Hey mauld!

Sadly Terenz is right. The 1 and 2 shilling coins were interchangable with 5 and 10 pence coins until the Royal Mint/Bank of England issue the newer coins about 5 or six years ago.

The original idea was that eventualy the larger the coin, the greter it's face value. Of cousre we have to wait until they decide what to do with the 1 and 2 pence coins. At the size of the new 5p, the 1p will have to be about the size of a grain of sand!

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Mark
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Dr Martin Luther King Jr



[This message has been edited by MarkB (edited 01-04-2000).]