OT; 5p coins?

[Weatherlawyer]

I gather it took the Bank of England several decades to replace the fiver after they realised the Germans forged them nearly perfectly.

I don't know how that would have affected things.

[Tim+]

Brian-Gaff

Those are probably the forgeries. You're probably more sensitive to coin weight than the rest of us. The only one I've knowingly had was made of plated lead.

Tim

[Tim Watts]

That thing that was printed in black and white on one side of the paper only? Someone in the BoE should have been slapped for even proposing that design!