Balthazar

By balthazar

How much is that in new money?

Any fellow blippers over a certain age will doubtless remember these pre-decimal specimens: the 'old' penny and the half crown. I always think that the coins of this era had so much more character than the lightweight, shrunken versions you get nowadays. These had substance (literally) and I love the way that the penny has been rubbed smooth through so many years in circulation - the tales they could tell...

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