Chris Perkins

Another German made item of toy money. A miniature copy of the real thing, but not in gold. There was another enquiry about one of these a couple of days ago.

Where? I can't see one. I have over 3600 feedback and they've earned thousands out of me as fees, and they don't want to know!

Hello Joe. Are you having probs? You never seem to write anything new, you just quote what others have said.

Yes, I take full responsibility for all the spelling mistakes!

Hmmm, I have in the past sold high volumes in the form of coins and I've also even bought the odd car on ebay. They never gave me a phone number! I just get the email morons. Had they given me a phone number I would have no doubt continued to sell higher value items on ebay. I think the lack of support with ebay is the biggest turn off. Even the fees don't bother me compared to the support aspect. Oh and the totalitarian way they rip your listing off in a flash without warning or asking nicely if you can change something.

What, do they have a phone number?? In the past when I've emailed them I've just received copied chunks from their User Agreement, which is usually useless when you have a specific problem (for example when they banned me for selling my own ebooks!). When a real person responds I have often felt that English wasn't their first language.

I like the coin of ABBA! Though they are Anglo-Saxon, there's definitely a Scandinavian influence there.

Well if you dug them up then the chances are good! No doubt someone else will be along soon that knows the Ango-Saxon period better.

They look a bit too nice, are they real? I thought I could notice the tell-tale sign of a couple of them being 2 thin coins stuck together, i.e. electrotypes.

Hello Andrew. Yes, that's normal for that coin.

That's one of the disadvantages of not being able to see the user IDs anymore (due to fraudulent Far Eastern 2nd chance offers). Only ebay can now tell if people are Shill bidding, and of course they probably don't give a hoot because they get their fees regardless, in fact if people bid their own items up unsuccessfully, ebay get even more fees. Have you seen the notices now that listings in some categories can only be paid for with paypal and nothing else?! Ebay own paypal of course and have long since been doing everything they can to promote paypal as the ONLY and 'preferred' method of payment for ebay items....but I don't suppose that breaks any monopoly rules as online and crossborder laws are usually stuck in the era from which Geordie posseses the most coins! In a couple of years will paypal be forced as the only payment method on everything I wonder?

Shill bidding is when you bid on your own things with a 2nd ID or get a friend to bid on your things with no intention of ever buying them in order to inflate the price artificially. i.e. if those bids up to over £100 are fakes and some plonker comes along, re-assured by the current level and wins it for £103, then the seller suceeds in selling a £3 coin for a heart wrenching price.

Bloody hell! I sell them like that for £3. And I'd scrub it up FOC if so desired! I hope that's Shill Bidding. If it isn't there should be a lot of people in need of the forthcoming Rotographic British coin grading guide.

No, I didn't deliver any personally. I was supposed to deliver a book, but forgot to take it with! But, had my bonnet not tore off my car while travelling at 70mph and had the police not stopped me for speeding on the way to the airport (in a hire car) then I wouldn't have missed my flight and I wouldn't have had to stay an extra day. Had I not stayed an extra day, I wouldn't have bought lots of .500 scrap silver from a man in Enfield and I wouldn't have made a nice little profit to cover some of my car related expenses over Christmas! Funny how things work out.

The same from me.

Oh right. But you did say above "with the I of Elizabeth pointing further to the right of the corner".

The one in the picture has a spot next to the 'T' but apart from that is nice, prooflike in fact: http://www.predecimal.com/threepence-1953-chunc-p-7132.html

Only in higher grades though, no one would want a Fine 1957S even though in true UNC they aren't that common. I find that I simply cannot sell anything from the 40s/50s without it being UNC or preferably BU. I thought there was a loophole something along the lines of it only being illegal to melt down current coins, hence the melting of pre 47 silver and pre 1970 Cu-Ni should be completely legal.

Bent, holed, completely flat etc doesn't matter at all for bullion coins. What else I always need (generalising) is BU 1940s and 50s coins, UNC 1930s coins and at least GEF 1920s coins. Gold coins always welcome and as are special/unusual coins like Wreath crowns. Anything older than 1920 should be at least VF usually (a few exeptions, e.g. 1905 shillings and most Edward VII is collectable in Fine). Fine is often acceptable for Victorian and older. You can email me at cp@predecimal.com Where are you? I could possibly arrange collection if you're not too far.

Any that are like new (really really perfect) should be kept. I imagine the vast majority, most likely all of them, will be face value fodder.

I've given this poster the details of Mr Lutt in Bedford who buys huge amounts of average circulated predecimal currency. The chance of anything being in there with any significant value is very low.

I bought a load of pre '47 silver yesterday. Paid 7x face, which would be about £440 for 500 half crowns I believe. It was mostly florins and shillings and came to £1080. I had to leave them in the UK though as it would have been far too heavy for Ryanair baggage allowance! I'd offer £440 plus your postage costs within the UK if you want to save ebay fuss.

I was in England over Christmas actually. It was an interesting trip with a very expensive begininng and end. I'll probably put more details in the non coin part as it wasn't really anything to do with coins.

I'm confused too! Can somone now list the 1911 varieties properly, and numbered from 1 - 4 or however many there are!

That looks fabulous doesn't it! Who can put a value on it when no one has recorded it? Spink would just guess, like I would guess. That kind of coin would be good for an auction because then the bidders would decide. I'd offer hard cash for it right here though!