2024-09-28
Some of the old customs and traditions are definitely the best!
But somehow, some of them have been debased by ... well, I don't know, perhaps as much or more as our Pound Sterling.
One pound sterling (originally one troy pound of sterling silver) is now worth almost as much as two thirds of a bar of chocolate.
Yet the cheapest 1oz silver bullion coin available from the Royal Mint this morning costs just a few pence more than £28. Given that there are ten troy oz in one troy pound, the original pound of sterling silver should be enough for around 420 bars of chocolate.
The "Trial of the Pyx" may be old-fashioned, but in my book it's high time it was updated and reinstated for modern circumstances ...
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