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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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I'm not old enough to remember it, but do remember florins and shillings being used as 10p/5p right up until the early 1990's.
My question is regarding the old large pennies. Were Victorian pennies used in general circulation all the way up to 1967?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'd say yes, as the ones I find are circulated. Here's 3 shots of a large lot I just scored The '67 is only somewhat RB, with obvious wear. Although I did get a decent '39 in better shape. The '01 at bottom has my favorite of all the busts.    Edited by fioti
10/14/2012 7:53 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Id say there was probably a few floating around but they would have become pretty scarce from circulation. People would see them and think ohh, thats old, and the hang onto them. If you were specifically searching for them in circulation in the 60's I would say you would have pulled your hair out trying.
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Moderator
 Australia
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Just like American 1 cent coins from the 1930s that people might find in change in America today, any Victorian penny found in circulation in 1967 was likely to be a recent insertion into the economy, either from an old jar or moneybox being emptied out and spent/banked, or an old coin collection broken up and spent/banked by uninterested heirs.
From the legal standpoint, any coin struck after the Great Recoinage of 1816 was still legal tender for face value up until a few years after Decimal-Day.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
709 Posts |
Being around at the time - yes they were.
The pre 1860 large copper pennies were not used, but I saw a few 1860+ bronze pennies. As described above, I tried to hang on to them where possible because they were old, rare and interesting, but always ended up spending them.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Yes. They were. My great gran took the old stuff she found out of circulation.
She got quite a few vickys and (god knows how) we found a 1799 Half penny in the same pot.
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Valued Member
 United Kingdom
298 Posts |
Thanks for the answers. Our current currency by comparison is pretty dull when you can only go back to 1971 in loose change.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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It is quite sad. very little variation.
But hey, its not expensive to buy a kilo of assorted predecimal coinage pulled before decimal day.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
709 Posts |
True, but how much it is "unsorted" is open to question.
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Posted 10/14/2012 8:01 pm
