Oh, dear.
I have one or two things...

First one is money. I love money. And not just in the way that most other people love money. I love the designs of notes and coins, I know every single person that has ever graced a Bank of England banknote, what they were famous for, when they were on the note, and in some (most) cases, I know their years of birth and death. I have a deep knowledge of all the security features on all British banknotes. I also keep all my banknotes in my wallet the same way, so that when I open my wallet, the Queen's face is facing me, and is upright. Notes go in order. This is very annoying at cash machines, when I get a load of notes spat at me, facing all directions, and I actually have to stand and make them all face the right way before they go into my wallet. One day, I'll get mugged, no doubt.

Coins, too. You know that pound coins have different images on the back? Sometimes it's a dragon, sometimes it's the Queen's crest, sometimes it's a Thistle inside a crown. And also the outer edge says things, too: Decus et Tutamen (Latin for "A decoration and a safeguard") for English-themed backs, Nemo me Impune Lacessit (Latin for "No-one provokes me with impunity") on Scottish-themed ones, and Pleidiol Wyf I'm Gwlad (Welsh for "True am I to my country", taken from the Welsh anthem) on Welsh-themed ones. I once rejected a pound coin at work, and then tried to explain to the moro customer that I couldn't take it, because the obverse featured a Welsh dragon, but the outer edge was inscribed with a Scottish motif, thereby confirming that the coin was fake, and had been made by someone who knows less about coins than I do.

Other than that, it's all pretty basic things. I'm a big Eurovision nerd, and a big Legend of Zelda one, too.
( Thinker, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 20:12, 3 replies)

If you get any
that are far too tatty for your tastes, I'd take them off your hands. Its a sacrifice, but I'd force myself....
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Thu 6 Mar 2008, 20:17, closed)

I don't know anything about the coins and notes themselves
but I certainly order them like yourself. I also like to get rid of the old and tattered ones first, keeping the crisp new ones to spend later.
( Ghostwriter can't pick up his pencil, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 20:52, closed)

I've heard
that at the Royal Mint they have a way of detecting whether you have money on you, told to me by a van driver who said he wandered in through the wrong entrance with £5 in his pocket and set of a load of alarms.

Is this true?
(Bearded Whumpus In chav Britain, schoolgirl offers sweets to YOU!, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:37, closed)