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Originally Posted by Russ D
You can be jailed for scraping a bit of metal remember.....or rather, defacing the Queen's image on a coin. I don't see the two 'offences' being all that different.
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Or burning bank notes. It's known as 'defacing the coin of the realm' -
http://www.pomian.demon.co.uk/weights.htm also see
http://www.gold.org/value/reserve_as...1870feb10.html point 7.
So our coinage is protected by law, but the flag isn't.
But anyone thinking that flag is 'just a piece of cloth' might have a look here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/775016.stm to see just how much ire can be created over 'just a flag' - and not even national ones!