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PTsideshow:
I collect tokens general modern type mostly. Arcade, transit etc.  I swapped roll of pennies from tokens and medals he had The first two went well and he was more than happy as I sent copper cents and wheat backs. I was happy with the two boxes of tokens that came.
The final box contained Coinage from GB  and a couple of Conder tokens  and Jetons from the 1700's and 1800's Since I don't collect US coins other than to spend :lol:
Here is what was in the box.


From what I can tell this is a real coin.










It is in fair condition and not worth as much as most people think under $4.00 USD
I will have to check on the silver content and what those are going for in the collectors market. Since I believe they all have been demonetized Since you no longer the shilling and pence.
I thought some my find it interesting what finds its way across the pond.

mexican jon:
The first coin is still legal tender in the UK  :scratch: And as it states on the coin it is worth £5 or about $7:63 at todays exchange rate  :clap: the rest have been replaced with modern replacements the  two shilling being replaced by the 10 pence piece, the six pence and the three piece were never replaced with a like for like coin but due to the UK going over to decimal we ended up with the 1 pence and 2 pence piece we did have a 1/2 pence piece but they scraped that a few years ago  :thumbup:

awemawson:
The threpenny bit coins were still in circulation when I was a youth. I still have at least two possibly three bank bags of uncirculated ones I  took out of the bank a few weeks before they were withdrawn.

NormanV:
I remember spending farthings, but I didn't keep any.

AdeV:
Traditionally, a few sixpences would be stirred into the Christmas pudding every year. The lucky winners getting, well, sixpence - or, in our household, getting to give them back so they could go in next year's pud....

Not sure if they had to be silver sixpences or whether cupronickel ones sufficed.

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