Nice! I found a brass penny on my walk this morning. Find a penny pick it up; all day long you'll have good luck goes the old (UK) saying. Ever hopeful :)
Also a saying I grew up with but here in the US I was told if you find a penny on heads to pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck I like your way better so many lost penny's
Do any of you remember going to the corner mom and pop grocery store with a few pennies? They had a full glass case of dozens of pieces of candy (penny candy). You could get quite a few pieces of candy. You got a cool paper bag and when you left with your treasure, you had a big smile on your face.
I think I may be younger so inflation had set it, but I definitely remember the joy of the occasional "open candy paper bag run."
Heck, I remember taking a piece or two without paying, and having my grandfather realize it after we'd left and marching me back into the store to apologize and pay. I was probably 5 or so... 😁
Went to The Mall yesterday and the cost of the gumball machine was 50 cent, lol. That was a bummer, so thanks for balancing it out in my head with these good memories. 👍
Sadly no. Miss the old coins; when I was a kid a half crown was a fortune to spend in a tuck shop. They were so lovely, had character and soul. I have a boxful: florins, sixpences, thruppence and a farthing. They were all worth something, now a reminder of better days.
The wheat ones are pretty cool looking. Ironically the day I found one was the day after I saw a How I Met Your Mother episode where the guy finds a penny on the ground and is the only one interested that it was minted in 1936. Adjusted for time, mine was about the same age, but from the fifties
Nice! I found a brass penny on my walk this morning. Find a penny pick it up; all day long you'll have good luck goes the old (UK) saying. Ever hopeful :)
Also a saying I grew up with but here in the US I was told if you find a penny on heads to pick it up and all day long you'll have good luck I like your way better so many lost penny's
Do any of you remember going to the corner mom and pop grocery store with a few pennies? They had a full glass case of dozens of pieces of candy (penny candy). You could get quite a few pieces of candy. You got a cool paper bag and when you left with your treasure, you had a big smile on your face.
I think I may be younger so inflation had set it, but I definitely remember the joy of the occasional "open candy paper bag run."
Heck, I remember taking a piece or two without paying, and having my grandfather realize it after we'd left and marching me back into the store to apologize and pay. I was probably 5 or so... 😁
Went to The Mall yesterday and the cost of the gumball machine was 50 cent, lol. That was a bummer, so thanks for balancing it out in my head with these good memories. 👍
Smiles!!
Sen's 5 & 10 Cent Store for me....
You mean a proper bronze one of the '71-'84 era before they were plated steel? I like the old ones so much better.
Sadly no. Miss the old coins; when I was a kid a half crown was a fortune to spend in a tuck shop. They were so lovely, had character and soul. I have a boxful: florins, sixpences, thruppence and a farthing. They were all worth something, now a reminder of better days.
US pennies were copper until 1983.
Yours changed around the same as ours in the uk then. Ours were a 97% copper bronze IIRC.
The copper was probably in danger of being worth more than the face value of the coin, with a safety margin.
That’s a bingo.
Halfway through 1982, but yeah.
The wheat ones are pretty cool looking. Ironically the day I found one was the day after I saw a How I Met Your Mother episode where the guy finds a penny on the ground and is the only one interested that it was minted in 1936. Adjusted for time, mine was about the same age, but from the fifties