Chris Perkins

It goes to show that values are all due to the hype (and the perceived 'rarity' generated) and nothing to do with the mintage numbers. I think with the coins in sets, packs etc the Kew coin mintage is actually more like 500,000. A really rare one to find would be the 1999 standard £2 coin. 38 million made, but I bet you can't find an UNC one. They didn't go into sets and buying annual sets is the easy (dare I say, lazy) option that most people take. And the 2007 slave trade £2 without the DG initials (all the coins in sets had DG on the reverse). Very rare in UNC, again, because people just collect sets and not actual coins. I'm currently putting a website together in conjunction with my "Collectors' Coins - Decimal Issues of the UK" book. Here: www.checkyourchange.co.uk Oh, and a lot of the hype would appear to originate (although I can't confirm this) from companies that have a vested interest in certain coins becoming higher in value. Pump and dump someone called it.

Blimey, no, this other fellow has a Turkish? (or Eastern of some kind) looking name. The other Aiden was the one that worshipped Ian Paisley like a god and then started to become offensive very quickly.

Yes, that name rings a bell! False alarm here.

Hello John, Are you also the chap that tends to loiter on facebook, posting pics of amazing coins among the (mostly) Olympic 50p's, coloured snowmen and Tristan Da Cunha medallions?

I don't think you can go by the RM sales pics normally, as they are usually made up processed pictures and always look better than the real coin. To compare you'd have to see pics of other actual coins. I think the RM initially actually showed the wrong obverse on their website for this coin.

Blimey, get well soon (like right way) Peter.

Just to update this: Coinery wasn't ignored, in the end I was able to fix his problem and he's back on in full force.

Do they usually have links in their profile? Perhaps it's just so that the search engines index those and improve the ranking for people that search for whatever it is. Or it possibly could be simply to appear to be real so that the IP address/user ID gets marked as a good one so that they get access to spam somewhere else. Or maybe it's some kind of spambot test programme to help them develop their spamming skills. I really don't know. It does seem a bit pointless.

That's a tough one that isn't it. Much harder to find than those sill 1m+ mintage Olympic 50pees etc.

Yes, they always go for gold don't they. It doesn't really matter what it costs because they know they aren't really paying for it and that it's always worth a decent amount in bullion and easy to move on for cash. And you can often tell when you speak to people over email or telephone... genuine collectors or even gold investors know what they're looking for and com over as savvy. Fraudsters just want you to send them anything quickly, for free!

Reporting this here so that the address and details can be found on search engines. I won't reveal any full names for this one because there is a very slim chance that it was genuine. Last week a lady called Rachel emailed me asking if I had a sovereign I could sell her as a present for her boyfriend on their anniversary. She wasn't fussy about the date but said she needed it within a couple of days. I said that wouldn't be a problem. She said she'd like to pay with a card and sent the card details over email (which isn't secure and something I never recommend, I have secure links for card payments). She gave the delivery address as a flat in Granville Road, London NW2 2AZ (her boyfriends address apparently). The billing address she gave for the card was: Suite 203 5 charter house, Lord Montgomery Way Portsmouth PO1 2SN I thought this looked an odd address so checked it out. It's actually a Mail Boxes Etc address (basically a post office box) and that raised my suspicions further. I pointed it out to her and asked if she could provide something more substantial as a Hotmail email address and a Mail box billing address with a different posting address. She said she'd get back to me later from a landline number, but never did. It's very likely this was an attempted fraud.

Should have read: above the YOU. Changed it.

About 3 of them go for more than the rest (Judo, Wrestling, Football and possibly another that I've forgotten...>Triathlon I think). And the completer medal thing is expensive if you have one of those. I'm not into them, but have to keep up with these things for "Collectors' Coins - Decimal Issues of the UK".

It's the 2014 Kitchener coin Dave, but I think the 'error' (that affects the writing above the 'YOU') is possibly more common than the 'normal' one. I think it's just a bit blobby/filled, but I haven't actually seen either properly yet.

I don't see why it shouldn't work for a youtube vid, when it seemed to work above.

The vast majority are just worth the gold value, especially 1870s and later. If you click on the more options below, there is a thing to allow you to attach pictures. It is a bit fiddly though! My email is cp@predecimal.com

It will probably depend on how deep/serious the 2 marks are on it. Most of them are worth around the gold value. Perhaps you could attach or link to pictures of it.

I expect the same is probably true for the 2007 Slave trade £2 without the DG initials on it. It's a minor variety of course, and to most a DG coin from a pack will do the trick if you want UNC. The one without DG was the one that circulated in massive numbers, so I bet you can't find one (in UNC). Same for the large head 1992 20p. At first they were both pretty common, but as the large heads were the ones that circulated, they are rarer in UNC now than the smaller head coins from sets.

Hello, Shillingsrfun. I'd be pleased to have a look at them. You can email or post pics here, or just send them all to me. A lot will probably be bullion, but I will look at each one carefully. And thanks for the recommendations above.

It's a bit blobby indeed, like all modern coins, but I think it's attractive despite the blobbiness. The trident looks a bit small, more like a fork than a mighty trident.

I found this today, in my own forum, from a google search! I'd also be interested in pictures of the decimal varieties of 1p if anyone can provide some that I can use on the web and possibly in books.

Nothing to do with ebay. There are some people that sell things without ebay!

This 'James Hughes' or whatever his real name is seems to have been busy lately! I've just heard from another customer/dealer friend of mine. He received an £800 cheque that bounced and then found this topic via google.

I find GV a pig to photograph. I think it's possible that the coin we're all talking about may well have original lustre all over, even on the weak bits. It's possible that it is therefore UNC, but obviously with some strike problems etc. Weak strikes are not as attractive and I understand people that class weak strikes the same as wear, but if that has full lustre, then technically it's UNC! We'd all have to see it in the flesh. I personally can't see anything on it that I could say was definitely wear and not weakness.

And I'm not sure if the cheque book is stolen. I should have got dad to do a copy of it before paying it in. Sound, is the name on the cheque book also J Hughes? I suppose it's likely to be a cheque book that belongs to the real J Hughes who is completely innocent.