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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2043429, member: 71234&quot;]<i>The &#039;flat hair&#039; is due to a weak strike.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>When the Republic of Ireland was granted independence, one of the conditions of the treaty was that the leprechauns who had traditionally been employed to check all the Royal Mint output for errors and poor work, using their magic powers, should still remain in employment at the Mint. Later, as a concession to their travel time the Royal Mint was moved from London to Wales to shorten the commute.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore we British all know that any even minutely defective coin is not from the Royal Mint but is either a foreign forgery or even the Work of the Devil. The only thing to do with any you find is to drop it into the nearest font of Holy Water. If it hisses, bubbles and vanishes, it was indeed the work of the Devil, if not they are simply forgeries and the Vicar will collect them up annually and nail them to a beam.</p><p><br /></p><p>These practices have prevented the circulation of any but perfect coins in Britain, and so there is no interest at all in defective ones, whatever people in foreign lands may do with their lower grade output.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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