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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tulipone, post: 2148600, member: 71656&quot;]I bought a cheap bag of sixpenny coins on Saturday didn&#039;t really know anything about them apart they were useful to exchange for sweets when I was a kid.&nbsp; I have had some fun going through them and picking out the best of each year, photographing, cataloguing them and putting them into flips.&nbsp; It is like having a crash recentish modern history lesson. </p><p><br /></p><p>They stopped being made in 1967 - but go back for ever.&nbsp; The bag was cheap and incomplete now I have an almost OCD urge to get the fill in years for a complete run.&nbsp; The bag had 1967 back to 1958, missed 1957, then continued running back to 1952 (typically a key year as nickel was scare through the Korean War) to 1947.&nbsp; 1946 was the last &#039;silver&#039; year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thankfully these coins are still very collectable as I am now back to 1937 with other years (1931, 1927, 1926, 1921, 1920 and 1889) on their way to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>That initial bag has cost about £40!!!&nbsp; Well actually that initial bag cost £3 - but with the extra storage box, different flips and extra coins it come to a shade under £40!</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you all still get that buzz of discovery, renewal of history, sense of loss of things gone by?&nbsp; Sad that George 6th lost Emperor of India title?&nbsp; Silver is no longer used in current coins?&nbsp; Above all else, an extreme urge to spend on all years?</p><p><br /></p><p>As a footnote to anyone that got this far, I have a number of spares.&nbsp; They are all circulated and differing degrees of dirty.&nbsp; Does anyone want some of them?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1033.photobucket.com/albums/a415/tulipone1/1945%20Sixpence%20Face_zpswm0eqody.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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