Chris Perkins

As far as I know, the Specimen ones were the same as the 'circulation' issues. Unless you call the issues in the small plastic cases specimens, which is probably what the book means. But they are indistinguishable. Don't forget the wonderful Churchill Crown, and the 1960 and 1953, as well as the later ones (although they were all £5 coin type crowns).

That was successful wasn't it.

Ok, I'll delete the other 2 topics that you started on this Dave!

Yes, and I believe the mint in colonial Pretoria is now the main modern South African mint (or at least part of it).

I don't think you'd be able to do worse than the genuine callers! Some of the rubbish they have sometimes makes me wonder why I sit in 3-4 hours of traffic each broadcast.

I didn't say there was, I'll be hiring one tomorrow too! (They must have been non VVC MGF's, or even the 1.6 Steptronic )

Late convertible XJS's are cheap, or at least relatively so compared to an XK8 convertible (like the one the baddy had in the Iceland chase on Ice in that recent Bond film). It bothers me that they are owned by Ford though, and in fact share the same chassis as the Aston Martin DB7 (also owned by Ford!).

It's sold and gone It went to the 3rd place man, who showed the most interest. Dad collected £950 in real cash money for it. I'm quite sad actually, because that was a damned good car. There aren't many TR7's these days that you'd be comfortable to drive to the Czech border and back again. Soon (when I sell the other one), I'll be without a Triumph for the first time in 10 years! I must get another!

Buy an album, some envelopes, coin trays, a book etc etc from the accessory section on http://www.predecimal.com Lots of people buy Christmas pressies from me.

I think with more expensive things I'll make it so that they have to have at least 10 positive. Good job it doesn't happen with coins. You coin people are an honest reliable lot aren't you, which is one of the things that keeps me doing it. You hear all kinds of horror stories about trading online, fortunately they rarely affect coin transactions. Give yourselves all a pat on the back.

He knew where the car was parked. My theory is that he saw it, didn't like it and simply went home and won't make contact. Or even worse, he nicked it! (dad hasn't checked yet, but I suppose that's pretty unlikely as I have his address). And I can't waste time, there are other TR7's and I want mine to go to the man who showed the most interest ASAP, before he finds another.

It turns out that the winner called the custodian of the car (my dad) and arracnged to go and get it today at midday. But, he never turned up, and now he has half an hour before dad offers it to the underbidder (who is still very keen).

I was expecting something like that. Had it been a perfect example and a convertible then it would have gone for 5x as much. I've just emailed an underbidder who was kind enough to come and see it twice and take it for a test drive. He can have it for £900 and I'll report the buyer to email, flag it as a non paying bidder and hopefully get the ebay fees back!

I didn't want in the last few minutes. No contact yet. I've sent him a message giving him 24hrs before I offer it to others.

Yes and no contact yet! I emailed last night. You'd think that most people, when they win a car they'd be ready and eager at the email wouldn't you! There was however a chap that took it for a test drive and was very interested. He was 3rd on the bidding, so I know at least that'd he'd probably have it for £900.

Claim it was a 1911 proof set in a red case, worth £500! Relistically they were probably worth about 1% of that if they were average circulated coins of Victoria or George V. If you don't know what they were, it's impossible to guess.

Gouby is good for pennies, and there may well be other specialists for other denominations. Use google to seach on 'coins gouby' or 'coins cooke'. I'd rather not give them free links! But they're not hard to find. Also, the forum here has a few unlisted varieties covered. Most people still refer to Peck, Freeman, Rayner etc. As far as I know, there is no definitive online version. You could also download my book, which lists quite a few, but isn't free: http://www.predecimal.com/books/bookshop.htm

It was the 10p, but only because the coin was made smaller and all larger 10p's/Florins were therefore demonetized. Rob is right about the double florin too.

Scrap value as 1936 pennies are relatively common in UNC condition for not a lot of money. Hence, no one (apart from a beginner or date collector) would want anything under EF.

Yes, you! Can you do me a separate email for each with a large picture in each. I'll then decide how to split this lot up into different forums, otherwise it's way too confusing.

Alright, you can stop now, that's too much and I'd like to organise them into other areas!

Can you also email me these picture at high res, best quality as you can. I'll certainly consider including them in the next book. cp@predecimal.com

It used to go back to just 1821, but I thought that illogical so pushed it back to 1797 as it marks the start of proper round machine made coins. In the future it could go back further, but then there will be the extra printing costs and weight to consider. With an under £5.00 price it can't contain everything. The best thing would be the Sylvester book covering milled up to 1800.

If die varieties are obvious to the naked eye on an average coin, and something different, as is the 1899 example above, then I see no harm in pointing them out in the book. I know what you mean though, and I'd really rather not go into the depth that Freeman etc go into!

There probably would, but making people find it and use it would be something else. For that kind of thing you would need a quite large and varied number of numismatists who collect various things to report on their types. And, I predict you'd probably have trouble confirming them! For example, an Australian emailed me the other day convinced that he had 1855 pennies, both plain trident with far colon and close colon. When I saw the pictures, although both worn, one was clearly ornamental! I think I'd only ever include varieties that I have seen photgraphic evidence, or the coin with my own eyes. Can you start another forum in this new area entitled 1899 wide date penny and put a copy of the picture in there? And also, do you have bigger, higher quality images to email me?