Happy birthday.

• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  21 April 2013     10:23226308
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  happy birthday to the pound coin,30 years old today.the coin supposed to last 40 years,fingers crossed.
• Guest 698

  • Registered: 28 May 2010
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  21 April 2013     10:25226309
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  Interesting to see what it would have bought 30 years ago.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 23,940
  21 April 2013     10:27226310
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  a pint of beer [67p] with change given.
• Keith Sansum1

  • Location: london
  • Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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  21 April 2013     13:13226323
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  my father in law brought his house for £100!!!!! now look at house prices!!
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• Guest 716

  • Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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  21 April 2013     18:10226363
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  After 30 years it`s still called a ``Thatcher``...............thick,brassy and thinks it`s a sovereign.........
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  21 April 2013     18:25226365
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  not heard that one before reg, caused me to chortle.
• Guest 653

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  21 April 2013     18:32226368
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  By whom is it called that Reg ? I've never heard that before. I could imagine it might have been said about Cherie Blair.
  
  
  
  Roger
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  21 April 2013     19:42226379
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  both cut from the same cloth, cold as ice with delusions of grandeur.
• Guest 716

  • Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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  21 April 2013     20:02226384
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  # 7.......The Thatcher `coin` was born when she announced to the World``s Press
  
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