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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Ok so I may be showing my age here but the other day I happened to mention 1/2 penny coins ... I was looked at like I was from the planet freak of the constellation retarded ... I mean someone even said that I was lying and they couldnt not didnt but COULDNT have existed ... surely I am not the only ones that remembers those damn little coins that I could never find!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yup,

I remember those. As a kid we could go to the shop and buy a few 1/2p sweets

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh , under a £ meant 99 and a half pence

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

and £1 notes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I remember them. Cute little tiddlers. I remember the old pennies too,the big ones

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

I remember taking thrupenny bits to the sweet shop

I actually still have some post decimal half pennies around somewhere.

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By *orph n gspotCouple
over a year ago

rochester

Ohhh yes i remember..... got a lot of sweeties for 10p lol x

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Yep, I'm old enough to remember them.

Blow their mind and introduce the idea of the sixpence to them.

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

Just googled...1984 was when the half penny stopped being legal tender...I'm old enough to remember getting 8 fruit salads for a penny - was distraught when they went to 4 a penny

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By *ackandkateCouple
over a year ago

Truro

I'm an old twat. I can remember farthings.

4 farthings make an old one penny, which is a third of our current penny.

12 farthings to a current penny

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By *nigmatic1Woman
over a year ago

A seaside town near you!

I remember half a crown ...two shillings and sixpence ...Jesus I need a zimmer right now!!!

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

I wonder how much the cheapest sweets are nowadays ??

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum


"Just googled...1984 was when the half penny stopped being legal tender...I'm old enough to remember getting 8 fruit salads for a penny - was distraught when they went to 4 a penny "

Confectionary inflation. Now they just make things smaller.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know one of you out there will remember groats and doubloons

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've still got one somewhere and we still get pound notes up here too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Just googled...1984 was when the half penny stopped being legal tender...I'm old enough to remember getting 8 fruit salads for a penny - was distraught when they went to 4 a penny

Confectionary inflation. Now they just make things smaller."

.... and what happened to Tooti-Fruity's?.. The name changed but so did the flavours too

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum


"I know one of you out there will remember groats and doubloons "

I remember florins

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral

I remember theepenny bits,green £1 notes but not white fivers lol

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By *ackandkateCouple
over a year ago

Truro

I remember Mars being 7d and when decimalization came in they went up to 4p which was 10d in old money, nearly 50% inflation

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By *ackandkateCouple
over a year ago

Truro


"I know one of you out there will remember groats and doubloons

I remember florins "

yeah, 2 bob bits

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"and £1 notes"

I've still got a 10 bob (shilling) note

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria


"Just googled...1984 was when the half penny stopped being legal tender...I'm old enough to remember getting 8 fruit salads for a penny - was distraught when they went to 4 a penny

Confectionary inflation. Now they just make things smaller."

Yep, don't get me started on fecking Wagon Wheels, my blood pressure will rocket

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jeez, I remember the OLD half penny...might still have a few somewhere. The 'new' ones did not last very long because no one could be bothered with them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Half pennies and £1 pound notes

I'm not old enough to remember all the other funny sounding money

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Just googled...1984 was when the half penny stopped being legal tender...I'm old enough to remember getting 8 fruit salads for a penny - was distraught when they went to 4 a penny

Confectionary inflation. Now they just make things smaller.

Yep, don't get me started on fecking Wagon Wheels, my blood pressure will rocket "

Wagon wheels? You mean them things that woz bigga in de old days...lol

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

I've got a trunk full of old coins, £5 coins and so on. I collect the unusual ones.

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By *ackandkateCouple
over a year ago

Truro


"I've got a trunk full of old coins, £5 coins and so on. I collect the unusual ones. "

£5 coins?

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"I've still got one somewhere and we still get pound notes up here too"

You have £100 notes too. It's all very strange.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

yes jack andkate they were limited editions if i remember rightly the £5 coins I mean lol, well glad im not the only one and as for thrupenny bits etc i have some but i dont remember them per se, I DO remember one pound notes too omg thats going back a while for me :P

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Half pennies

Pound notes

I suddenly feel very old!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

awww dont feel old feel priveleged that you remember something historic :P

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By *lan43sumMan
over a year ago

Leicester

There was an old folk song telling the girls to keep their hands on their ha'pennies - not sure why?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

lol not sure it was alluding to their ha'penny coins but you never know

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"lol not sure it was alluding to their ha'penny coins but you never know "

I've not heard it called a ha'penny but I have heard it referred to as a tuppence.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

well my great gran used to call them ha pennies but i think she remembered money from the roman era of Britain lol think when she was a girl there was 200 and odd pennies in a pound

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By *ackandkateCouple
over a year ago

Truro


"well my great gran used to call them ha pennies but i think she remembered money from the roman era of Britain lol think when she was a girl there was 200 and odd pennies in a pound"

240 pennies in a pound

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By *aitinkCouple
over a year ago

York

And there are those who think we were so much better at arithmetic doing base 12 and base 20 calculations. And with 14 lbs in a stone base 14 too. This metric crap is soooo booooring.

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By *ackandkateCouple
over a year ago

Truro


"And there are those who think we were so much better at arithmetic doing base 12 and base 20 calculations. And with 14 lbs in a stone base 14 too. This metric crap is soooo booooring."

16oz to the lb

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've still got one somewhere and we still get pound notes up here too

You have £100 notes too. It's all very strange.

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unfortunately i never seem to have any of them in my purse

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By *aitinkCouple
over a year ago

York

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By *aitinkCouple
over a year ago

York


"And there are those who think we were so much better at arithmetic doing base 12 and base 20 calculations. And with 14 lbs in a stone base 14 too. This metric crap is soooo booooring.

16oz to the lb"

Bummer, forgot that, how about 21 shillings to the Guinea

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By *occerstar579Man
over a year ago

Harrogate

asked oldest kid for a marathon yesterday!!!! totally blank look!! so i said dont worry....get me some opal fruits instead!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was confused as a child because a 'six-pence' was only worth 2 and a half pence.

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over a year ago

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They were on the news

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Half pennies

Pound notes

I suddenly feel very old! "
10 schilling notes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'll give you half a crown for it?

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By *ogistical NightmaresCouple
over a year ago

Manchester Area

I(fem) remember saving my pennies and my Mum changed them for a £1 note. My Dad asked to look at the note and tore off a corner, gave it back to me and told me it was now only worth 19/6d. I was heartbroken and my Mum had to change it for me.

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By *.nottsbloke..Man
over a year ago

the vale

I love thrupenny bits.

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