Chris Perkins

There's no easy way and it's generally impossible with coins less than EF. The maundy threepences are prooflike, have mirror-like fields and are often darkly toned. In saying that, some of the circulation non maundy threepences can also be quite prooflike and darkly toned so even coin dealers have to sometimes make an instictive educated guess.

In my opinion anything from the Turks and Caicos is a novelty coin struck for 'collectors' and any uninformed people that would care to buy one I'm afraid. I very much doubt any of the 10,000 people on the islands have ever spent or even seen one. In fact One Crown appears to be fixed to the value of 1 US Dollar so I would assume that the main currency is the US$. It will just be worth a couple of pounds or the silver value (+ a small %) if it's silver.

I assumed that was the case, it's the only way as far as I can tell.

Sounds like a scrapper. As a dealer I'd try to sell it for 10% above scrap. I doubt it was made for the building society, more likely re-packaged by them because it is known as a 'Britannia'. I'd offer £239.00 for it.

Sorry chaps, had my knickers in a twist!

What year is it and is it mainland GB (i.e. not Channel islands, Isle of Man etc)?

Well I never, it's already gone higher than my £43.00 offer that everyone thought was too much before they realised it was a bit special!

Ok then, let the competition begin. Who's going to put the first £1 on?

Derek (Red Riley) has another 1849 that I sold him this year. Show us your date Del if you read this.

I just put it on eBay this evening! I think I would take £180.00. Or do you want to bid in case it goes for cheaper? There is no reserve: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...E:IT&ih=008 If you want it for £180 let me know and I'll remove it right away.

Respekt Geoff! I'll translate for members not called 'Stechlin'.... Geoff says thankyou for the newspaper cutting. He says he likes the old (Gothic) German typeface too, but that he finds the written form not so easy to read. A typo error, missing 'n' in Zeitungsausschnitt, and should it be 'den'? Somehow that doesn't look right but knowing Geoff, it probably is. Should I start a German forum branch? Probably a bit pointless.

I suppose it must be a fairly common error then if Rayner only rates it R2. I expect in higher grade it's probably extremely rare.

Too late for that!

Well that's no good is it! Hopefully a UK audience will pay £200 for it or just under. Thanks for the info Sergy. Does anyone here want it for £200 o.n.o?

Hey I like that ring light Herr Stechlin! And they also do a rather useful stand for macro-photography which would also go very well with my camera (an Olympus SP-510UZ). But alas, I need all the Euros I can scrape together at the moment to pay a deposit on a house in the Erzgebirge!

There are pictures in my initial post, are you viewing the basic, non image version? I'd say it's near Fine. Some areas probably would class as Fine but it has very weak areas too; around the date for example.

Excellent, that's interesting. So for my less than Fine example, around about £200 would be about right then.

I know! And I would have been none the wiser. It just shows you that it is possible to pick things up with rare features, even from dealers who should know better. I'd love to find a record of one of these selling because some of these odd things have very out of date values in Spink.

Interesting story for this one. I didn't notice until yesterday that this crown is an ESC91 with GEI instead of DEI. I've had it for months and it was on sale at the last London coin fair. People like large silver coins and lots of collectors picked it up had a good look and then put it down again! I had it priced at a mere £43. No one noticed that the word DEI is GEI and nor did I. Luckily for me, no one bought it. Yesterday I sold a 1696 shilling and someone emailed to say they wanted it and had seen it was gone. I remembered this crown and as it was the same date, asked it they had any interest. Only then did I notice the bloody obvious error. It's only a VG-Near Fine but it's a very very clear GEI. ESC says R2 (very rare) and Spink says £300 in fine. However, I can't find any records of one of these being sold. Has anybody come across this coin before or seen one sell?

Thanks very much. I get all the London Coins results in spreadsheet form which is very useful. Officially I boycott Lockdales!

The Queen Victoria jubilee head was used 1887 to 1893 so it's not a jubilee head coin, it's a young head type, as you also mention! If it's all readable but pretty worn then It's worth about £1 - £2. Post a picture if you like. I sell them in average worn condition to be used in Christmas puddings....housewives across the land can't get enough of them at Christmas time! http://www.predecimal.com/forsale/christmasthreepences.htm

The KLAR are actually quite expensive as coin envelopes go......but, I think they are probably the cheapest that don't contain PVC and are safe for coins. I'll be posting these tomorrow, many thanks.

Can you give me details of some denominations/dates/grades and prices and I'll quickly incoporate them into CCGB2009! I refuse to have anything to do with Lockdales since I sent them some items which they lost and claimed that they never received!

I sell them for £2.40 per 10 when you buy 30 or more! http://www.predecimal.com/coin-capsules-p-42.html Further discounts available to anyone that wants 100 or more.

I've got a few of those 100 slot Lighthouse boxes that I got as part of a promotion, but they're not on the website so I still have them all! Do you need anymore?