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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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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 *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
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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 *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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"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
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"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 *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
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"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
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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)
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"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 (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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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) OP
over a year ago
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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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"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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"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)
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"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
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"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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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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