[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Certainly I'm told that the Bank of England's "I promise to > > pay the bearer on demand the sum of £10" is good forever. > > Indeed so. Though, if you were to take it to the BoE they'd no > longer give you a chunk of gold; you'd just get a new £10 note.
Not "chunk of silver"? I thought "pounds sterling" were based on a silver standard? Cheers, Philip, who carefully avoided the temptation to write s/gold/silver/ due to a recent posting -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
