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Re: New Web Page
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 31 May 1999 17:48:33 GMT
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On Mon, 24 May 1999 23:09:02 GMT, Mr L F Braun uttered the following
profundities...
Snipped for brevity......
Pound coins do make life easier!
Except for posting money, one couldn't send off a pound note
to a charity, one only had a fiver! They suffered for a while
as a result.
In a coin's favour:
The smallest denomination notes wear out phenomenally quickly.
Associated costs are the need to print large amounts, frequently.
A coin lasts a long, long time. Living in the US up to 1987,
can remember receiving the occassional '30's nickel, '40's
penny. Before the coinage changed to a smaller, more easily
manageable size, would frequently pocket in change coins from
the 1940's and 1950's.
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| (...) The big failing was the thickness. Had it been twice as thick, there probably wouldn't have been such a lousy response to it. It really was way too quarterlike (the infamous "Carter Quarter," which you can still get in large numbers from (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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