Tgsh2005

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Legal Tender

Hi. D you have a citation for your recent edits to Pound sterling#Legal tender and regional issues? I'm assuming the Sovereign and Half-Sov mentioned are the 8g and 4g gold coins allowed for by the 1971 Coinage Act, but I'm not sure what the "Britannia" coins are - were they allowed by Proclamation? Shimgray 14:57, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ah, they're other gold coins. Interesting; the Royal Mint circulation figures don't mention them, just sovs and half-sovs. I've a query into them about Royal Proclamation authorising coins; will see if these are covered, since not all Mint coins are legal tender. Just rewriting that section of the article now to clarify the difference between "legal tender" inside and outside England/Wales, so I'll leave that vague pending clarification. Shimgray 20:24, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I should have thought to look in Whitakers! On examination, they simply state "Gold, dated 1838 onwards, if not below least current weight" as legal tender. They do note the Britannias as having values from £10 to £100, though, which matches; they also mention £5 and £2 gold coins - no weight given - in addition to the sovereigns and Britannias. Hmm.

They also mention a range of silver coins (£2, £1, 50p and 20p), but no mention in the legal-tender section if these are covered or not. I suspect they are by proclamation, but we shall see. It's all ver confusing, certainly...

As regards accepting them - there's an infamous (and possibly apocryphal) tax dodge from a few years back, where a company paid its employees utterly trivial amounts, a few pounds, but in gold coins at face value. They immediately sold these back to a dealer at bullion value, yet officially had been paid hardly anything, so escaped income tax... Shimgray 22:14, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The Right Honourable

I've just reverted your edit to Tony Blair. You're right that he is normally referred to as 'The Right Honourable' but Wikipedia style (as now put into the Manual of Style) is not to use them in the article leads. They can be used, as in the Tony Blair article, in a separate section explaining how the subject is referred to. (There are some of us, myself included, that don't agree with this policy, but we have yet to win the argument). David | Talk 20:57, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Scottish Executive

The body known by this name continues, but is no longer called such. --MacRusgail (talk) 14:34, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

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