History Challenge & Journal

[Big Boy]

There most certainly was. I've still got a couple somewhere. You must have been posh if your family could afford a sixpence.

[HHTel]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Silver-Threepe ... 7023513568

Didn't know there were so many different silver thrupenny bits. Some that are worth a few bob (lol).
A 1927 George V, for example, is listed at £180 on Ebay

NB: BB will be frantically searching for the ones he has.

[Big Boy]

I have a 1952 sixpence, which is supposed to be rare.

[dtaai-maai]

I have a 1952 sixpence, which is supposed to be rare.

The last year of George VI's reign of course, but I wouldn't plan the family's inheritance on it. According to this website https://www.allcoinvalues.com/united-ki ... ge-vi.html you might get £1-10 if it's in decent nick, and as much as £90 if it has never been in circulation.

[Dannie Boy]

I believe that the silver thrupence was traditionally put in a Christmas Pudding!!

The coin in a Christmas pudding was a silver sixpence. There was never a silver 3 pence.

I think you’ll find that there were
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threepe ... tish_coin)

[caller]

I have a 1952 sixpence, which is supposed to be rare.

There are websites that state the value of old coinage, according to one such site, yours is worth up to 89 pounds plus, another states up to 140 pounds and the final one, only 25 pounds, all depending on what version you have (edit - just saw DM had already posted a link).

I bought some old coins with me when I came to Thailand, having checked which ones might have some value. I must get them out again and have another look.

[Dannie Boy]

Condition is everything - same coin uncirculated could be worth ten times the value of a coin that’s been in circulation


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[Big Boy]

I have a 1952 sixpence, which is supposed to be rare.

The last year of George VI's reign of course, but I wouldn't plan the family's inheritance on it. According to this website https://www.allcoinvalues.com/united-ki ... ge-vi.html you might get £1-10 if it's in decent nick, and as much as £90 if it has never been in circulation.

There are websites that state the value of old coinage, according to one such site, yours is worth up to 89 pounds plus, another states up to 140 pounds and the final one, only 25 pounds, all depending on what version you have.

It's OK caller, I can spot a con man trying to swindle my son's inheritance from me.

Shame on DM (£1-10 indeed), the coin is safely locked in the family vault with all of my old Plymouth Argyle programmes.

[dtaai-maai]

I bought some old coins with me when I came to Thailand, having checked which ones might have some value. I must get them out again and have another look.

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[caller]

I bought some old coins with me when I came to Thailand, having checked which ones might have some value. I must get them out again and have another look.

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Well, the thing is, what was I to do with them? My parents kept some old coins, that they said had some value and when my mum died back in 94 I just kept them and they moved with me wherever I went. So when I was packing the keepsakes I was bringing here, I thought I'd check to see if they really were worth anything. Two thirds went and the other third came with me. One coin in particular was worth about 200 pounds and the rest had various values assigned to them.

As for Chelsea footy programmes, Wimbledon tennis programmes scrapbooks and gig programmes - they're all in a mates loft in Kingston!

[dtaai-maai]

The truth is I'm jealous. I've lost so much stuff over the years, starting when the house was destroyed in the great storm of 87, then 2 divorces and umpteen moves here and abroad, and now that I'm back here in the UK (probably for good) I can't help wishing I still had some of those things with me. Nothing of any great financial value, just keepsakes, and boxes of books that mysteriously vanished from someone's loft... <sob>

[dtaai-maai]

It was 'scraps'. In my day chips were always ordered with 'scraps'.

Yep, but you're a Yorkshireman - they/we still call 'em scraps up here in the Notts/Sth Yorks area, but dahn in Sarf London where I was brung up I have a feeling we called them bits or something. Caller, where are you? Any other 60+ Londoners?

(Of course, a small portion of chips is over a quid these days...)

Come on, caller, you're a Londoner about my age, cast your mind back, what did you call them?

[Dannie Boy]

Getting old plays havoc with your (my) memory, but I recollect we called them “scratchings” and when you didn’t have 6d (2.1/2p) in your pocket for a bag of chips, they were a tasty treat!!

[lindosfan1]

Getting old plays havoc with your (my) memory, but I recollect we called them “scratchings” and when you didn’t have 6d (2.1/2p) in your pocket for a bag of chips, they were a tasty treat!!

I agree scratchings, we used to be charged one old penny for a bag.

[Big Boy]

I never encountered this strange phenomenon until I transferred to work in Eaglescliffe, when it was not unknown to be in queue of people at the chip shop, with everybody in front of you queuing for a bag of scraps. Being semi-snob at that point (a Southerner living in the wild North), I found myself looking down on those people who couldn't even afford a proper portion of fish and chips. Of course, I soon turned native .

I just wonder what happened to this waste product in Plymouth?