Chris Perkins

Oh that's good to know. They are supplied by Gardner's books, and Gardner's have been buying lots (over 700 so far) so that's a good sign. Was it in a prominent position? It's a good sign I suppose, that you saw it.

That was me! I did that. Idea, author, editor and publisher! I knew that it would kill 3 birds with one stone, so to speak. 1. Encourage new collectors' with a free coin, the likes many would never have seen. Like you say, the young collectors are the new generation. 2. Encourage sales with a free gift, and the only book of its kind with a free gift, and 3. Allow me to get shot of thousands of 1966 halfpennies! (I have another 2000 standing by) It seems to be selling quicker than previous editions at this stage. In what shop did you see it? WHSmith haven't ordered any from me yet, which is a pity as they might not be in time for Christmas at this rate.

It's a bit stylised, yes.

It's 1605 - 2005 and the 5s are stretched out.

As many as that! I would of thought it could be a lot lower. Mind you, worn ones are often seen.

Thanks. And let us know in here how much you get for it.

Moved this to the unlisted variety bit, so that I'll remember to add it in CCGB2009.

Yes, you're right, so it was.

I'd have it. But only to sell on for a small profit. So I'll leave it to someone else. From the invoice date, it's the 1st edition, which has a tiny bit less in it, but is still worth having for £110!

You mean you believe what other people say!? Sounds like you will want a copy of the Official British Coin Grading Guide, soon to be published by me (title TBC). It might just revolutionise the way eBay sell modern (post 1797) British Coins!

I bet your parents were pleased (if you told them)! That's the kind of thing that can put a nipper of coin collecting for life.

But there are always novices out there that think they're on to something and over grade the coins themselves, from the pictures. Buyer beware and all that. It all comes down to knowledge....and when neither buyer or seller have much of it, then things sometimes sell for falsely inflated prices!

You can get lucky sometimes, but it's hard work trying and can become very tiring after a while. I admire people that buy and sell on ebay (properly I mean, not just with endless suppies of new items) but you'll need to continue a lucky streak. On a related note, your grading of coins is very suspect. All I've seen have been overgraded or have had a higher grade implied. But, that in itself is common on ebay and the real collectors know what they're doing.

I expect you could easily find a novice to give you £2 each, but I'd certainly sell them for £1 each. I'd feel guilty asking much more! Good luck, I hope you can make £10 out of them!

They're worth about £4! One is very worn, one very polished, one very damaged and the other has verdigris. Well worth £4 of course because of the history and the dates themselves will fill holes. Have you seen my sales listings for halfpennies: http://www.predecimal.com/british-coins-ha...c-51_32_41.html There are some cheap ones there too.

Yes, well done I should have refered to one of the books that I publish for the answer! It's been 'identified' now (accurately, as far as I can tell) so at least you now can advertise it properly instead of saying 'Old Coin for Sale'. But, Geordie is right, it's a bit ol' manky that coin! I reckon it has to be worth £5 though because it's identified. In VF my book says £60, but that's a world away.

Looks like Hadrian in style, but without remaining letters it's very difficult to tell. Does it start with DIV? That would be DIVVS which would indicate whoever it is was dead at the time, and may help because not all emperors were important enough for postumous issues.

That's what I like to hear! It also costs about 1/5th as much too. I was in England the last week by the way, hence lack of posts for a few days.

I'm about 2.5 hrs South with loads and loads of British coins. You could come down to the Erzbebirge (bring your skis in February). Any British coins that you find in Berlin will probably be very well polished, overgraded and overpriced! I've not yet found a German coin dealer that actually knows what they are doing. Anyone know of any German coin dealers that know what they're doing???

I'll keep an eye on things and if any ever do get through I'll switch back to manaul validation!

Many of you will remember that a short while ago spam posts on the forum became beyond a joke. To eliviate this I switched to a mode whereby no guests could post anything and any new members were manually checked by me before their accounts were finally validated. This worked very well because spam bots usually have obvious email addresses originating in countries where most of the world's spam comes from, or often they have ellicit or advertising names in their usernames. Now that the forum software has been updated, every prospective new member has to enter a code which appears as a jumbled image. I've tested this, and it appears only real people have joined the forum since the software update! The spam bots are not clever enough to read the jumbled code. I have therefore turned off the manual validation and now, as soon as any real person joins the forum, they can start posting right away! It also saves me checking through the scores of spambot registrants to find real people.

My favourite of your female related banknotes is the last of the Spanish notes by the man who liked to paint women with jugs! You've put a lot of work into all of that and it's all very interesting.

I like the idea of people being able to see things without registering. If it wasn't for the persistant foreign spam bots guests would still be able to post messages.

No they are not worth anything. I just like them and they fit in with my other fakes from over the years.

That's something else I need to sort out then...although it would save huge amounts of bandwidth.