Russell,

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:14:23 +1200, Russell McMahon wrote:

> > 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...
> 
> I wonder where he (presumably) stole them from? :-)

"She"!  And they were issued as commemorative coins, it's just really unusual to see them in circulation because they tend to be worth more than 
their face value.  Like sovereigns - their face value is GBP1, but quite apart from any numismatic value, they contain about half an ounce of gold!

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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