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I wouldn't have thought that changes in currency from the portraits of Elizabeth to Charles, would have been a huge deal. While I do understand the costs involved in engraving the dies and plates, it was a little amazing to me that the British government had to issue a statement that Bank of England notes with the Queen's image on them would remain legal tender. The United States makes frequent changes to its currency, at least on the reverse sides, but coinage and currencies issued by the United States Mint and the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing are considered legal tender in the US, regardless of when they were issued.
I could theoretically take a $20 gold piece (which stopped being issued after 1933) and buy a game from Gamestop's discount bargain bin, and it would be perfectly legal. It would be very, very stupid for me to buy a bargain bin copy of Horizon: Zero Dawn using a coin containing just short of a troy ounce of gold, and no doubt the manager would be reluctant to accept it as tender (unless he were savvy to coins and kept his mouth shut), but it would be perfectly legal to do so. I could also theoretically pay using a half dime (a 90% silver 5-cent piece that was replaced by the nickel in 1873).
As to the rest of it, did you remember much about meeting Her Highness? The highest-ranked public official I ever met in my life was our Representative in Congress at the time when I was 10, when my dad was meeting with him for assistance in getting a disability rating from the VA from a career-ending injury he received during annual military training.
Last edited by SanAndreasX - on 09 September 2022
