Five pee (5p) pieces are very ickle. They like to collect in the darkened corners of your wallets/purses, and when the time comes to use up your shrapnel, they remain tucked away to haunt you another time. 5p   pieces were made for small children to play with and/or choke on, and to make people with fat fingers feel even worse about their deformity. A question that has plagued me for years, but will probably be easily answered by anyone else, is: Why did a BIG piece of silver used to be worth five pee, but now only an ickle bit is needed? CW

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