Russell,

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:01:43 +1200, Russell McMahon wrote:

>...
> Crowns were never standard fare here afair.

They weren't here either (in my lifetime) but they were issued for commemoration, and they were legal tender.  When I was working in a petrol 
station as a student, someone came in and said "can I have 50p of petrol (it was a *long* time ago!) and pay with these?" and held out two Churchill 
Crowns.  "Of course" says I, "they're legal tender" and proceeded to dispense said fuel, pocketed the crowns and put 50p of my own in the till.  It 
would only have complicated the cashing-up procedure if I hadn't - there was no place to record Crowns on the cash sheet!  ;-)  I still have them, 
somewhere...

Cheers,



Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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