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
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