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Weren't there silver threepenny bits - before the ones you mention - too? (pronounced "throopenny" or "thrupney" - regionally variant - for young uns or foreigners). |
Ah, yes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/beyond/.... I've got several somewhere... |
A better one: http://www.swanseamass.org/wales/... Yeah, yeah, I know your point was about farthings... |
When did the hapenny go out of circulation? Was it with decimalisation? I'm sure I remember them being about when I was very small, but I don't remember shops advertising prices in halves. I've got a victorian silver sixpence on a necklace somewhere.. I also like the way the prices were written, all £/s/d. In the first pub I worked at, we had to write a pound in a column when we were given drinks as tips, and had to write them as £1/- |
The sixpence lasted much longer than the other pre-decimalisation coins - didn't they go out of circulation around 1976? |
After decimalisation you could get just over 50 halfpennies in a tic-tac box. I saved them as on their own they were worthless and amassed over £5 but never got around to cashing them in. Surely they will never be worth something!?! |
Beechams Pills. Worth a guinea a box. Certainly in my brief lifetime. |
Being pedantic but the goldcrest is the smallest UK bird, the wren is probably the smallest breeding bird in the UK. |
Sorry, there are so many Wrens in this week's posts that I may have got carried away there. |
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