Chris Perkins

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 I'd love to find a record of one of these selling because some of these odd things have very out of date values in Spink.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?

Ron, I don't know! I'm not very pleased with the way the ebook software people keep changing things. It means I have to keep re-generating all the ebooks. Email me and I'll reply with a 4.5mb attachment of the 2008 version.

The system should charge you £3.50 postage, which is the same as to the UK because I send them from Germany.

it depends how grand you want your collection to look and how much money you have to spend! I think you'd be best with an album and some individual coin envelopes for those that don't quite fit in the album. I wouldn't have thought bank bags are that safe but for low value coins where the value is next to nothing then that probably doesn't matter either. Why don't you start with 100 of my KLAR envelopes and progress from there.

Bloody hell that all sounds far more complicated than it should be! I usually just put coins on a tray, scan them and then list them on the website. If you make it too complicated you'd probably spend more time manipulating lists than selling coins. Can't you just go through them all and use instict and feeling to tell you which ones you should sell? Or, even better, send them all to me and I'll make a fair offer for the lot and that could save you weeks!

Are they from the Isle of Man? The Isle of Man is well known for churning out precious metal commemoratives. They are likely to just be worth the bullion value or a small percentage over it. 750 is still an awful lot of coins sets when the coin collector and his aunt can probably live without them!

I can't send anything that big, it bounces for things over 10mb! And as MP3 is pretty compressed I don't think zipping it would make a huge difference.

Looks real enough. Old doesn't always mean valuable though. It's worth around £20.00.

I seem to remember it being about 40mb.

It was on BBC 3 Counties Radio (based in Luton). I do have one MP3 of a programme, but it's massive. A lot of the time it was just me trying not to be rude to people who had phoned up with Churchill crowns!

A bad tone can affect the value of a higher grade coin. Certainly if 2 coins were EF and were identical apart from one being unattractive then the one with the better even toning would attract more buyers and would probably sell for more. Where low grade coins are concerned (i.e less than Fine) the toning is usually of little importance. Coins in a natural aged state (even with odd toning) with very little wear are always the most popular. The level of wear though always has a far greater affect on value than the toning. You're lucky to have found a nice large sterling silver coin regardless of its level of wear. I've never found anything made out of a non base metal!

Yes despite the patchy tone that coin in the linked auction has an awful lot more eye appear and very little wear compared to yours. You'll get used to knowing what to look for but it can take time and it's perfectly normal for beginners to overgrade coins simply because they have yet to see (or even better, to hold) a better one.

Unfotunately not as the DJ (John Pilgrim) moved on to doing other things and no longer has a programme. It was pretty popular though. I thought about asking other local BBC stations but haven't got around to that yet!

It's just worth a few quid, I don't think there are any mega rare dates (at least not for low grade examples). Post a link to this comparison coin, I can find it from the general link.

Most of them are very very very overgraded, which is very common for beginers! The ZAR silver con for example is not even fine and most of the ship halfpennies are also not even fine.

That's interesting Herr Stechlin, thanks. When are you going to send your British spares to me? I don't mind if it's EUR20 worth or EUR2000. For low amounts I could send envelopes or cash in the post.

Thankyou for your order - Herzlichen dank fuer Ihre Bestellung! And did you notice the stand against Denglish (the modern Germans slipping in English words)? I'm quite fed up with German companies and media types leaving things in English or creating products with English names, as it dilutes your wonderfully poetic language (.....yes, that was ever so slightly sarcastic). So I have reversed this trend in a small way and have called them KLAR (the German word for 'clear') even though they will be sold by an Englishman mostly to Englishmen! I've put them on ebay too. They are of course more expensive that the PVC types, but hopefully more serious collectors will notice them. Over the years I have sold lots of these from other manufacturers so to cut costs and be in full control I decided to have them made myself, which was actually expensive on the first order because they had to make tooling.