I was given £8.81 in coins the other day in the bakers as change for a tenner and I could clearly see fivers in the till.I think they must hold them back for whingers who don't like £1 nuggets.
A bigger gripe of mine is 2p coins.
Huge great heavy worthless things they are.
What is the point of them?
did u know that coins before 1992 are actually currently worth about 3p at a scrap yard due to the 97% copper in them
Nah - they'd round the price up to the nearest pound.
The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge loads is phenomenal. An ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.
Nah - they'd round the price up to the nearest pound.
It could actually work either way.
This happened in Australia when they abolished the 1c and 2c coins.
Individual items are still priced at 99c etc but the rounding occurs on the total bill and rounded to the nearest 5c.
For example:
Items that are 96 or 97c are rounded down to 95c
98c and 99c are rounded up to the dollar
Why is it when I come home from the pub the crotch of my trousers is always somewhere down round my knees with the weight of loose change ... I once counted it the next morning and had over £60 of coins in my pocket.
I say do away with ALL coins/notes and simply use credit/debit cards .. curreny is outdated
Ivan
Don't waste time on other peoples first world problems
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Scottish banknotes are NOT legal tender in England and Wales.
So say these people and they should know:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/about/faqs.htm
Yeah but they are still perfectly acceptable - see http://www.siliconglen.com/Scotland/1_7.html
Be that as it may be but they are not legal tender.
did u know that coins before 1992 are actually currently worth about 3p at a scrap yard due to the 97% copper in them
Will
It could actually work either way.
This happened in Australia when they abolished the 1c and 2c coins.
Individual items are still priced at 99c etc but the rounding occurs on the total bill and rounded to the nearest 5c.
For example:
Items that are 96 or 97c are rounded down to 95c
98c and 99c are rounded up to the dollar
I say do away with ALL coins/notes and simply use credit/debit cards .. curreny is outdated
Ivan
Hated with a vengence counting them each week and they were always tatty!
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