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Offline FosseWay

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£145m in old £1 coins still missing - and yet another journalistic error
« on: July 28, 2019, 09:08:32 AM »
BBC report on old £1 coins: Old £1 coins: 145 million coins still not returned - BBC News

It goes on to give a potted history of decimal demonetisations, after which it comes out with this gem:

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Pre-decimal coins, such as the florin and the shilling, which were not demonetised until the 1990s, had effectively ceased to circulate long before then.

Really? Can no-one ever fact-check this stuff? Where in this case fact-checking need only involve asking someone born before about 1985?
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Re: £145m in old £1 coins still missing - and yet another journalistic error
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2019, 10:38:11 AM »
I gues that for a journalist, "long ago" means anything that happened before yesterday. ;D

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An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.
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