Chris Perkins

I walked past Manchester Piccadily once looking for somewhere that sold flowers to give to that attractive Mancunian girl I once mentioned I even ventured inside at about 7.30pm!

Jim, I don't have a banner for the forum, i've never promoted the forum on its own, I found it grew pretty well without too much effort. I do have a banner for the website in general though, I'll attach it below. You could take that and point it to the main URL or I'm sure I could adapt it if you'd rather link directly to the forum? Actually that one is out of date already, because at one stage I was considering doing something with world coins, but have found that British ones alone keep me very busy. Thanks,

Yes I've seen those, they're quite awful too aren't they.

I have no idea, perhaps he's a chiropodist.

I know Footandankle very well. He's a Dr in the Lake district. Good customer of mine for both coins and accessories.

You'll have to join and let us see a scan really. The wrong legend could be where it's worn away, that may also account for the appearance of the head and Britannia. Forgeries are very common, so it's quite likely, but I cannot be sure without a picture.

What so it's like absolutey free is it, and you don't make any profit!? So a bit like here, but mostly about American coins, instead of British? I'll pop by to add to your leading numismatists.

That reminds me: I bought a collection once and included with it were 3 of the original 1903-04 Murdoch collection Spink auction catalogues. All are fully illustrated, but most interestingly, in one or two of them, they have the buyers names and prices hand written in ink, in the margin next to the lots. So perhaps it was even the auctioneers copy! And there are some famous names written there too. I still have them, and only wish I could time travel to 1903 with £1000.

If you were half Iraqi and half British Oli and had relatives in GB and Iraq, I think the lawlessness and general unrest in Iraq would probably be of greater importance to you to the asylum problems in Blighty. Asylum: It does seem from what I have read that the government seemed to be massaging the figures a bit. Although I'm sure from Germany I probably don't know the full story. But that's what govenments do all day long, they massage figures. Whatever government you have in power, will massage figures one way or t'other (listen to me getting all Northern). Lets hope they work things out, and I hope your Mr Howard asks all the right questions and puts on all the right pressures, that's what he's there for. Iraq: I think the Japanese troops are just medical and support types aren't they? No front line armed forces as such? They probably won't do anything, because governments generally never do what terrorists tell them too. I expect there will be the usual SAS style rescue attempt that will either work, or not, and then things will carry on like they were before.

Neil

Yes, but if it had been so, it would have been a good honest British made stool, hand worked from a mighty oak by a skilled British craftsman. It would have been such a special stool that the King himself would have gladly swapped is throne for it. Anyway, we'll stop that there, I feel it's getting stupid.

Spot on Oli, although I imagine 10% is somewhere around average.

Good search engine work there Oli (as usual ) I found this page which contains more technical stuff: http://library.thinkquest.org/10170/voca/p...k.htm?tqskip1=1

That's very true. But maybe she was very tall and was actually sitting on a stool?

Max Planck was a leading German Scientist chap who died in 1947, and he has a Scientific institute of study named after him in Leipzig (I believe). The so called 'Max Planck Institut' (Institut is German for Institute before you start!). I think he was a biologist, but I'm not really sure. What I do know for sure is that the coins are very common and were struck over a number of years (right into the 70's). You'll probably find that unless yours is in Mint condition that it will be worth face value....2DM = 1 Euro = 66p

But I haven't replied to it's owner yet, purely because of the stupid first email!

No, just a minute....Pot, kettle to you first, we cannot go on potting and ketling each other, it stops now! (Or I'll simply change everything that I wrote to be spelt properly, and you'll just look stupid)

Erm, well thanks for all the advert links, that's what I like to see! When you're a bit older, you can write articles for the website, how about that. I won't bother correcting the spelling and gramatical errors , you're young, very enthusiastic and I wish you lots of luck.

Atomic and bomb are 2 perfectly valid words on their own, I suppose I would allow 'atomic-bomb' as one word. Churchill Crown and Queen Lizzy II are most certainly not in the dictionary!!

I don't have that book, but it sounds much easier to follow that the attempt to classify the varieties in the 2004 Spink!

Actually it turned out to be a quite nice looking Greek (Roman imperial) silver coin.

Yeah, well done Master J.M.D, but try to use actual words in any new topics you start rather than stupid faces, it makes things much easier to browse through. 'shouldent it' be Shouldn't it? You can't even string 4 words together without mis spelling 25% of them! Pot, Kettle.

(thought we were supposed to being doing one word only)

Space

Yes, I meant prince. DID own a large estate. You don't impress me in the slightest unless it's still in the family, and even if it was you'd still be an ordinary school boy Oli, with ideas above his station! Someone once traced my family tree back to a Frenchman (sorry) who came over with William of Normandy in 1066.