Chris Perkins

Normally (certainly with British coins) there is a date cut off so it's easy to tell. What particular coins are you refering to?

It's a cow! In real life though, I do have puppy-dog eyes!

Ooo, a young female fan :blush:. Can't have enough of those! I've got about 200 coins here that are worthy of the website but aren't listed yet, so check back every so often. Anything that is newly added will be shown in date order from here: http://www.predecimal.com/products_new.php

I take it you've seen the coins for sale on predecimal.com? Nothing from Malaya though. And the pages for the SAFE deluxe album which are more expensive but don't contain PVC? They are £5 per 3, but I'll make them a bit cheaper if you want a lot. Those cheap pages on ebay probably do contain PVC. PVC was never banned in relation to coin pages, but the better companies stopped using it when they realised that it makes coins sweat. I'm sure they still use it by the ton in China to make cheap coin pages!

The 1849 is now sold. I also have a rather nice (around EF) 1858 over 3 penny.

Just thought I'd offer these here before putting them on the website in a few days. I have an 1849 penny in Fine condition but with some scratches on the obv, £140.00. I also have a Fair 1827 penny for £65.00.

I mentioned this in another area. It's a coin I picked up at the London coin fair. A 1910 penny which has been 're-engraved' to feature George V in a much more casual pose. Or is it supposed to be Edward VII? I don't quite understand why someone would use an Edward penny as a blank canvass for an image of Geo V!

He means the Queen on a po, ebay 170214077683. Actually I recently purchased a penny where George V is smoking a cigar and wearing a straw hat. I'll post pictures in here somewhere. I like things like that.

It doesn't really matter. With the mount it's an item of jewellery and without it, it's a coin which is ex mount (but you can put it in a coin holder!). Both the mount and the remaining signs of a mount are generally bad things. 1787 is probably the most common Geo III pre new coinage sixpence, so count your blessings that it's not a Northumberland shilling!

Looks like a Jeton - Counting token circa 1300s usually of French origin.

Ok

Thanks. The coin isn't in perfect condition and the size of the clip is not massive, so I'd offer £10 for it.

That's interesting. I like errors and always try to buy errors that are anounced in the forum. So the coin is like a moon shape? Can you post a picture. What I offer will depend on how much of the coin is clipped.

In 1752 the Maundy coins given out in the ceremony would have been the same as the ones circulated. So it's not strictly speaking a Maundy coin unless it was once part of the set of 4, or becomes at some point in the future part of a set of 4! Welcome, by the way.

Looks and sounds pretty convincing to me!

Images don't work because they are still set to your local path. They will work with the website on your PC, but won't to anyone else.

It couldn't be anything else! You better post pictures though if you can. Most half guineas are brass imitations (or even forgeries). I hope that it is a proper one, although it sounds very worn if you can't see the III so will probably only be worth bullion value (around £50).

The only coins I can think of with the spade shape coat of arms just like that one are the Spade guineas and half guineas of Geo III. And that would fit too as all Geo III coins faced to the right. The spade shape shield should also be crowned. But....I'm sticking with brass gaming token. Does it have the weight and feel of gold, or is it most definitely brassy? Do google searches on George III spade guinea and Victorian imitation Guinea gaming tokens, or words to that effect.

As far as I know there are no albums with pages made specifically for dated British coins (apart from the older albums).

I don't think it's meant to be a coin, just a coat of arms. That coat of arms (with Hannovarian stuff lower right) was never used in that shape on a Geo II coin. The spade shape like that was used on the spade Guineas of Geo III and, much much more commonly on the spade Guinea imitation Victorian gaming tokens. Are you sure it's not Geo III? Ignore the date as they often read 1701 instead of 1791 and are not always actual dates.

Red Riley, I do believe I have an 1860/59 kicking about somewhere (in England). It's lowish grade so may well be up your street. I'll try to get its current custodian to send me pictures of it. Did you get my recent emails? The cover chap is wanting to push on with the cover design.

Yes, the prices are too low in CCGB for 1840s pennies. I've been told about this. As an Englishman in Germany I always try to hush my location a bit. I think people imagine it to be enormous hassle buying things from abroad and the other way around; some are no doubt distrusting (I've had people refuse to send me very low value items) but I think some are just put off by the perceived extra 'hassle'. Some people still think that a customs declaration has to be stuck on the envelope and of course they all think the post between Germany and the UK is going to take at least a month to arrive as if they march it over on horse back with spiked helmets or something ;-) And they think it will be massively expensive too, when in reality it isn't and many of my customers don't notice they've bought something from Germany until it turns up very promptly with German stamps on the envelope (and then they often purchased again). Selling things is the easiest part. They get sent off and always arrive unless the Royal Mail cock up at their end (and the parcel ends up returned to me). Getting people to send things to me can be a struggle. I suppose it's logical....why send 'valuables' abroad when you could probably find someone nearer and in the UK and have less postal worries. I'll touch wood while I say this, but no coins have ever gone missing that I've been sent or sent out (to and from the UK). Obviously for Italy, Russia and Poland the situation is a bit different!

It's just worth £2 - £3 if truly as new with full lustre. There is an error one struck on a much thicker piece of metal, I've never seen one though! And all 1973 50p's are thicker than the current smaller ones.

The upside down thing is normal for then (and a very popular forum and email observation from novices that think they have something unusual). The missing letters could be due to those letters of the die being filled with crud, or it could be wear. I can't really see from the picture. It certainly looks like a farthing though.

And it has George III on it? Is there a date? If between 1791 and 1798 or 1810 to 1815 then it's probably a Provincial (merchant) token, and probably for halfpence going by the size.