Chris Perkins

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.

I have a coin from Lauenburg. I saw a real German price on TV recently, he worked on the Dodgems at a fairground.

No, you have to choose the actual jpg file.

Yes, all mintage figures should be taken with a pinch of salt, and should be used just as a rough idea.

Didn't work for me.

Thanks Penny Master, see you monday. Don't take that Oli too seriously, he's just a snob

With the 'File attachment' option at the bottom of the posting window when you post something. You have to browse for the picture on your local hard drive.

That didn't work. You can't link to your password protected webmail account! It'll only work for you, when you're logged in.

Well you came back and followed it up, so that proves you were not merely advertising. What that auction site needs to do, is somehow persuade lots of dealers to auction things on it continuously and at the same time spend lots of money on promotion to get the audience there. When ebay was just starting out, there was no ebay to compete with it. Now ebay already exists with it's massive audience and amount of lots it's practically impossible for any newcomers. Auction sites that start themselves now, need a lot of money or to be tied to an existing brand. If I were to start up an aution site I'd find a few thousand things to auction first and spend as much money as I could on promotion.