Peckris

Very little remaining lustre, some rubbing to the cheekbone, average strike ... you'd be lucky to get £20 for that one IMO. I think a real gem COULD rate £65, but not your average BU.

Post-minting graffiti (machine punched probably)

Spink 2014 gives an UNC value of £65. Ah it wasn't far off then. Thanks Take Spink prices for modern with a large pinch of salt - they wouldn't sell one for that price. CCGB is more accurate from a 'real world' perspective.

CCGB 2014 has it £30 UNC. A BU price isn't listed, but it would be £40 (1930 is £30/£40, and 1930 is a bit more difficult.)

Great video. Not sure what it has to do with Poundland scissors? (Though I have a pretty awesome set of 3 scissors from there..)

...plus me

It's definitely earlier than 6, as there is a big gap between the top of the head and the linear circle.

WRL is in the heading Rob Yes, but that doesn't tell the average person it is a reproduction. It's a very sly way of trying to cover your own backside. It doesn't say 'THIS IS A REPLICA'. I know WRL is one, you know it is too, but an awful lot of people see wrl in images without knowing its significance. The description says wrl, but also says in very good condition for its age. Methinks deception is intended. I've "informed" the seller of what he probably already knows, i.e. what "wrl" (sic) stands for.

Yes, Happy birthday

All UK silver pre-1947 is at least 50% silver, pre-1920 is sterling silver. All those worn shillings with a lion on a crown are at least 50% silver. I see an Edwardian example, which providing it's not dated 1905, is worth silver bullion value.

Any George VI silver that's dated before 1947 contains 50% REAL silver. They're worth many times face value, and Chris whose forum this is, would probably offer to buy them off you.

I think the changeover period was my own schooldays (the 60s) - I remember we had to have fountain pens exclusively, but biros were accepted later, e.g. for homework among other things. Having said that, I think we had to have fountain pens for O- and A-Level papers.

Youngster. N00b. ZX81? Hah! Some of us remember the ZX80... When I was a lad, we had quills. Quills? Why animals hadn't even evolved feathers when I were a lad! Fortunately, neither had writing ... we just slapped some clay on the cave wall and called it ug. Cave? Luxury. Our dad used to murder us in our sleep, then we had to get up before we went to bed and work a 25-hour day...

My first impression is, it looks normal? Don't forget that compared to pre-1927 reverses, it got a slight reduction in size - all over, except the rim and teeth which are a bit bigger.

Youngster. N00b. ZX81? Hah! Some of us remember the ZX80...

I use a Mac too. I posted a tutorial in how to upload pictures here using Picasa (when I posted it, the limit was a dismal 150k per post, but now it's 500k which is no hassle to reduce a jpeg to, if you follow the tut.) http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/7880-posting-pics/ But it would still be good to have decent-sized thumbnails so you don't necessarily have to click on them unless you need to see full details.

Master JMD I remember from my first incarnation here in ... 2005?

I don't understand this at all Dave. Why would the same seller offer the same coin at two different prices and grades on two different outlets? You call them 'robbing bar stewards', but if someone was to buy it from eBay then the sellers would lose out comparatively speaking. I just don't see what they stand to gain from this, unless their eBay shop is the newer enterprise and they're using it with a few 'loss leaders' to get it going. (With a score of only 41 stars, they obviously haven't been around that long?)

Yeah, me too. I belong to a photography forum where the "thumbnails" are somewhere between half and two-thirds the size of the actual picture. Here they're just dots on the horizon, completely useless. Chris, can we have much larger thumbnails please? Most people's broadband can easily cope with it.

Peckris aka one of the Mr Men characters, can we guess which one boys and girls?I was always a fan of the Mr !en... (lol, that was a quick edit! you are obviously Mr Finger-on-the-Button...)

Why don't we ask Chris to set up a "Nothing whatever to do with coins" forum? Oh wait...

Sad news. I never used their services but I remember them featuring in the Coin Monthlies of my youth.

I switch regularly between here and the other forums I'm a member of (buttons on my bookmarks bar!) - I do like to see 'New Content', but from time to time a whole day goes by before I check!

Yes, the sixpence is the best way to get a really beautiful UNC coin between 1920-26 without breaking the bank. And the other advantage is that it has the same 'high profile' obverse as 1911-20 so you get really well defined hair detail.

I do know they had great problems with the new alloy, especially from 1920-22. And that there was experimentation with nickel just after that. The 50% silver 50% copper comes as a slight surprise - I thought they had one or two other things in there in small quantities, e.g. tin?