In a precedented act of total confusion, Gordon Brown today made the Shareholder Executive of the Royal Mint his Chancellor of the Exchequer, after the Shareholder showed such an immense understanding of the financial makets today.
Following a cock-up on the printing front, 150,000 20p pieces were released into circulation without a date imprinted upon them and in a staggering piece of free market enterprise, the London Mint offered £50 per 20p piece, showing an unnerving head for figures that Alistair Darling was simply no match for.
However, questions are already being raised in the House, such as: "What kind of moron would pay fifty quid for twenty pence?" and "Who's in charge of the calculator in that place?
Numismatists shuffled their feet and look embarrassed, admitting that the coins had been exchanging hands for up to six times higher since last year, although this still paled into insignificance against the 2p pieces saying "new pence" instead of "two pence" changing hands for £200 each, whilst the valueless half-pence piece is now going a £500 a pop - just because "they don't make 'em like that anymore."
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What? They make coins out of 'mint'?
Well in honour of this story, although I won't be using any overused expression, to coin a phrase, allow me to mention what the Canadian one dollar coin is affectionately called because of the loon on it. Well it's called a 'loonie', which kinda' makes me think of someone who would pay fifty quid for twenty pence.
Yep, that's probably the first word I thought of when I found out about the 20ps!
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