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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2222086, member: 71234&quot;]I was getting silver 3d bits from shop tills in the early 1950s.&nbsp; I collected farthings because shopkeepers tended to leave them in a drawer in the tills instead of banking them, they&#039;d only get a few even if they were drapers, so they&#039;d swap them for pennies if asked politely, and I have a bit in reserve because along with the farthings they&#039;d quite often have a silver 3d or even several. </p><p><br /></p><p>These they&#039;d be happy to pass on as well. Occasionally I&#039;d get the odd foreign coin as a gift, or for whatever they had mistaken it for, usually a French 10 centimes. This was pretty much the same as a penny.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could easily get as many farthings and silver 3d as my pocket money allowed, which I&#039;d take home for completing sets or improving grades. The rejects went back for more material. </p><p><br /></p><p>They are not the same ones, but I have a bag of several hundred silver 3d right behind me as I write. The most I ever had at once was a dimple Haig whisky bottle full. Must have been about 4000 of them. The neck was stopped off with a twist of 20 year old newspaper, so this must have been someone&#039;s hoard accumulated over years, and I found many of the rarer ones, enough to sell the second best and just keep a year set back to mid Victoria.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was never a fan of the brass ones as anything special, but a thousand or so have accumulated in the boxes in the shed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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