The message below went out with US ASCII (7-bit) encoding, even though my
default setting is for Western European (ISO).
Where you see ?1, it should have shown as �1.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Bill Potts
> Sent: June 09, 2001 14:03
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:13615] Re:
> http://election.independent.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=76500
>
>
> Louis Jourdan wrote:
> > If they refuse to accept coins that don't have their national symbol
> > on it, too bad to them ! They will simply not get their money....
>
> The British are already used to a variety of ?1 coins -- English,
> Scottish,
> Welsh and, I believe, Ulster (Northern Irish).
>
> This is not analogous, by the way, to the English and Scottish banknote
> situation, where British banknotes are issued by the Bank of
> England (which
> is the equivalent, in that respect, of the U.S. Treasury) and Scottish
> banknotes are issued by individual banks. (I have several from my
> third last
> trip to Britain, in May 2000.) Many of the Scottish banks still
> issue pound
> notes, whereas the Bank of England issues only coins for the ?1
> denomination.
>
> The U.S. does, of course, have an analogy to the British pound
> coin, namely
> the current series of commemorative quarters, with a different
> one for every
> state (although the complete set of 50 is being issued over a period of
> several years).
>
> Bill Potts, CMS
> Roseville, CA
> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
>
