Chris Perkins

This'll do it: http://www.rotographic.com/britishcoins2005public.pdf

Liberty Street software use my price data in their UK Coinmanage software. You can download a sample of that, perhaps it has a spread sheet, csv or something similar that comes with it.

Steady, you're not much younger than me! Thanks for the comical cow pictures. You simply can't beat comical cows for humourous effect.

It's a little halfpenny, the decimal type that was stopped in 1984. You're obviously too young to remember them! I was 6 in 1984 and just about remember them. I remember in the road where we used to play, there was one set hard into the road surface. None of us could free it and eventually it was worn flat by the cars.

One of my old books is in the public domain as an ebook: http://www.rotographic.com/britishcoins2005public.pdf The prices are out of date but there are lots of pictures etc.

BU 1983 £1 coin, yes must be worth at least £3 now. Probably more than you'll get for an average Cumberland Jack I'm afraid.

It's the thought that counts isn't it! Our old next-door neighbour Maud (who had long since forgotten how old she was, and no one knew) gave my little sister a 'sovereign' when she was born in 1983. It was of course a shiny new 1983 £1 coin! To Maud it was a sovereign, which is sort of correct in a way.

Yes, UNC means no wear but BU (as introduced by the Royal Mint in the 80s I believe for their UNC year sets) has come to mean no wear and full lustre. A tiny weeny bit of toning could possibly still scrape in as BU if the mint bloom is still there, but a coin with a finger print or any other area where there is no lustre or uneven lustre cannot be BU. There are some coins on that list that are practically completely brown with lustre in the lower parts and they are still described as something involving the term 'BU'. I hate to moan about it but I've had issues in the past with 'Colin Cooke' grading. Don't complain Neil, it's just an opinion and I'll leave the link to your website above!

Yes lustre can be hard to capture, but I noticed a 'BU almost as struck' with a finger print. That can't be right. Nice coins though, as you say.

Really! Oh dear. What they bounce and you get a bouce message? Usually I have to manually inspect my spam emails and am able to release real ones. I'll get the books sent to you.

Nice stuff and excellent price data for me. There are an awful lots of coins there described as 'BU almost full lustre' that I would call UNC because they have toning or marks preventing them from being BU. Does anyone agree that the term BU seems to be used a bit too frequently there?

Thanks, I'll put that right in the next one! Always have the heart to tell me about these things. It may well have been the same coin, I quite often monitor London Coins auction prices.

That looks like a weak GVF too. I'm not sure where the £110 came from, some of the values don't change unless a newer price is noticed (on a sales list, in an auction etc). I have a feeling that the price quoted is pretty new. I'll take your worn one for £12 and sell for £20 if you just want to send it without faffing around.

In CCGB2008 this is the 'L' in Florin points to bead type. Price there is £110 GVF. That one has to be worth £20 surely. I think that's where I'd price it.

It doesn't really matter how it looks in the image, you simply can't trust that an otherwise common proof is the matt version unless the seller is highly expert and offers some kind of guarantee.

No, I don't pick values out of the air. I imagine I somehow didn't notice that one and it's remained like that (and the big difference between it and the EF price) from a previous edition. I'll make sure I make a note to change it and check that more carefully next time.

Doubled letters and die breaks are not usually considered as varieties, merely mishaps as a result of mass production.

You better post some pictures to clarify the date, type and grade! All too often an EF Sovereign can turn out to be a Fair farthing, but I imagine you're better informed than that!

Sounds good Dave. If you do need help publishing (and marketing, which as you say, is the hardest part) then let me know.

Yes, you're right I have stupidly mentioned the value at the time of writing and have not mentioned the weight. I'll do that in the next one.

Who will be publishing it and what's it about? I'l PM you about the numbering!

Aidan Work, I see you just registered and posted a couple of times under the name 'BC Numismatics'. I don't care what you're called, you're a narrow minded rascist extremist bigot and you bring nothing but shame and cringe-worthy embarrassment to me and other members regardless if they happen to be members of the British commonwealth or not. No 2nd chances, you were banned before and you're still not welcome here.

He could have been hung like a donkey for all I know! With all those dastedly spikes and the ability to roll up into a ball it was impossible for even the vet to tell us what he was.

I think that's basically what I was saying! And if Igor was male then perhaps he has small sons and daughters in the garden now, even though they may have already out-lived him.

I don't quite know if he was really recovered, his leg hung around without doing much and he couldn't navigate. I'm not entirely sure if he was fit for the wild. However I think it was morally more correct that he had a friend/partner and that even if only for a short time, he was able to be with his own kin instead of fenced off.