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On 09/29/2018 03:46 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

We have 1,2,5,10,20,50,100,200 pence coins. They're
all
equally
used.
Why use two 25 cent coins when you can use a 50?

No idea. Almost all the coin trays have 5 buckets but
the
fifth
is
most
often used to hold paper clips, rubber bands, or other
small
items.

One explanation is the half dollar was the last of the
coins
to
contain
silver and when the silver prices went up they were
hoarded
and
fell
out
of circulation. By the time the composite coins came
out
people
had
gotten away from using them.

Chicken or egg, but most vending machines and the pay
phones
didn't
take
them.

The US did have 2 and 3 cent pieces in the 1800's.
There
was
the
naive
thought that a coin's bullion value should match its
face
value
so
there
was some jockeying around. The nickel won the
popularity
contest.

The 20 cent piece didn't last long either. That was a
political
move
by
the silver miners to have the government buy more
silver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech

The US has solved that problem. None of the coinage has
real
worth
although you can make sort of a low grade zamak out of
pennies.
Illegally, of course.

Why do you have such complicated terms for your coins?
Ours
are
just
called by their value - 20p, 50p, etc.

Pity about the sovereign, crown, half crown, groat,
shilling,
sixpence,
quid
etc.

None of those are used anymore apart form "quid" which is
simply
a
synonym
for "pound".

There are still slang terms for your decimal coins and
notes.

Which aren't used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slang_...United_Kingdom

The only slang term in use for a denomination is "quid".

Wrong, as always.

Which words do you believe we use commonly?

You didn't say commonly. You said arent used.

As in I hear them less often than once a year.

Then you need to get out more.

No, I just live in a civilised area without silly regional accents.

In scotland ? Yeah, right.

You get strong accents in cities like Glasgow and Edinburgh, and also
in
the middle of nowhere like the Highlands, but not in the middle.

Wrong with that last

You only get strong accents where people have low intelligence.

BULL****. And you didn't say STRONG originally,
you pathetic excuse for a bull**** artist.

Strong accent is equal to silly regional.

Wrong, as always.

What other kind of strong accent could someone have?

Farming communities, and cities full of council estates.

And people like Adam whose a lot smarter than you.

Adam the electrician from uk.d-i-y?

Yep.

He lives in a council estate.

You live in a slum.

I live in a private house.

and you're shifting the goalposts, again, with your strong.

I'm not,

Corse you are when you never mentions strong until your
nose was rubbed in the stupidity of your original claim.

Already covered above,

Wrong, as always.

stop making the same point twice.

Go and **** yourself, again.

Stop cutting and pasting.

the silly regional accents and the daft terminology occur in the same
sort
of places.

Wrong, as always.

Properly educated people use normal words and speak clearly.

Wrong, as always. Adam doesn't and his education is much better than yours.

He's a labourer.