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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1061699, member: 39"]Umm, this is the Daily Mail. What do you expect, accuracy? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But those were collector coins, not circulation pieces. Also, they are different from the British 20p and 50p coins - look at the shape. The shape of such a UK piece is a "curve of constant width" (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_of_constant_width" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_of_constant_width" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_of_constant_width</a> and scroll down to "Examples") which is important for vending machines for example.</p><p><br /></p><p>But since the euro coins inherited the "Spanish Flower" shape for the 20 cent coins from the Spanish 50 pesetas pieces, I have that nagging feeling that izotz's comment regarding "odd" shapes was not all too serious ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1061699, member: 39"]Umm, this is the Daily Mail. What do you expect, accuracy? :D [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI[/url] But those were collector coins, not circulation pieces. Also, they are different from the British 20p and 50p coins - look at the shape. The shape of such a UK piece is a "curve of constant width" (see [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_of_constant_width[/url] and scroll down to "Examples") which is important for vending machines for example. But since the euro coins inherited the "Spanish Flower" shape for the 20 cent coins from the Spanish 50 pesetas pieces, I have that nagging feeling that izotz's comment regarding "odd" shapes was not all too serious ... Christian[/QUOTE]
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