On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Trei, Peter wrote:
> I was living in Britain (and of an allowance-recieving age) when
> decimalization
> occured. While we lost the big penny, we gained the 50p piece. In those
> days,
> it was a large, heavy, seven-sided coin, bigger than a US half-dollar, and
> worth
> $1.20. It felt good in your pocket. Since then, the Brits have shrunk it to
> a
> much smaller size. Do they still call the 1 pound coins 'maggies'?
I have been living in the UK for 17 years and have never heard this term.
Younger people aren't sure who Maggie is anyway ;-)
(15-year old daughter sitting next to me:
"Who's Maggie?"
and then
"Why would a pound be called Margaret Thatcher?"
)
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