New British Coins.

[scottishmoney]

Historical Exchange Rates

Back in the ca. mid 1980's I remember the £ sliding to about $1.03 or so.  Deep in the heart of the Thatcher era.

[longnine009]

I suspect it's a plot to get the British public so fed up and disillusioned with the pound that the euro starts to look good... 

Maybe  the 7 coins are symbolic message. All the pieces as pieces are marginalized until they become the whole. Next they'll be the "discovery set"  where each piece has a hidden word in it and when you lay them out in a line it reads:

Have   You    Hugged   Your  European  Union Today?   

That would be quite a marketing idea wouldn't it?  They could even put other messages in  7 coin "discovery sets" to capitalize on peoples' supposed paranoia. People would have to collect thousands of coins to get all the messages.

Have     you     hugged   the    spy   camera today?


You    should    you     sure  paid   enough  for it

[Twoshadows]

I sure would like to see that time again so I wouldn't feel so darn ripped off everytime I buy something from England. Seems to me I have always paid almost double for everything compared to the rest of the world!

[scottishmoney]

Notice that Scotland was relegated to the lowly coins, surely demonstrative of their position whilst remaining a part of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha realm.  I had hoped by now that mine brethren in the northern domains of Great Britain shall have thrown off the yoke of Anglish humiliation, perhaps this will be one more spur to the arses of freedom and self determination.

I better not say too much, or the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's will not let me in a couple of months hence, whence I shall raid Carlisle from the north of Hadrian's public works experiment.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Historical Exchange Rates

Back in the ca. mid 1980's I remember the £ sliding to about $1.03 or so.  Deep in the heart of the Thatcher era.

In the late nineties a la 2000 it has been one on one for some time too

I was in Florida at the time of the first shuttle launch and the dollar had dropped from 50 francs to 27 at the time so I
had a lot of fun those three weeks in Florida