Chris Perkins

Thanks brg. I've also got one or two of the 1879 with St George reverse. And that explains why the 1808 and WmIV are not in my 2005 edition of Unusual World Coins. It looks like some of the IOM reverse were 360 mintage, but yes, it may as well be 3.6 million as they seem to be cheap and readily available. I'll do some pictures of the Hearn EdVIII patterns I have and perhaps start a new thread for them. There are notable differences in the quality, but I don't think I have enough of them to warrant a £50 new book purchase.

There's some info in Krause's 'Unusual World Coins'. I've got the 4th edition and the YH 1879 and most of the later monarchs are included, but not all. None of the WmIV and earlier Kings are included. I also have some of the Hearn bust Edward VIII fantasy crowns and they vary greatly in style, some appearing much cruder than others. I know that they were designed in the 40s, but to me it seems they were re-struck over many years and I expect the most modern are the crudest.

Ok, well I'll take the Glens, how much inc postage to Germany? I don't mind returning the Spink 158 and paying recorded postage both ways, but I understand if you'd rather not risk losing the only one you have. I think I've probably got about 100 different types, so may start getting on your nerves with questions ;). Do either catalogue include the weights? I think I probably have a couple of piedforts as they are thicker than others but not double thickness like modern RM piedforts tend to be.

Many of you have probably heard of and even seen the odd Spink commissioned fantasy pattern coins made by INA Ltd of Birmingham and auctioned in 2001. I know that they were originally UK monarch obverses designed for some African commemorative issue of coins that never went ahead and that the obverses were then paired with newly designed reverses similar to contemporary coins (both UK types and colonial) and that they were issued in various metals/thicknesses. Donald Golder did the obverses and I think also many of the reverses. The quality is actually very high (for most of them). Some of the Edward VIII issues use a bust by Percy Metcalfe, which is interesting. A few seem to have sterling hallmarks on the edges too. They were controversial at the time and many have been passed from dealer to dealer ever since! Most sell for just a few quid. I've ended up with some and would love to know if anyone here has the original auction catalogue (Rob?) so that I can get to grips with them just in case I have a rare one among the few-pounds jobbies before I pass them all on to another dealer! Some of them have very, very low mintages, there are known mules and some can sell for decent money. A couple of the '1879' young head Victoria crown sized issues are attached below. I think the silver coloured one is silver.

You know what, I don't actually have it on the website! Book sales are slow on the website and Amazon seem to sell them pretty well. It's also on ebay, there are a few sellers there. In fact I think the cheapest price I saw for it was on ebay.

A few of the Olympic coins are worth a couple of quid, even in used condition. There is also the odd £2 and £1 worth (consistently) more than face value, and no one really seems to care much about condition in the world of decimal collectors! Get my book, all the answers are there Matt... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Collectors-Coins-Decimal-Issues-Kingdom/dp/0948964782/ref=as_sl_pc_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=predecimalcoi-21&linkCode=w00&linkId=&creativeASIN=0948964782

Do you know what range of IP addresses you get assigned from your home connection?

How are things now everyone? There were some IP addresses being blocked. They seem to have been added automatically, so I've removed them all now (and that were spammers have probably long since moved on to spamming somewhere else).

The 1983 one is quite sought after, the rest are a bit slow (unless quite cheap). They are essentially a Royal Mint sales gimmick - making a coin twice as thick. It works when they're new, but 2nd hand they are generally slow unless priced just a little more than the normal silver proof versions (which are normally around £15 I think).

The 403 errors should no longer happen.

All upgraded now. How is it? If 403's still happen I need to know and IP address of someone that experienced it and the exact time it happened so that we can check the logs. The hosts say it sounds like a false positive with one of the firewalls.

I've upgraded the forum, how is it now?

Hmmm. I've just notified the website host man to see if he can shed any light.

Yes, but as jacinbox was first to register an interest, can we see what he says first?

£50 inc recorded postage is fine by me.

Thanks Colin. So £50 then jacinbox? Lots of lustre, well worth that I think (and if you disagree you can return it).

Oh yes, I'm with you now!

It does read like 25p but I think he meant .25 of a pee. 0.0025.

Yes, that bit needs changing doesn't it! OMG.

I was hoping for more than face, if I'm honest.

Not bad is it. It's for sale of course. What's fair?

I always make a point of putting 1953 farthings aside to check properly later. And discovered this one today. A 2+A in high grade with good lustre. Loss of lustre on the high parts, old finger print traces on rev. I bet PCGS would call it MS something RB. It's GEF though, surely. Sorry about the quick phone pics.

Ok. I can't remember how long I had that. Big coincidence that I'd found it a couple of days before you posted this topic.

As the potential seller here I'll be honest and say that GV (normal dates) aren't really that hot at the moment. That isn't to say they won't be at some point in the future and I'd say that the highest possible grades are not only the best to buy (they won't be making any more) for reasons previously covered, but they are also much easier to sell should you need to. It won't always mean a profit in 10+ years, but they will at least be easy to move on and if bought carefully I think in the event of a loss it will be very minimal. Just buy what you like the look of and if you receive something that you are not comfortable with, send it back. Any half decent dealer will take things back without taking offence.

No coin dealer would react badly if you were to write and make an offer on something, that's usually the way things are sold in a live environment, so I don't see why it should be different online. A lot of my coins sell quite quickly, but for those that have been sitting for a while I'd gladly accept a reasonable offer. Which one do you mean?