Klarinet Archive - Posting 000101.txt from 2004/03

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd: [SMB] Dont Amend Protest
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:51:07 -0500

In message <e4117c894c.tony.p@-----.org>
Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org> wrote:

> So, why was a pound coin called a maggie?
>
> Well, it was called a maggie because 'it thought it was a sovereign'.

I now realise that this is probably incomprehensible to many non-Brits, so I
should tell you that in the days when a pound was worth something (I know
it's worth $1.84 dollars now, which isn't bad, but that's another thing;-) it
took the form of a beautiful gold coin, called -- a sovereign. (I own one,
given me fifty years ago by my grandfather.)

And of course, the word 'sovereign' also means, to us, our King or Queen.

Tony
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