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Craig Earl
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| Posted: 14 November 2025 at 6:54am | IP Logged | 1
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Yes Peter, I remember the days of the halfpenny (maybe Black Jacks & Fruit Salads were 1/2p chews?)
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John Byrne
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Canadians missed the boat with the twoonie. As our own Paul Gibney pointed out, they should have gone with “dubloon”.
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Jason Ladwig
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I have an x-ray of a patient that inhaled a penny and a dime. The x-ray was done so well that you can make out Lincoln's head on the penny and the eagle on the backside of the dime. I ask residents to tell me what the coins are, rarely do they get it. The new residents aren't a change in your pocket generation.
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Mikael Bergkvist
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| Posted: 14 November 2025 at 1:34pm | IP Logged | 4
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Does this mean that Batman has to retire his giant penny?
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Peter Martin
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| Posted: 14 November 2025 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | 5
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Craig wrote:
| maybe Black Jacks & Fruit Salads were 1/2p chews?) |
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By jove, I think you're right!
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Peter Martin
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| Posted: 14 November 2025 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | 6
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JB wrote:
| Canadians missed the boat with the twoonie. As our own Paul Gibney pointed out, they should have gone with “dubloon”. |
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Took me a moment to work that out. I was going to say, toonie is pretty clever, but dubloon would have been genius!
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Trevor Smith
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"Canadians missed the boat with the twoonie. As our own
Paul Gibney pointed out, they should have gone with
“dubloon”."
Oh that's brilliant.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 14 November 2025 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | 8
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Does this mean that Batman has to retire his giant penny?••• Non sequitur.
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John Byrne
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A couple of decades back my Dad sent me a small box filled with old British coins he’d gathered from his mother’s house when she died. Well worn by many, many long years of use, two were old pennies, the size of silver dollars and rubbed almost completely smooth. But on one I was able to coax forth the shadow of a date: 1714. To think how many times that coin had been spent, before it landed in my grandfather’s pocket! The fact that it was still legal tender was crazy enough!
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Vinny Valenti
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"The fact that it was still legal tender was crazy enough!"
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Wow!
Makes me think about one of the pitfalls of time travel - thinking you can take advantage of inflation by bringing your money back with you and live like a king....except most of your modern-day currency wouldn't be accepted there/then.
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Bill Collins
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| Posted: 25 November 2025 at 8:31am | IP Logged | 11
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Yes Peter and Craig, Black Jack and Fruit Salad chews were
1/2p each and if memory serves so was an Anglo and Bazooka
Joe bubble gum! I remember The Beano and Dandy comics being
2p each. Oh and a Cadbury's Freddo was 3p!
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 25 November 2025 at 2:26pm | IP Logged | 12
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I remember all these sweets.
And then there were Mojos, which had a 3 for 1p version. Tat one I found
weird, even as a kid, as you had to buy a minimum of three
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