Peckris

It's Mission Impossible. Define which coins there should be spaces for - every Peck, Freeman, Satin, and Gouby variety? All date spacings? Unbarred H's? Doubled letters in the legend? Missing serifs? Recut letters or numerals? 2's and 3's at varying angles? Every instance of ultra-rare die number even if you couldn't possibly get them? Define your own complete series, and put them in a blank album using Coindex flips where you can print or write the details on a slip of coloured card that slots into the upper flip. The only bespoke albums are - for example - the Whitman series, but they only contain the major varieties.

Colin was very fair, even if you didn't agree 100% with his grading - and it was never more than half a grade out. Compare him with a certain dealer who always had a full page ad in Coin News : his grades were at least a full grade over-optimistic, sometimes more. However, like CC, he always gave prompt refunds if coins were returned; I just didn't like his unspoken "There will always be a few suckers or newbies" attitude which must have lain behind his grading. I rarely bought from him, never kept a single coin, unlike CC who I used many times over.

I sent one back to CC because of the grading Colin died 7 years ago. I sent coins back before he died. Overall one of the better honest dealers. Jeffrey,Barry Murphy,Saltford,Anthony Hulse,Ian Pratt(sells at the Midland) are all highly recommended. and Cambridge Coins for the bargains CC grading is as bad as MP in my opinion. Both quote at least one full grade over actual, although MP takes the biscuit on price. My experience with CC was exactly the same - a few coins returned over their grade. The BIG difference between him and less than honest people is that there was never any quibble over getting a full refund with no questions asked.

Because there are some Pennies there (millions and trillions of them) in the shape of black gloopy stuff and apparently the Argies want Las Malvinas back (nowt to do with the black gloopy stuff of course). Anyway in for a crap election result in for a war (Mrs T's motto I am told, that is being reborn under the coaffliction government). The voter has spoken, and ConDemned the ConDoms

I've never found a definitive answer as to what they were used for, but there is an interesting paragraph in the 1869 book by George Frederick Ansell, published in 1870, who worked in The Royal Mint at that time. He says: "For the past four of five years the reverse die has been made to carry, in addition to its recognised device, a small number, with a view to determine at which coining press, and on what particular day, the numbered die was used, that bad work might be traced to an individual. It need hardly be said that accidents encountered in daily work entirely overcome the object being sought, for a die may last either minutes or days in wear owing to the irregularities of the steel from which it is made, and besides, the boys who work the presses are of necessity changed at irregular intervals." They were needed up chimneys, I guess? Or perhaps they were so young that "changed" referred to nappies

That's just cruel, Peter. Nice 1904 florin, Paulus. Thanks Nick and Dave, and to Peter, anyone else want to make a stab at a grade? I'd say EF but maybe a tad better? There is a bit of flattening. Nice coin.

To be honest ciandon, videos aren't the ideal way to view objects that are static and could just as easily be shown (usually in far sharper detail) in a photograph. How about taking some pics with a normal camera and posting them? Hear, hear.

Pretty unusual for 20thC coins - well spotted.

Only 7 weeks It would take me longer to establish I couldn't get out of Kelly Brooks bed. And a lifetime discovering you'll never get into it

Nah. Well, not saying

POIDH Pidh? i mean't cleaning no camera an my phone is bad Pictures Or It Didn't Happen, ie, where are the photos Patrick?! Never thought I'd have to teach a youngster internet slang! Did you have something to say to us Patrick, or you just quoting in appreciation?

Now who might that be...? Does it begin with 'C' and end with 'T'?

I have a 1949 edition Full title is Seaby's catalogues-Copper coins and tokens-British Isles A wonderful reference; It covers Roman coins struck in Britain during the occupation,Anglo-Saxon sceats,English copper coins 1860-1936,Billion and copper coins of Scotland,Irish coppers etc,Coins and tokens of the Isle of Man,Coins of Lundy Island,Copper coins and tokens of the Channel islands,17C tokens,An introduction to 18C tradesmen's tokens (by Peck ),18C tokens,19C silver tokens & 19C copper tokens. I note that this publication records the large date 1737 1/4d which that "slacker" Peck missed 11 years later The preface lists Trade tokens in the 17C by W Boyne 1889-91 Provincial token coinage of 18C D&H 1910-18 The silver token coinage by Dalton 1922 The 19C token coinage by WJ Davis 1904 Seaby goes on to say the book is not a complete list as he was aware of 15,000 copper 17C tokens Happy hunting Dave....is there a book in you? Mine is the 1965 edition - not sure it's quite as comprehensive as yours, but it may be!

Don't worry - I hate seeing coins in videos and I never bother to even look. The detail is fuzzy and poor and I wonder why people bother.

To be quite honest Chris, I just can't get past those awful scans, which somehow make any lustre disappear completely, and the tone look like ... well, horrible! Subconsciously I know full well that the coins will look 1000% better 'in hand', but somehow the pictures put me right off. But maybe I'm not the right person to comment as I have precious little to spend on coins these days.

not a chant im familier with mr peck!!!!! The 1978 Scots fans were the originators of the "We're on the march with ........ Army" chant. In their case it was "Ally's Army". He was the manager who sent his team off to the Argentina World Cup via a tickertape, helicopter send off from Hampden Park. So I just conflated the two things.

Minnie Mouse has got it all sewn up - she gets more fan mail than the Pope.

POIDH Pidh? i mean't cleaning You'll be too young to remember "Allo Allo". It was set in wartime France but featured the French, the Germans, and the English. As everyone spoke English (it was a British sitcom) they had to convey everything via accent. So the Brits spoke "Jolly good wheeze, top hole!", the French with French accents and the Germans with German accents. The stroke of genius was when a British undercover agent was introduced who played a gendarme but whose French was very bad. How to get round that one? Stroke of genius! They got him to play the part in English with a French accent, but to set him apart from the "true" French all his vowel sounds were wrong. So every episode he would come in and say "Good moaning". Hence the big giggle at your "froning" On a serious note, PLEASE don't take too much notice of Spink catalogue values. They're really just a guide. If you go to a coin fair you would get a more realistic idea of real values of coins. You would also be surprised at what you could pick up cheap from dealers loose trays, e.g. the £1 tray, or £5 tray, or whatever. And also remember that whatever you see a coin SOLD for, a dealer would pay you half that (if it's typical non-rare fairly modern stuff).

Not sure I agree. I find it very difficult to make out fine detaIL on YouTube - I much prefer still photos and I wish people wouldn't post videos of coins.

It's also worth mentioning that Seaby published a separate catalogue of copper coins in the 1960s, which included tokens. If you can still find a copy it is fantastic for identification purposes, and a look at the values - though well out of date - will give an idea of comparative rarity.

it's simple the penny is going down hill because the pound is going down hill,the pound is going down hill because the country is going down hill, in recent months you've had what was called called devaluation of the pound now known as Quantitative easing -printing mony mony with no value,the problem is not the penny but what gives the penny worth. Oh dear. This is all very serious. What happened to our light-hearted banter? Pffffft. In some countries the smaller denominations still exist but are no longer used. Make the 5p the smallest used denomination and if you need to give change for less than 5p give them a sweet or something. err hang on, can you still get a boiled sweet for less than 5p Ah, the Italian 'small change' standby for decades! Now they just give Silvio Berlasconi cast offs (once they've reached legal age )

I can remember at junior school we did a project on TDC.Talk about give me six. Unhealthy and inbred and rains 75% of the time (sounds like Norfolk ) Don't let Alan Partridge hear you say that!

it's simple the penny is going down hill because the pound is going down hill,the pound is going down hill because the country is going down hill, in recent months you've had what was called called devaluation of the pound now known as Quantitative easing -printing mony mony with no value,the problem is not the penny but what gives the penny worth. Oh dear. This is all very serious. What happened to our light-hearted banter? Pffffft.

ive met your type in tesco's......chasing after the girl guides........have you got a licence for that zimmer of yours it just goes to show though how difficult it would be to maybe do away with the lesser coinage...or maybe not, just the 10p becomes the lowest denomination, or as you say peck, 10p becomes a penny and theres 10 to the pound. but what if........... when the pound becomes the lowest denomination..........and then the 2squid.......etc etc ad nausium ad infinitum. thank god for tanners and double florins That's the easy bit - just rename it a "penny" and let the pounds look after themselves

About as long as Ally MacLeod - with not much more to show for it All together now - "We're on the march with Hodgie's Army, we're gonna leave for the Euros via a helicopter that picks us up from Wembley.."