put them on ebay. Some will probably be worth £5 or less, others may have more interest. That Sri Lanka one looks great, if that's your cup of tea.

I suspected it was something that had been sensationalised to make it sound more drastic than it is, as is often the case. There probably is a real risk for expensive ancient items with a dubious past, but I shouldn't imagine they will be going door to door or even to known collectors. I'd like to hear details about exactly what has been seized so far and from where it comes. Also if another country has to point the German authorities to a suspicious person before they do anything. I'm off to England tomorrow for about a week. I'll make an effort to understand this more when I get back.

Just like with modern £1 coins, the edges can be either way up with the lettering starting at any position. It just depends which way round the collars were when the coin was struck. For the 1668 inverted 'error' a section of the collar (I believe they were mostly 3 parts, perhaps more) was around the wrong way so that part of the legend would have been upside down and the whole thing would have made no sense.

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 have to sometimes go down to Eastbourne, but even that is too far for £70 worth of coin I'm afraid. Sorry. But my offer was something like what you should hopefully get for them (assuming all are average etc as mentioned).

Assuming the coins are in the conditions they are normally found in, I'd offer: CHURCHILL CROWN (1965) X 30 = 40p ea, so £12.00 SIX PENCE (1924) X 1 = 20p THREE PENCE (1939, 1945, 1949, 1950, 1957, 1959) X 1 EACH + (1966) X 5 = 0p, not required and very low value. TEN SHILLING Guernsey (1966) x 2....unsual square = £1 each if as new. FARTHING George (1941) X 1 = 0p, not required and very low value. HALF CROWN (1883, 1901, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1927, 1928, 1935) X 1 = £12.00 FLORIN (1921) X 4 = £3.60 ONE PENNY (1897, 1900, 1901, 1903, 1913, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1934, 1940, 1946, 1961, 1965, 1966 (X5), 1967 (X2)) = just a few pence each, so will probably take up weight. ONE SHILLING (1924) = 45p HALF PENNY (1966) X 2000ish = £40.00 if all are as new. So total offer would be £70.25. This is based on the metal/face value assuming all are average circulated coins, apart from the 1966 halfpennies which should be as new. If they are not as new, I have no use for them. If you are somewhere in the SE I could pick them up.

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.