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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 988395, member: 57463&quot;]Well, yes, and I said that it was my rant.&nbsp; I apologize for being harsh.&nbsp; I look up US laws all the time, but I would be lost trying to find the reliable and easy sites for the UK.&nbsp; I cited the law as posted on the Cornell University site.&nbsp; It is well-known; but not every dot.edu is reliable and for the dot.ac.uk sites, except for Oxford, Cambride, LSE, and maybe another, I would not know a real establishment from one those newly transformed trade school universities.&nbsp; So, again, I understand and I apologize.</p><p><br /></p><p>And you are right: the Roman sestertius is not the lawful obligation of an existing entity.&nbsp; Current bus tokens from Budapest are covered; ancient coins are not.&nbsp; The USA is peculiar in that, as noted, the 1965 Coinage Act made all the moneys of the USA -- with some few exceptions, such as Gold Notes -- legal tender.&nbsp; On the other hand, in Canada, when the banks wanted to trade in Loonies for Twonies, the Royal Canadian Mint said, &quot;Sorry.&quot;&nbsp; Coins are not legal tender in Canada.&nbsp; Oddly enough, though, in Greece, before the euro, as products of the government, coins were legal tender, but banknotes, as the obligations of a private corporation, were mere convenieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Be all that as it may, again, I tug my forelock.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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