Chris Perkins

You should really tell us what coin it is first. In my experience each 'extremely rare' coin is different. Some are worth just a couple of hundred pounds, some are worth a couple of thousand, some more. It depends on what it is, and like you say, the demand for whatever denomination it is. In my book, there are not a lot of occurences of 'extremely rare' and where there are 'extremely rare's they usually concern coins that are highly unlikely to be out there in the hands of the public.

Rotographic.com was once owned by a French printing company. All attempts at communication with them failed and I gave up for a while. A year or 2 later I noticed it was registered to a Russian domain company, so I contacted them and they offered it to me. They bought it at an auction of expiring/ed domain names, so it wasn't like they had me in mind. I used escrow.com to make the payment (very important because I wouldn't trust a Russian as far as I could walk across Russia).

It's not a bad name, but probably wouldn't be of huge value. Most people that want to sell 'naked' domain names (i.e. without a website running from them) always tend to want far too much for them! It would have more of a value if an established website was already running. And how does it work with non top level domains? I mean, the domain name here is gb.com and coins.gb.com is a sub domain is it not? It must have at one stage been sold be the people that own gb.com. Any buyer would need to consider the level of importance that google would give to a website containing the word 'coins' that wasn't a sub domain, like somecoins.com in comparison to a domain name containing a '.'. I'm not sure how they rank those. Rotographic.com wasn't cheap, but it was something I needed and I got about 40% off the owners initial asking price.

Of course you can.

I think it gives more ownership to posts if the people posting them are unable to change something the next day, or delete something, or add something. It sort of sets things in stone a little.

Welcome Aidan. Your forum is good, but way too big with all those catagories on the opening page. It scared me off a little. Can you have simple categroies for the various countries and then 'child' catagories for the various subjects? Just my opinion.

The editing feature only lasts a few minutes. This is to prevent people changing their opinions or deleting things days later.

Those are not nice enough to be collectable, but they do have a little value for the silver content. For every 12 halfcrowns dated from 1920 - 1946 I'll pay £7.00 as scrap silver.

I just had a look and it's rank is higher than the 2006 edition, even though it's not available yet. Which is great of course, but I still have stock of the 2006 version that ideally I'd like to sell out of!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0948964...3401424?ie=UTF8 I wanted to make a big thing of the fact that gold is included in this edition (for the first time).

Lloyd Roberts, Loverly man, buys some of my books!

I think it's basically just one bloke (Dr K Clancy) that deals with odd enquiries. He's a member of the BNS, so the easiest way to catch him might be to join and then go to a main metting that he has a history of attending. Threaten to de-face a coin of the realm until he has a look at your questionable coin! I have a pic of him somewhere if anyone wants to try it.

That's a Coventry Halfpenny Conder token I believe. It's actually a naked Lady Godiva on the obverse. It's circa 1792.

There are only 2 listed in the book, but it is mis-leading, I'll change that.

Here's another open 3 example (pictures from Gouby himself). The right image is a normal '3', the other 2 are open.

Good theory, In places, or possibly all over - it's hard to tell - the centre core does seem a bit thicker than the outer. Something that bemused me too is the face that the centre part is larger than a properly made £2 centre part!

I wish I had a set of 2006 loose coins for comparison. All I've got is sealed 2006 sets. I think it was struck in a £2 collar because it's the right size. The edge is irregular, kind of varying thicknesses and some of the milling is missing. So how come there are elements of the £2 design on the IKB side? It has chains in the top left of the reverse, like a proper £2? The rest of the outer part are pure 50p, apart from the shape and edge milling. I'd love to send it to the mint to see if they could explain exactly what went wrong....But I don't want it dissapearing for months!

I used the '85 edition for the numbering, but after a while the whole thing can get confusing. All I can do now though is check against the 1970 edition for the things mentioned.

The open 3 looks like a completely different 3 to me.

Yes, there are pics in Gouby's book....I described them a little incorrectly above. Normal 3: The lower serif of the 3 points at the top serif. You could imagine joining them up with a short line. Open 3: The lower serif points at the top of the '0'. The top serif is also more opened and they don't point at each other at all! I shouldn't think he'll mint if I scan and post his pic, but I better ask first.

Yes, that's the normal one.

I'm not really all that up on US coins, but I believe the silver coloured Cents are all pretty common.

Thanks, I'll check those and make necessary amendments in the 2007 edition. Which Freeman do you have? I borrowed the latest for the book and have given it back and just have the 1970 edition here. The open '3' 1903 penny has a bottom tail that points below the '0'. It's in Gouby's book....I'll elaborate tomorrow.

I already considered listing a £2.50 coin in the decimal section of a book!

Hard to say, because I can't remember all of them! I like it because it's a mixture of 2 coins.