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Cupid-stunt said:
croyde said:
When the decimal money came in, old people used to drop the half pennies all the time as they were tiny.
As a lad I'd spend the day at Croydon Whitgift Shopping Centre as Allders had a lift and it was amazing to us youngsters
Time to go home and I'd search the pavement and gutter and always find the 4 half pennies that I needed for the bus home. Yep! 2p for the bus.
Aye, those where the days.
My neck of the woods back in the day .... used to walk through there and try the aftershaves... Kouros, Jazz, Obsession ....As a lad I'd spend the day at Croydon Whitgift Shopping Centre as Allders had a lift and it was amazing to us youngsters
Time to go home and I'd search the pavement and gutter and always find the 4 half pennies that I needed for the bus home. Yep! 2p for the bus.
Aye, those where the days.
Had to help my ma on Sat monrings in the market, get the veg and then Beejam at the end of Surrey St Market before getting the 109 back home.
Whitefly Swatter said:
E3134 said:
Just rhyming slang for 2/6.
Bob for shilling is still a mystery
The ‘Bob’Bob for shilling is still a mystery
The ‘Bob’ The term ‘shilling’ might be derived from a Roman coin called a solidus, or the old English term ‘scield’. Eventually, it adopted the nickname ‘bob’, although quite why remains a mystery. There have been attempts to link its name to the famous politician Sir Robert Walpole. However, ‘bob’ also referred to a set of changes rung on church bells, which may provide one possible explanation for the name since the word ‘shilling’ comes from the Germanic word ‘skell’ meaning ‘ring
from The Royal Mint web site
It remains a Toya Wilcox (get it!).
ferret50 said:
I'm old as well, three 6d's used to buy a Matchbox toy!
So it would have taken six 3d to achieve the same purchase.
Dinky Toy cars were a whole different ball game and needed birthday/Christmas presents to buy.
We were poor, and lived in a cardboard box in the gutter, but we were happy....
or fill your pockets...So it would have taken six 3d to achieve the same purchase.
Dinky Toy cars were a whole different ball game and needed birthday/Christmas presents to buy.
We were poor, and lived in a cardboard box in the gutter, but we were happy....
seventy-two Farthings!
sherman said:
speedchick said:
It's an absolute certainty that when we get a p&d machine with a coin jam it's a round pound. Machines won't take them, and I'm getting a hefty collection of them.
Most banks will still accept them as banking. You just need to bank them as whole bags of £20.At the pub I worked at when we got them in tips etccwe would save them up into a bag of 20 and send them offceith the G4S banking.
It never got rejected.
We would swap the 20 coins for notes and put it back in the tips so no one list out
Not as valuable as some old 50p pieces. I sold a 2011 Olympics Footie coin (found alongside coin change in Co-op just before Xmas) for 18 quid on ebay. I list them as 'collection only' (you can't trust any f
ker these days, no way would I post any). I was surprised when the guy turned up to pay for it, he couldn't have been 35 yrs old, on his way to his parents to stay over for Xmas. Best one was a Kew Gardens one, it was in nice nick and got me 150 quid. Today in same condition they can fetch x3 times that!
Cash eh? Nobody uses it. LOL
dandarez said:
You do realise... obviously not, that there are still lots of the old 'round' pound coins that have 'value'. Prior to covid it was estimated that there were around 150 MILLION still in circulation.
Not as valuable as some old 50p pieces. I sold a 2011 Olympics Footie coin (found alongside coin change in Co-op just before Xmas) for 18 quid on ebay. I list them as 'collection only' (you can't trust any fker these days, no way would I post any). I was surprised when the guy turned up to pay for it, he couldn't have been 35 yrs old, on his way to his parents to stay over for Xmas.
Best one was a Kew Gardens one, it was in nice nick and got me 150 quid. Today in same condition they can fetch x3 times that!
Cash eh? Nobody uses it. LOL
Theres a big difference between a bashed up standard issue coin and something worth selling. Not as valuable as some old 50p pieces. I sold a 2011 Olympics Footie coin (found alongside coin change in Co-op just before Xmas) for 18 quid on ebay. I list them as 'collection only' (you can't trust any f
ker these days, no way would I post any). I was surprised when the guy turned up to pay for it, he couldn't have been 35 yrs old, on his way to his parents to stay over for Xmas. Best one was a Kew Gardens one, it was in nice nick and got me 150 quid. Today in same condition they can fetch x3 times that!
Cash eh? Nobody uses it. LOL
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