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Sorry, I seem to be talking about money again!!
Got me thinking as all of my copper change, at the village shop, goes into the Lifeboats box.
Not withstanding that, I still build up a container of 5p, 2p and 1p coins at home.
No way am I going to count 100 pence coins etc so I chuck it in the money cruncher gadget at the supermarket.
Imagine then that the smallest, when I was a nipper, was 1 farthing and there were 960 of them in a pound!!!
Got me thinking as all of my copper change, at the village shop, goes into the Lifeboats box.
Not withstanding that, I still build up a container of 5p, 2p and 1p coins at home.
No way am I going to count 100 pence coins etc so I chuck it in the money cruncher gadget at the supermarket.
Imagine then that the smallest, when I was a nipper, was 1 farthing and there were 960 of them in a pound!!!
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I remember the farthing but I do not think that I used one. The farthing had a jenny wren on one side and I am not sure what was on the obverse.
Halfpennies I have used. |
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The half penny as a kid. Could get you 20 sweets for 10p
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This is really a how old are you thread, just missed out on the farthing so its halfpenny ( 1/2d )for me.
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strangely it was the old half penny i can remember but i have just googled when the farthing ceased to be legal tender was 1960 when i was 10 years old.i can't remember spending a farthing.
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I am one of the youngest people that can remember the half penny coin as a guess. Also remember five pence pieces and ten pence pieces still had 1 shilling or 2 shillings written on them. This was late eighties, possibly even early nineties. I remember coins minted in the fifties were still legal tender back the .
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A Farthing
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960 in a pound....can you imagine counting that lot, and loosing it somewhere along the way, and having to start again.
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Of course it was called a farthing because if that was all you had when you needed to spend a penny, you would have to carry on farthing.
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As an 11 year old boy in 1960 I'd have gladly counted them AP.
I remember the 1p caramel. Green wrapper and made by McGowans iirc. 240 please missus. |
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1 pence. seems strange to think there was less than that
on another point, why do americans have 1 dollar notes, what a pain in the $%$% that is, why not have a coin |
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Those £5 special collectors coins etc that are from the actual mint are AFAIK legal tender? Though you'd no doubt be getting less than their value spending them.
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When I was in USA in 2000 they had 1 dollar coins. When I returned in 2003 they didn't. Might look it up on wiki.
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Rob they still do.
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Two farthings (but not for a kid)
Blackjacks or fruit salad, were 4 for a penny. I splashed out on 2. |
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^^^^Rich kid
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1/2 p was smaller than a farthing ? in Size so 1/2 p
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Black jacks/fruit salads were 1/2p late 70s and think even going back 5/6 years ago my daughter was buying them for a penny a piece.
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Just going through my coin collection.....
1/2 p was smaller than a farthing ? in Size so 1/2 A Farthing was considerably smaller than a Halfpenny! It is in fact the size of a current Penny. An old Halfpenny is the same size as a current Two Pence. Even smaller was a silver "Three Penny Bit" of which I have 71 (bragging again)! |
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call me a taxi 10 Jan 15 21:17
Two farthings (but not for a kid) Blackjacks or fruit salad, were 4 for a penny. I splashed out on 2. Being younger than you CMAT so I am probably wrong but I thought you got 8 for a penny in the mis 60's but then my memory could be playing tricks  |
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I collected farthings when I was young. They were still legal tender but I don't think I ever spent them. You needed halfpennies for some things,like children's bus fares. I remember a conductor once did me out of a halfpenny because he charged me 1.5d and only gave me a 1d ticket. I noticed but at 7 or whatever I was I was too polite to call him a crook.
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did you out of half a penny
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Should have swung imo
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Some on here probably rode a penny farthing to work
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that's the line of the year for me salmon, spat me coffee out
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there is no lower value coin than the current penny .
it's beyond worthless . |
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the current penny is roughly worth around one tenth of the half penny of 1972,or whenever decimilisation started
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Aunty Im referring to Size only a Farthing was bigger than the Decimal half penny is what I mean ...
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But we don't have decimal Half Pennies!!
FFS my desk is covered in currency! |
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It looks a bit like one of those machines, where you roll coins in, for the hope that one will create a "coin-slide"!
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what were those coins that were tiny ,were around in the mid 1980s ? - they were half pennies
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No but we did ,and it was smaller than a farthing in size ,from what I can remember ,irrelevant tbh
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Gosh, I don't remember decimal half pennies!
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1/2 pennies & One Pound Notes
Fivers were like a Fiddy back then  |
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Think they Disapeared in the 80s Aunty
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Yeah, I've just been looking, and I do remember a coin being withdrawn, now we are talking about it.
It must have been minuscule and, looking back to the 80's, is hard to imagine how it fitted in to the economics of the time! Interesting to see that we ditched the "paper" pound some time ago, but the American dollar bill, worth only 0.66 of one pond sterling, is still used. Also that one cent, or as called now "penny", is only 0.66 of our own "penny" but still going strong! |
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It must have been minuscule and, looking back to the 80's, is hard to imagine how it fitted in to the economics of the time!
_____________ how does the penny now fit in ? that small coin was more valuable in 1984 than the penny today . |
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Has the 10 Bob note had a mentioned, known as "half a sheet in London" wurf 4 tosheroons cocker.
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How much was a bell-fruit token worth?
Seems weird now, but if you won the jackpot on a pubs fruit machine, it would pay you out in tokens which were only redeemable for beer behind the bar! |
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I think those tokens were 20p each mmm and the jackpot prize used to be 3 quid. I'm going back to around 1982 ish here.
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