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What do you like to buy and collect?

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Hey I thought it would be interesting to know what we all like to buy and collect. I like to buy books, I own lots of Agatha Christie books and loads of lego minifigures which I love to buy and collect. I've also began collecting money, my mum used to collect vintage banknotes, she had an album which is now mine and in it there's money from the 1920s. Such lovely things. I've also began collecting records. 

What do you all like to collect?

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  • in reply to AutisticGirl69

    That was one of our childhood obsessions.  Back in the 1960s and 70s when we still had old money.  We were trying to collect all the years of the old penny's, three pence, six pence, shillings, florins.

    We had penny's back to the 1880s,. They were filthy and worn out.

    Just thinking about the dirt on these coins makes me I'll.  Then we spent hours cleaning and getting them to shine with copper cleaning products.  More dirt and the smell!!!.

    Good old days!

  • in reply to Robert124

    Robert, soak them for a while in vinegar and then rub very gently with a soft cloth; never scrub or scrape them.

    I collected pennies, ha'pennies, thru'penny bits and sixpences (tanners). One for each year, displayed in cardboard folders sold for the purpose. I also had some farthings, but they were withdrawn when I was very young. I still have them all but no longer in display folders. I don't think they are worth much.

    There were small books for sale called 'Check Your Change' price half-a-crown (2/6d), these listed the number of coins minted each year and their rarity value.

    The old coins had character, history, size and weight, not like this toytown stuff we've had for the last fifty years (since Feb 1971 ).  You're right about Queen Victoria,  I remember coins bearing her head in circulation in the sixties, most of them very worn. Also all the kings from 1902 until Elizabeth, except Edward VIII. It made it easy for us kids to learn the succession of the monarchs and their dates.

    Ben

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  • in reply to Robert124

    Robert, soak them for a while in vinegar and then rub very gently with a soft cloth; never scrub or scrape them.

    I collected pennies, ha'pennies, thru'penny bits and sixpences (tanners). One for each year, displayed in cardboard folders sold for the purpose. I also had some farthings, but they were withdrawn when I was very young. I still have them all but no longer in display folders. I don't think they are worth much.

    There were small books for sale called 'Check Your Change' price half-a-crown (2/6d), these listed the number of coins minted each year and their rarity value.

    The old coins had character, history, size and weight, not like this toytown stuff we've had for the last fifty years (since Feb 1971 ).  You're right about Queen Victoria,  I remember coins bearing her head in circulation in the sixties, most of them very worn. Also all the kings from 1902 until Elizabeth, except Edward VIII. It made it easy for us kids to learn the succession of the monarchs and their dates.

    Ben

Children
  • in reply to Ben

    We had an acquaintance who originally encouraged us, he first told us about the rare years, when monarchs died and how to look up the value of the rare years, I think these were 1935, 1952/3.  

    1971 spoiled all this, then the shilling & florin disappeared as the 5p and 10p were downsized.  Even the 50p got smaller.  It's no fun when there are less than 100 years to collect.

    Now I just pay contactless.  No coin collection of any kind.