Is this news? 1841 penny variety?

[freewheels]

1841 penny with first R of Britannia clearly overstruck with a B.

[freewheels]

Here is obverse not too exciting:

[£400 for a Penny ?]

Dunno. I have yet to find a copy of Peck in my wanderings - I will one day, but no joy yet.

I pumped his name into google just now and guess who's website was the number 1 result ?

http://www.argentumandcoins.co.uk/english-copper-tin-and-bronze-coins-in-the-british-museum-c-w-peck-1401-p.asp

Must be doing something right...

[argentumandcoins]

I didn't say I didn't bother with waffle on my site listings

[Peckris]

Dunno. I have yet to find a copy of Peck in my wanderings - I will one day, but no joy yet.

I pumped his name into google just now and guess who's website was the number 1 result ?

http://www.argentumandcoins.co.uk/english-copper-tin-and-bronze-coins-in-the-british-museum-c-w-peck-1401-p.asp

Must be doing something right...

Peck has nothing to say about it. He rarely bothers with overpunched letters, just the occasional overstruck date.

[1949threepence]

Dunno. I have yet to find a copy of Peck in my wanderings - I will one day, but no joy yet.

I pumped his name into google just now and guess who's website was the number 1 result ?

http://www.argentumandcoins.co.uk/english-copper-tin-and-bronze-coins-in-the-british-museum-c-w-peck-1401-p.asp

Must be doing something right...

I must get myself a Peck as soon as I can afford one. There are just two available on Amazon, both later editions than the original offered by argentum, and both more expensive.

[£400 for a Penny ?]

Dunno. I have yet to find a copy of Peck in my wanderings - I will one day, but no joy yet.

I pumped his name into google just now and guess who's website was the number 1 result ?

http://www.argentumandcoins.co.uk/english-copper-tin-and-bronze-coins-in-the-british-museum-c-w-peck-1401-p.asp

Must be doing something right...

I must get myself a Peck as soon as I can afford one. There are just two available on Amazon, both later editions than the original offered by argentum, and both more expensive.

There's one in a little corner bookshop. The shopkeeper has no idea what it is and has marked it up for a fiver, although secretly he'd accept £3 for it.

When I find it, I'll offer him £4....

I've managed Dalton & Hamer and Freeman, but so far Peck has eluded me, the rascal.....

[£400 for a Penny ?]

Dunno. I have yet to find a copy of Peck in my wanderings - I will one day, but no joy yet.

I pumped his name into google just now and guess who's website was the number 1 result ?

http://www.argentumandcoins.co.uk/english-copper-tin-and-bronze-coins-in-the-british-museum-c-w-peck-1401-p.asp

Must be doing something right...

I must get myself a Peck as soon as I can afford one. There are just two available on Amazon, both later editions than the original offered by argentum, and both more expensive.

There's one in a little corner bookshop. The shopkeeper has no idea what it is and has marked it up for a fiver, although secretly he'd accept £3 for it.

When I find it, I'll offer him £4....

I've managed Dalton & Hamer and Freeman, but so far Peck has eluded me, the rascal.....

[Peckris]

Dunno. I have yet to find a copy of Peck in my wanderings - I will one day, but no joy yet.

I pumped his name into google just now and guess who's website was the number 1 result ?

http://www.argentumandcoins.co.uk/english-copper-tin-and-bronze-coins-in-the-british-museum-c-w-peck-1401-p.asp

Must be doing something right...

I must get myself a Peck as soon as I can afford one. There are just two available on Amazon, both later editions than the original offered by argentum, and both more expensive.

There's one in a little corner bookshop. The shopkeeper has no idea what it is and has marked it up for a fiver, although secretly he'd accept £3 for it.

When I find it, I'll offer him £4....

I've managed Dalton & Hamer and Freeman, but so far Peck has eluded me, the rascal.....

As a schoolboy I ordered a copy of Peck from the local bookshop for the princely sum of £5/17/9 - but I got cold feet, cancelled, and spent the money on rock albums instead.

Roll on 30 years, one is in an auction at Taunton. Costs me around £95 to buy. Funnily enough, that £95 didn't make me wince as much as the £5/17/9 made my younger self wince.

[£400 for a Penny ?]

Yeah, a decent numismatic library is as much an investment as the coins themselves.

Provided Spink don't embark on a re-printing spree......

[Rob]

Yeah, a decent numismatic library is as much an investment as the coins themselves.

Provided Spink don't embark on a re-printing spree......

A decent library will always pay dividends. You can never have too many books.

[Red Riley]

As a schoolboy I ordered a copy of Peck from the local bookshop for the princely sum of £5/17/9 - but I got cold feet, cancelled, and spent the money on rock albums instead.

Roll on 30 years, one is in an auction at Taunton. Costs me around £95 to buy. Funnily enough, that £95 didn't make me wince as much as the £5/17/9 made my younger self wince.

I'm very impressed that you remember it was precisely £5/17/9d. Can you tell me what albums you sacrificed it for and how much they cost?

[Peckris]

As a schoolboy I ordered a copy of Peck from the local bookshop for the princely sum of £5/17/9 - but I got cold feet, cancelled, and spent the money on rock albums instead.

Roll on 30 years, one is in an auction at Taunton. Costs me around £95 to buy. Funnily enough, that £95 didn't make me wince as much as the £5/17/9 made my younger self wince.

I'm very impressed that you remember it was precisely £5/17/9d. Can you tell me what albums you sacrificed it for and how much they cost?

I remember that one of them (which I still own) was the mono first pressing of Cream's Disraeli Gears. Not only a brilliant classic album, but in itself now worth somewhere around £60 - £70 ! Swings and roundabouts, hey...

P.S. I seem to remember that albums back then cost 32/6 - one down in memory, two to go

Edited October 12, 2010 by Peckris

[DaveG38]

As a schoolboy I ordered a copy of Peck from the local bookshop for the princely sum of £5/17/9 - but I got cold feet, cancelled, and spent the money on rock albums instead.

Roll on 30 years, one is in an auction at Taunton. Costs me around £95 to buy. Funnily enough, that £95 didn't make me wince as much as the £5/17/9 made my younger self wince.

I'm very impressed that you remember it was precisely £5/17/9d. Can you tell me what albums you sacrificed it for and how much they cost?

I remember that one of them (which I still own) was the mono first pressing of Cream's Disraeli Gears. Not only a brilliant classic album, but in itself now worth somewhere around £60 - £70 ! Swings and roundabouts, hey...

P.S. I seem to remember that albums back then cost 32/6 - one down in memory, two to go

32/6? You extravagant youngster. 19/11 in my day!!!

PS: I've still got Disraeli Gears, but I think mine is the stereo version.

[Peter]

My wife knew I was looking for a copy of Peck so she phoned Colin Cooke who put her onto Spink.

They had 2 copies so she ordered the cheapest but then changed her mind and got the better one.

I got home from work and she presented me with this bulky parcel.....This is one of the many reasons why she is still ;the current Mrs Peter.

It would be nice for it to be updated....I know Colin was working on a farthing encyclopedia....It would however send the copper bronze market into orbit(the 1d market already is)

When I look at aboutfarthings website I realise my farthing collection will never be complete.

[£400 for a Penny ?]

Well played, Mrs Peter.

[scott]

ahh yes, i want my farthings prices to go into the strasophere i think it is a great idea, and i possibly have one thats an unlisted type, i emailed about, which is a possible but not certain >.<, if farthings were to get an encyclopendia, where would this put the undevalued 1858 small date and other scarcitys.

there is always halfpennys of course.

[Peckris]

As a schoolboy I ordered a copy of Peck from the local bookshop for the princely sum of £5/17/9 - but I got cold feet, cancelled, and spent the money on rock albums instead.

Roll on 30 years, one is in an auction at Taunton. Costs me around £95 to buy. Funnily enough, that £95 didn't make me wince as much as the £5/17/9 made my younger self wince.

I'm very impressed that you remember it was precisely £5/17/9d. Can you tell me what albums you sacrificed it for and how much they cost?

I remember that one of them (which I still own) was the mono first pressing of Cream's Disraeli Gears. Not only a brilliant classic album, but in itself now worth somewhere around £60 - £70 ! Swings and roundabouts, hey...

P.S. I seem to remember that albums back then cost 32/6 - one down in memory, two to go

32/6? You extravagant youngster. 19/11 in my day!!!

PS: I've still got Disraeli Gears, but I think mine is the stereo version.

If it's the first pressing it's still a respectable £40 or £50 in Mint condition.