General Chat

Dear All

Hello


Do you remember the half-penny?

Well, about 30 years ago it was withdrawn from use.

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At the time The Chancellor, Nigel Lawson said the Royal Mint would stop making the tiny coin at the end of the month, and it would cease to be legal tender in 1984.

Banks sent unused stocks back to the Royal Mint.

There were lots of arguments because many prices were rounded up to
the next figure, so the consumer paid the difference.


Some people dontated their half-pennys in large sweet jars to raise money
for charities.

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Since then, the £1 note has gone, the 20p was introduced and
various alterations to other coins and pound notes.


Take gentle care
Best wishes
Elizabeth,
xx

I can remember the farthing :-(

what about the farthing showing me age now. lol :-D :-D

Yes can remember the halfpenny and the farthing.

Surely it got withdrawn when we went decimal in 1971 ?

I too recall using farthings with the picture of a Wren? on the reverse.

So who is going to own up to remembering the Groat? ;-)

I can just about remember the halfpenny i think ;-)


Whats a farthing, I think your pulling my leg

Next you will be telling us their were 4 farthing to a penny ;-) but we all know that a penny farthing only has two wheels :-D

Roy

For a short time in the eighties there were two pound coins.

Sharron, :-S There still is a two pound coin

Roy

Glitterbaby - I think Elizabeth means the decimal halfpenny :-D

I remember the groat. I'd forgotten about it, but it's in a tin upstairs :-D

Penny or pence ??

then there was also three penny bit also the silver tanner still got about twenty silver ones. :-D :-D

i collect old English coins, they are fascinating..i have some dating back to the 1700's.
just holding them or cataloging them makes me think about all the people that must have had them before me

A groat is an old 4d...

Stella :-)

Pence Glitter - but I still call them pennies

Hello All


Thanks for all the replies.

Good to see you chuckling. :-)

I mean the half-pence piece (Sorry!)

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I do remember you could get sweets out of the local newsagents for about
5 and a half pence.

Rounded up, it became 6p!!

To much for the small persons sweet allowance!


Best wishes
Elizabeth,
xx

In the early 70's, we would drive or take the train to hastings or eastbourne for a day out. We would go on the pier and get 50p worth of half pennies to play on the ammusements. Boy they lasted for ages and we had so much fun.

I do have a farthing, threepennybit, sixpence, florin, shilling, old penny and halfpenny, an old blue £5.00 note and a ten shilling note.

Pre decimalisation, I got sixpence for my pocket money. When we went decimal in 1971 my mum gave me a new 5p. Didnt tell her she had doubled my pocket money lol. Those were the days weren't they?

Florence
in the hebrides :-)

Yes I know what Elizabeth meant but it was not what was put in the original post.

yeah she meant the 1/2 p

not the halfpenny..........

The current £2 coin came at about the turn of the century but there was a sort of proto-type in about 1986.

what mathematical geniuses we must have been...........
4 farthings to a penny
two farthings to a halfpenny
2 half pennies were a penny
a threepence piece ....half a tanner......
a sixpence was a tanner
12 pennies to a shilling or a bob
two shillings were a florin
2 and a half shillings were half a crown or a half dollar
5 shillings for a while was known as a dollar
a 10 shilling note was half a bar
something fake was known as "bent as a nine bob note"
20 shillings or 240 pennies was a pound

and not forgetting the guinea

1 pound and one shilling.

and as with today prices were often 19 shillings 11 pence and three farthings

under a pound
except today its 99p
Bob

I well remember the gasman coming to empty the gas meter
counting out pennies into 5 shilling bags, very quick at spotting the foreign(mainly irish pennies) which we often got back as part of the rebate