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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 65069, member: 57463"]Play the man, Mr. Ridley... Not that it could not have Catholic holidays on it, but it probably has Anglican -- Church of England; what we in America call "Episcoplean" -- holidays.  For one thing, they will be mostly the same (except for the King and Queen's birthday) because the Church of England is an apostolic church that split off from Rome, but kept its "catholicism."  This is different from evangelical churches, the Reformed, Calvinist, Presbyterian, Baptist, etc., etc. Catholics did not have the right vote in Great Britain until 1829.  From 1793 they could vote in Ireland -- but not hold office.  That's right: vote, but not hold office. (In fact, I am reading a biography of President John Kennedy now, written by Theodore Sorenson.  I cannot describe briefly the breadth, width and depth, of anti-Catholic hysteria when Kennedy ran for office in 1960: it was right out of the Jim Crow days of the Ku Klux Klan.  ... and that was 1960...) Sorry for being off track here, but coins are history you hold in your hand and the history you hold is from a time too close that we have forgotten.[/QUOTE]