Chris Perkins

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).

I don't have cyrillic installed, so that just looked like rubbish to me. I keep getting spam emails in Russian you know! Which is pointless of course. krasnaya, do you think they'd stop if they knew I can't understand a word, or even see most of the letters properly?

I'm sure those Siberian girls could do with a little warming up at this time of year (in fact, probably all year round up there!) but this is neither the time nor the place. Siberian girls should contact me, Peter or Slyvester directly!

Here's the image emailed to me after I resized them and played around a bit:

Email the picture to me and I'll post it: cp@predecimal.com

Someone has brought this to my attention: http://www.collectionexplorer.com/coins/download.htm Apparently, so far so good. There's a free trial, so perhaps some of you could give it a go and post feedback in here. It's American, so I don't know how suitable it is for Brits, but it does seem quite flexible.

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I got so fed up with deleting bloody spam adverts for porn, online gaming, dodgy medications, and today, Siberian girls of all things, that I have just disabled the ability for guests to start new topics in the 'Beginners Area' (as that was the area nearly always affected). Members are not affected at all, nor are any other areas....So lets see how it goes like this.

Not a bad beaded border penny. I'll leave you to the penny experts.

Please keep the topic in this area. I removed the other post because the picture didn't work. The image needs to be a few hundred kb at the most and preferably jpg format. You need to add it with the 'File Attachments' area, below the text of when you make a new post.