On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 17:30 +0100, Elliott Hird wrote: > I believe merely forging banknotes is illegal in the UK. I'm pretty > sure defacing coins is.
Some of those laws are sensible (such as anti-counterfeit); others are holdovers from ages ago that nobody could be bothered to repeal. (There's an often-repeated rumour that putting a stamp on an envelope upside-down is punishable by death because it's technically treason, but I'm not sure whether it's true or just an urban legend.) -- ais523
