Chris Perkins

That's interesting, I have something similar...A Halfpenny that is shilling sized with a milled edge, although the millings are not the same as a shilling. Perhaps someone at the mint was playing around in the late 20's!

Your presidents wife probably has more respect for her than the current president!

Wanna do a deal on a 0.01g scale? I get them from the factory here in Merry old Deutschland.

We're you expecting a letter from the Queen? I'm not sure she checks here that often.

I think the server (or at least my allocated area) has run out of space! I've deleted some things, try it now.

Thanks Geordie. A couple of people have reported little errors, and all were fixed before it was printed. It's good to remove a few more. You just can't get the staff these days, although I suppose I cannot really expect proofreaders to be able to spot little historical inaccuracies.

Probably all 1964 to 1967 halfpennies and pennies are worth more as copper bullion (!) than they are as coins.

Is that so. I've got colour in my book too this year and I was hoping that would be a good selling point, but it seems everyone is going colour!

BBC three counties spoke to me on air about the rumour of doing away with the penny and twopenny. I told them my idea about making the shilling king again and having a decimal pound made up of 20 shillings (5p's).

at the age of 76 you must have a collection like no other where dose that leave you...i should say owning have the royal mint your collection must be massive you must own at least half the coins ever minted Collections aren't always about quantity are they. Despite his advanced years he might only have 10 carefully selected coins! Although judging from the gallery, that isn't the case.

That makes you the Kaiser of all things geeky

I'm 28 and have a little empire built on coins. I don't think people think I'm a geek at all, but I think some of my friends might be a little bit jealous that I have no boss, no 9 to 5 and can go where I want and do what I want as long as I put a few hours in each day...Or not!

It's a brass Victorian gaming token, from the reverse legend it sounds like it was made by NCR and Co. in Birmingham circa 1850's. Fascinating, but not all that desirable unfortunately.

Just because you've noticed he's now a member you felt you had to do a bit of brown tongueing!

I think that in the UK the 5p should be the smallest denomination, and that it should be re-named One Shilling, so we can have Pounds, Shillings and (just on paper) decimal pence!

Ok, sm, it certainly wouldn't hurt to have a mod in a different time zone. I'll make you a mod later and then give you some brief instructions.

I know! He probably uses mine to show sellers and sells to his buyers at his prices!

I don't think you can use bread as any kind of indication. In the 14th Cent. bread was all handmade by bakers, who obviously had to be able to charge enough so that they could support their families, buy their yeast, weat and fuel for the ovens etc. In 2006 bread is made in huge factories and distributed to huge supermarkets in huge lorries, so the price of bread, which is just a few pence for a cheap loaf must be lower in real terms that it was in the 14th century.

I do email Richard Lobel now and again. In last years edition he thought the prices were too low for lots of coins. Hopefully he'll like the 2007 version better and he's already expressed an interest in advertising in it.

Thanks! Yes, there really is a lot that can be done in the book industry to promote books and ones self. The previous owner just wasn't well informed, and I think his passion had died some time ago. He was also in his 70's...And you can't expect someone in their 70's to go running around to book fairs. Imagine going to Krause with a 2004 stapled together badly printed CCGB and asking them if they'd like to produce it in the USA! You'd have no chance whatsoever. No one had heard of Rotographic that I spoke to, but now a few people have, and they all liked the look of the books very much. And I'll go to the London book fair and Frankfurt every year from now on. People will start to remember Rotographic and it will grow.

Always difficult to work out exactly. Although houses, bread and beer are essentially the same, the industrial revolution and lots of other stuff inbetween means that all those things are probably cheaper to produce now than they would have been then!

I was at the Frankfurt book fair the last couple of days. It is huge, really. I had to meet a lady from Bertrams on the first day and arrived a little late mainly because it literally takes 20 minutes to walk very briskly from one end to the other, even using the moving walkways. The next day I found the buses! The lady from Bertrams seems to have taken me under her wing a bit, and does genuinely seem to want to help me out. She suggested that I attempt to do what a lot of small publishers do to generate a nice extra income: Sell some foreign rights to my books. So, I thought perhaps I could sell the US rights to the Roman books to an American publisher and I thought about selling the NZ and Australian rights to CCGB as it also covers lots of coins that were legal tender over there. Selling rights won't affect my sales in the UK, and it basically allows me to get into other countries without having people in them. Currently I sell the odd single book to the aforementioned countries, but don't have the means to get them distributed internationally in a big way. The main numismatic publishers in the USA are of course Krause and Whitman. Whitman weren't there, but Krause were and I actually met the top Krause man who did seem very positive about the British coin book, the Roman pair and England's Striking History. I learned also, that 'Krause' is not pronounced like everyone in the UK says it, i.e. 'Kraus' without saying the last 'e'. It's not even pronounced as it should be, being a German name and spoken like 'Krausa'. No, no, the people within the company all pronounce it as 'Kraus-ee', which is frankly ridiculous. So, I left book samples with Kraus-ee and I have the contact details for the right people etc. The top man said that they also wouldn't mind having a British coin book in the UK to complete with Spink, as apparently they have a UK wing that wants to grow things on their side of the pond. So, perhaps a 'Krause/Rotographic' publication, or something along those lines. Who knows. I also spoke to another American company who seemed interested in the Roman pair and possibly ESH. As for Aussie and NZ publishers, there were none there that do numismatic titles but I got huge lists of publishing houses from the respective Sheila's at the Aussie and NZ publishing associations stands. And while I was there I had a word with the British Musuem, Ashmolean Museum and English Heritage about selling my books in their gift shops. I gave out various sample books here and there and picked up loads of brochures and information about new ways to promote and sell my books. Everyone except one lady, who's name really is Sheila, was very nice to me. I joined the Independant Publishers Guild while I was there too. I think I did all I could, so I came home on day 3 (friday). It's bloody knackering on your feet wandering with a heavy case all day, but I'll certainly be there next year again, it's an important opportunity to get in peoples faces and promote my books.

I was at the Frankfurt bookfair, so wasn't able to check the last couple of day. Can you list the IP addresses of offenders that you delete in this area Oli/Syl, in this format, one per line: 192.168.72.4 (I've recently been banning whole ranges of spammer IPs and I think it does actually help reduce it slightly)

I like to make sure that I know my forum members as well as possible! Especially true with that rare specimen, the female forum member

Yes Tony, a pleasure. email me: cp@predecimal.com (I might be a bit quiet as I'm at the Frankfurt book fair for 3 days from tomorrow)