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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26797086, member: 86815&quot;]You make a great point [USER=162785]@Jamy Smith[/USER] and these are all attractive coins. I wonder sometimes if the search for fantastic condition and numbers on lumps of plastic make people overlook the artistry of the engraver and the subject matter. </p><p>Take your South African penny for example. Great regal portrait showing King George wearing the Tudor Crown and bizarrely the ship is not British but a Dutch Fluyt to celebrate the Dutch East India company landing in the region and its maritime history.</p><p>On your 1954 British Halfpenny we were taught in school that this was the &quot;Golden Hind&quot;. I remember this from 60 years ago when you could buy sweets/candy for a halfpenny and penny. When decimalisation was introduced in 1973 these sweets become &quot;one new penny&quot; which the exchange rate was 2.4 times the old penny so then we had 240% on the old coins overnight, or at least on kids sweets. A couple of years later we had VAT universal sales tax which is now 20% on top of income tax, local tax, road tax and whatever else the government can think of . Your coins represent different times....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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