"Ian Malcolm" wrote in message
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snip... NB 'Defacing the coinage of the realm' was an offence over here
under an
act of 1861, no-one seems to know if its been repealed, and as I dont want
to be transported to Australia, I dont know how the 2Ps ended up with
holes in them, Honest Guv ;-) *(The Queen's head and the portcullis on
the obverse were carefully sanded off before they were drilled*, no point
in inviting trouble.)

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Sanding off the Queens head??? Isn't that still a 'flogging offence' in
jolly England?