off topic-uk money?

[Martyn White]

>        I, personally, mourn the loss of the ha'penny (=.5p) which got
>phased out about a decade ago .... ;)  Plus, sometime in the last 10 years
>the Enlish have changed the size of their 5p coin, which I discovered when
>I showed up with the _wrong_size_ 5p piece (perish the thought)!
        This never ceases to piss me off.  Unlike the US where the
currency hasn't changed in a hundred years, it seems that the UK
changes it every year so that every time I visit I have coins
from my previous visit that are no longer legal tender e.g. the 5 and 10p

Martyn