Chris Perkins

Good point, I'd not thought that far ahead! ;-) I'm trying to find a company that can convert it into all popular ebook formats, not just PDF. This is harder than I thought as no one seems to answer me! So, it won't be available as a PDF until 2008. If you wanted a simple PDF with no bookmarks I could probably create that....£3.50 as usual. PM me.

Ah so this is another name for the hollow neck variety. I'm not sure why I removed that. Probably because I wasn't convinced by the 'hollow neck' description and that such a description could lead to confusion. I'll certainly put it back now, with a better description.

Right Geordie. It's much easier to sell a few thousand books per year compared to selling a few thousand magazines per month! WHS are not the easiest people to deal with, but there are specialist magazine distributors, unlike for books. Very difficult business.

That's if the members here would be able/willing to add something on a regular basis, which can be difficult with other comitments. I have no idea how one launches a regular magazine, and already have enough to do with the books! If someone wants to investigate properly (how to publish a magazine etc), I'm all ears. I already have a very good printer for the job.

It certainly isn't, and the seller fees for £400 are also more than £1, so no one acheives anything! A complete waste of space, like the vast majority of coins listed for sale on ebay. That's ebay's downfall and the reason that I don't usually bother looking for coins. Far too much badly graded, ill described utter toot.

New coins are all very well and obviously important for the world mints because they no doubt make a good profit on them and they therefore love to have them featured in magazines. But, most collectors are mainly interested in older coins (for UK coins that probably means pre Elizabeth II at least, and many collectors don't even touch milled!) In fact I don't know any serious collectors that even give modern issues a second glace, because they are targeted at so-called-collectors (always novices) and have very low residual values. I've seen the kind of German magazine that you refer to and I thought it was far too businessy, rather like a magazine for economists and investors than for collectors. I've not really paid much attention to them though because I'm not really interested in German coins and am even less interested in Euro coins. Surely German collectors would rather have something about older German coins, not just pre Euro but perhaps even pre WWI at least? I like the older Royal states German coinage, but with all the different Kings issuing coins it's far too complicated for its own good.

Clearly the seller has a number of IDs and has bid on it themselves for a laugh. Or, has asked friends to bid it up to that ridiculous level.

The pictures were very small Aprilia, but from what I could see, I wouldn't get your hopes up. It looks like the usual accumulation of the odd GIII copper mixed with mostly later copper and bronze, all of which looks to be quite worn. Try to link to larger pictures if you can and I'll tell you if any of the darker ones are worth doing anything with.

I've thought about it. I already know Rev Plant pretty well (who does the Lexicon in Coin News, and other features). I think I'd find it difficult to fill a magazine every month though. They obviously do too, hence the proportion of ads and silly things about new issues from Tuvalu!

They should be ok it the trays 'naked' but obviously monitor them often in case they are in a damp environment or have other external factors in play. I hope to post them out within a couple of days! Order volume at the time of year is increased and Lighthouse tend to slow down with deliveries too.

Sometimes nice things turn up, but it's pretty rare. I would estimate that for every 10 non collectors that contact me with inherited accumulations, probably les than 1 in 10 has something worth while. And probably 1 in 100 has something individually worth more than £30. But you never know, and quite often the silver value in the pre 1947 adds up to quite a bit more than the seller expects.

I am over on the UK frequently and within the EU it's just like sending within the UK....no VAT, very secure etc. But, yes try the Brummie address first by all means. I find that in most cases these sort of family accumulations are unfortunately normally run of the mill stuff.

I've noticed that non web coin dealers have to be a lot more selective as they have to always offer their best coins, coins that aren't just £1 each, or they are more trouble than they are worth. I find this is the case at coin fairs, in fact I don't even bother taking any normal George VI or Elizabeth II because it doesn't sell at coin fairs and just takes up room. On a website on the other hand, once they're listed I don't need to do anything. And it's amazing how popular George VI and Elizabeth II coins are! I'm even selling Churchill crowns at a good rate at the moment. If a collection sounds interesting enough and is postable, then I'm all ears and have lots of happy buyers and sellers. I'll also travel to see collections if the value is high.

Oh, for anyone else with coins to sell, there are always reliable postal options! For example me. Many people with coins to sell send them to me and I always make an offer based on a relistic proportion of how I will price them up.

None at all! They're just a business that buy new issues and package them to sell at a profit. I think they may also be involved in producing reproduction coins. I heard from someone else recently who was under the impression that this outfit was somehow the London representative of the Royal Mint. He had a silver crown that had been gold plated and had a diamond and ruby stuck in it, and couldn't understand why he couldn't sell it for what he paid for it, which was £70! Daylight robbery, as numismatically it has no value other than the metal and bling value! They are the same as Westminster Collection, who also like to sound official although they are not anywhere near Westminster. They buy stocks of obscure modern issues and sometimes UK leftovers and sell them to novice collectors or old ladies that read Sunday papers and imagine they might actually go up in value. I frown very strongly upon this activity, even though I am ashamed the say that the Royal mint do it too! No serious coin collector would ever buy anything from the so called London Mint, or from the Westminster Collection. I don't think either of them can sue me for stating the truth like that!

I think all German books of that era were in a kind of Gothic script with strange s's and other odd looking leters that appear more modernised now. My girlfriend (also German) has a German Tolstoi book in the Gothic script. It takes a bit of getting used to first. I know someone who has got an older edition (i'm not sure it it is contemporary to the life of the author). They are about, but certainly not on eBay! I have always found something comical about Hitler. In fact the Germans have just started turning him into a comical figure, which until recently was taboo.

I'm just starting to read this epic Hitler novel! It's just an attempt to try to discover how the most infamous man of the 20th century (and quite possibly - of all time) functioned. The German language version is illegal in Germany, so I smuggled an English one in from Waterstones. I'm starting to hate modern German censorship more that I hate Naziism, which is worrying....I can't even 'see' WWI British medals or any Irish medals on eBay from here, I just get a message that says they're not allowed to show it because of restrictions in the country I reside. In his lifetime did you know it sold 8 million German copies! That's a lot of books for what most people say is a very badly written, boring, monotonous and historically inaccurate (for the autobiographical parts) work. Just the translators notes and the introduction and background are like a little novel themselves and I havn't actually got to the main part yet.

Late in 2007 (possibly early 2008) a new edition of Check Your Change will be available. The first modern edition since the 1960s (published in 2007) sold very quickly, proving my incling that there would be enough interest in the current GB coinage to warrant a new edition of the book that - for so many, including Rotographic - started it all off!

Thankyou thankyou. I have overall responsiblity, so I take ultimate responsibility for all complaints or critisicms. Also, I take the full glory for any compliments and general kind remarks! (I'm going to move this topic to the Rotographic area)

I should put these as quotes on the Rotographic website.

Then you have the one with the better, non curly cover. I'll start doing the 2009 edition probably in about June, but quite often I'm still updating prices until a couple of weeks before it goes to print.

I have been thinking for a little while about doing some amateur videos, with me presenting of course and then putting them on YouTube. It would be a start!

That's all good to hear too. One of the Collectors' Coins GB books (the 1989 edition) helped me get into coins too when I discovered it in a shop which no longer exists in Eltham, London. I was amazed at all the varieties that existed and were not included in an old Spink I had. And of course, the price was so much more affordable to an 11 year old back then! (have you got the 2nd edition of the 2006, that one is marked as such inside and has a non curly cover). I've got most editions now in my Rotographic archive back to the 70s. For many of them I only have one though. You can see pictures here: http://www.rotographic.com/outofprint_rotographic.htm The first edition that I did was the 2005, which being my first book ever, was not entirely perfect! The cover ended up a bit too thin and the paper inside wasn't great quality. I switched to a different printing co. from 2006 onwards. The 2004 edition, the last one created by Richard Marles was a little be dated and as a book it was past its hayday in my opinion....it was still stapled together, produced on his own very dated press and quite plain looking. I do great deals for bulk, but ideally you need to buy at least 30. If interested PM me or email me through www.rotographic.com or this website.

It's a coin weight. Made to check in comparison with an actual Guinea. They are usually brass, and were made by the Royal Mint. I'm not quite sure about value though, it depends as ever, on the condition. I would imagine a well used one would be of low value.

I had one. Sold it to William (an old 'young' member on here who doesn't say much these days). They definitely exist, but I don't think the overdate is all that clear in comparison to others.