Chris Perkins

The edge error always has missing letters from 'DECUS' and at least 2 large spaces between words. A VF one went for £865 on ebay recently. As far as I'm aware, there is only one type of error on the 35 non proof, but slipages may well have caused more types. The error on the 35 proof version is due to the 3 part collar being arranged incorrectly. I have a 1951 error edge on eBay, which is not recorded.

It's an unnoficial 1953 Coronation coin, made quite crudely by a company somewhere to commemorate the event. It's not in the best shape and even it it were, they are not really very collectable I'm afraid.

If it's bent it's scrap bronze, unless it's some kind of rare type, which it probably isn't. There are a couple of penny people in here, no doubt one of them will notice this soon. I'm not sure if there are varities of 1863 and my Freeman (book on the subject) is right at the other side of the room!

His CD is £15.00

I collect....What are you bloody talking about! I don't want to buy your coins, that message in my signature is there because that's what some people do. And it is a bit tongue in cheek. And I don't know it all, but I certainly know a lot more than you. So, do you want to stick around and learn stuff or go off your trolley?

Yes, a waste of money, unless you find them so beautiful you can't live without them. Go for the older coins.

More likely it's simply a circulation coin that has been engraved as a keepsake. I have one somewhere with Bessie on it.

That's an impossible date. Please start your own topics in the future instead of gatecrashing other peoples.

I have an Edward VII Shilling with Bessie written on it, or at least I did have. It was popular at the time for young chaps about town to have the names of sweethearts engraved on coins. In fact, they did a lot more with coins back then, they coloured them in, made them into all kinds of elaborate jewellery etc. Probably because they actually contained some precious metal.

At this rate you'll soon be an adult brat! I'm not sure if the world is ready for that, but at least we have another year of you not having full adult rights.

Is that an actual picture of the coin? If it is, then that's a proof striking and you should describe it as such. If it isn't and yours is just a normal circulation piece, then you're misleading the 'public' and I'll have to remove this topic! And why exactly is it a unique chance to buy a rare piece? Or is that just ebay exaggeration based on your own patchy knowledge and wishful thinking! This really is a rare piece: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Wreath-Crown-UK-1934...1QQcmdZViewItem But it's not a unique chance to buy one, there will be others for sale at some point in the future!

The last one is Ottoman Empire (more than likely Turkey or Egypt). The others are possibly from the Indian state. I have no resource for those. Where your granddad was from, or had been may provide a clue.

You assume correctly, and that's always a good assumption to make with unknown coins! It's not a Crown. An actual crown would be thicker and silver. The portrait of the king is also very crude, unlike a real one, which looked fatter! What you have appears to be some kind of brass costume jewellery piece, or possibly it was a counter at one stage. The 2 lumps on the edge are where there was probably once a mount to attach a chain or something similar. It may not even be from 1823, it's likely that it's Victorian or it could have even been made in the 60's! A proof in 1823 was a coin struck in very limited numbers usually specially prepared dies and blanks, as a kind of trial piece.

I think you're thinking of 1933.

Very true, with the exception of the London ones of course.

Fraggle, do you have a well known British mountain as your surname? I have a book called 'Cronicle of the Roman Emperors'. It's like a biog of each one and very interesting, with a time line, lots of illustrations - contempory and of the some of the remains as they are now. It's available on Amazon.co.uk

Hello Neil, I'm pleased you finally noticed this! (and the rest of my website)

What really annoys me is when people use pictures with acres of space around the coin. I get emails like this, that are huge in size because the coin is a small dot in the middle of a vast desert of nothing! Is it really too difficult to use MS Paint or any simple graphics package to trim around the coin!

It's not a proof, I'll tell you that right away! The green bits really don't help. You'd have trouble persuading a coin collector to buy your coin, as long as others are out there without green bits...Especially as 1901 is not that expensive. For example, this halfpenny from the same year is currently priced at £18.00:

Thanks for the input Gary. Liberty Street will soon be using Rotographic prices, and there was talk about having the Peck/Freeman numbers included too, in the next version. So, the other one is a bit inflexible, fair enough. I've not tried it personally.

The Spanish are at it too are they! Both subjects were of course very Spanish.

krasnaya. you're going to go blind if you're not to careful!

Yeah, like you'd push her out of bed for making biscuit crumbs!

Is that snow or sand she's sitting on?

It could also be a 1901 Maundy 1d, which would of course by default be very prooflike (and small and silver, not bronze).