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<p>[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 3127215, member: 14873"]<font face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">It’s called Thread Drift.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Yes, and I messed it up by interjecting my Charles II crowns - sorry, but I was actually responding to the original post which talked about starting out to buy a certain coin and ending up buying a completely different (or additional) one.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">After reading all of the very interesting posts in this thread I thought it might be interesting in addition to list the various coin denominations in use in Britain when I was a boy in the 1930s and 1940s and our terminology and phonetical pronunciations relating to them - Lancashire (Lanky) dialect.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Twelve pennies=one shilling - Twenty shillings=one pound</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Money was generically called “brass”.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Of course, Cartwheels had long ago disappeared from use as had crowns. Farthings were no longer in general use (I never used any and don’t remember seeing any being used) - 3 pence (for now) were the tiny silver issues until superseded by the new, larger and heavy nickel-brass twelve sided ones in the late 1930s.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Official Denomination .... What we called them (phonetical):</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Half penny .................. (h)ape - née</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Penny .......................... penny (two pennies was tuppence).</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Three pence ................ threpp - ny - bit</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Sixpence ...................... tanner</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Shilling ........................ bob (twelve pence)</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Florin ........................... two bob (twenty pence)</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Half Crown .................. (h)arf-a-crown (two shillings and sixpence)</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">When I was a young schoolboy (approx. 1934 until 1939) I mostly was given/used half pennies and pennies - they would buy candy, etc. I got a sixpence on Saturday’s to go to the local cinema - Mickey Mouse club: cartoons, cowboy shorts - Buck Jones and Ken Maynard (no singing cowboys yet), Jungle Jim (no Tarzan yet) and Charlie Chan (a Tizer and Mars bar included). Tuppence (two pennies) bought the cheapest offering of chips at fish and chip shops - It was during the Depression and things were cheap (sorry for the digression).</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">BTW, paper currency was mostly ten shilling notes (ten bob) and one pound notes (quid). Five pound notes (very large size) were privy to the rich - I only ever saw one when I was a youngster.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><img src="http://jp29.org/000britpennyo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://jp29.org/000britpennyr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Circulated Penny of my birth year</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Obverse: George V, bare headed, facing left</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Inscription: <b>GEORGIVS V DEI GRA BRITT OMN REX FID DEF IND IMP</b></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Reverse: Britannia wearing Corinthian helmet, seated left, holding trident with left hand and supporting shield with right hand</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Inscription: <b>ONE PENNY - 1929</b> (in exergue)</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 3127215, member: 14873"][FONT=Times New Roman] It’s called Thread Drift. Yes, and I messed it up by interjecting my Charles II crowns - sorry, but I was actually responding to the original post which talked about starting out to buy a certain coin and ending up buying a completely different (or additional) one. After reading all of the very interesting posts in this thread I thought it might be interesting in addition to list the various coin denominations in use in Britain when I was a boy in the 1930s and 1940s and our terminology and phonetical pronunciations relating to them - Lancashire (Lanky) dialect. Twelve pennies=one shilling - Twenty shillings=one pound Money was generically called “brass”. Of course, Cartwheels had long ago disappeared from use as had crowns. Farthings were no longer in general use (I never used any and don’t remember seeing any being used) - 3 pence (for now) were the tiny silver issues until superseded by the new, larger and heavy nickel-brass twelve sided ones in the late 1930s. Official Denomination .... What we called them (phonetical): Half penny .................. (h)ape - née Penny .......................... penny (two pennies was tuppence). Three pence ................ threpp - ny - bit Sixpence ...................... tanner Shilling ........................ bob (twelve pence) Florin ........................... two bob (twenty pence) Half Crown .................. (h)arf-a-crown (two shillings and sixpence) When I was a young schoolboy (approx. 1934 until 1939) I mostly was given/used half pennies and pennies - they would buy candy, etc. I got a sixpence on Saturday’s to go to the local cinema - Mickey Mouse club: cartoons, cowboy shorts - Buck Jones and Ken Maynard (no singing cowboys yet), Jungle Jim (no Tarzan yet) and Charlie Chan (a Tizer and Mars bar included). Tuppence (two pennies) bought the cheapest offering of chips at fish and chip shops - It was during the Depression and things were cheap (sorry for the digression). BTW, paper currency was mostly ten shilling notes (ten bob) and one pound notes (quid). Five pound notes (very large size) were privy to the rich - I only ever saw one when I was a youngster. [IMG]http://jp29.org/000britpennyo.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://jp29.org/000britpennyr.jpg[/IMG] [B]Circulated Penny of my birth year[/B] Obverse: George V, bare headed, facing left Inscription: [B]GEORGIVS V DEI GRA BRITT OMN REX FID DEF IND IMP[/B] Reverse: Britannia wearing Corinthian helmet, seated left, holding trident with left hand and supporting shield with right hand Inscription: [B]ONE PENNY - 1929[/B] (in exergue) [/FONT][/QUOTE]
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