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| DavidA:
I still have a couple of farthings and a three penny bit somewhere. Along with some old pennies. But just where I have no idea. probably in a tin in the shed. Dave. |
| S. Heslop:
I've got a tin of old coins somewhere. I found them in an Asda carpark of all places when I was a kid while it was raining, someone must've spilled them all. But I can't imagine why anyone would've had a bunch of old coins there, and how they could've spilled them and not noticed. I'll probably have a look for them tomorrow. |
| PTsideshow:
Dug out the back edition of world coins. No joy as all all cupro-nickel or the brass alloy. Lots of people on this side of the pond don't think this coinage is really for the UK since it doesn't say it on the coins. Talk about country snobs. :bugeye: |
| tom osselton:
--- Quote from: AdeV on July 25, 2015, 06:38:42 PM ---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. --- End quote --- It was birthday cake for us that contained the coins the only other thing my grandad did was put a silver dollar in the hands of a new addition to the family for luck I still have ours. |
| chipenter:
Before the early 1920 s they were solid silver , and the silver content was reduced utill there was very little after ww2 , we used to have silver treepeny bits in our christmas pud saved just for that . |
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