How old is your money

[jimspeed]

just had a £1 coin in change that was made in 1984 it was pretty well worn in places but got me wondering how old most of our coins are that are still in circulation, anyone beat 30 years old, I bet that coin has bought a few beers in its travels
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[Ariel Badger]

The decimal (present) method of coinage came in Feb 1971 before that it was common to be given coins that were over 100 years old.
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[stinkwheel]

I just noticed the other day (when one stuck to the magnet inside my tankbag) that all coins up to 10p in value have now been debased to steel rather than the copper/nickel alloy they used to be.

Before they brought in the new, smaller (nd now steel) 5p and 10p pieces, you used to still get shillings and florins (a 2 shilling piece) in circulation. A shilling was worth 12 old pence and five new pence, both of whioch equated to 1/20th of as pound. I remember using shillings with Edward VII on them when I was at school in the late 1980's.
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[TheSmiler]

Well one of my oldest coins is from the 1600's obviously that is not in circulation. Badger is right unfortunately, I do have VF (Very Fine) coins from 1971- present day. Most of the valuable coins are kept at my nans though.

The vending machine where I'm currently working won't actually accept the new 5p's and 10p's.
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[Mira]

Just checked the change in my pocket, and I have a 20p piece from 1982.
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[chris-red]

I have a penny from 1976, beat that bitches
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[Andy_Pagin]

I've got a penny from 1913 in my wallet.
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[G]

Check your 50ps for 'Kew Garden' ones, too.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/kew-gardens-50p-coin-is-incredibly-rare-worth-up-to-120--and-one-in-300-of-us-has-one-says-royal-mint-9141817.html
Though, I suspect price will go down now more people know about them.

[Polarbear]

Talking about money, when I was in Singapore, the notes were plastic rather than paper and the were bloody tough too, I couldn't rip one!

I gather we will be changing to plastic as well.
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[piazza]

Just found a 50p on Gumtree, £50 and it's yours

https://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/kew-50p-coin/1049644282

[N cee thirty]

I have a 3 penny piece from 1959 and a one shilling piece from 1956 randomly on my pc desk.
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[mooserx]

I've got one of them 20p pieces with no date on so I cant answer your question, rumor has it its worth slightly more than 20p....
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[mentalboy]

A quick root through the shrapnel in my pocket has two 2p pieces from 1974, one from 1971 and a 1p from 1971, who said Devon was still in the dark ages?
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Probably got a few older 1p and 2p pieces in a jar. 20p pieces only came out in the early 1980s and pound coins a couple of years later so no decently old ones of those, while 5p, 10p and 50p pieces have all been replaced with smaller versions in the last decade or 2.

Had plastic bank notes in Aus while we were there. Quite liked them and they survived well when they were put through the washing machine. Got a Northern Ireland plastic note floating around somewhere.

All the best

Keith
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[Fisty]

I have a Quarter Stater from 175-100 BC from the Iron age Cantii tribe.

https://i.imgur.com/RVNkX05.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/lpAjY2S.jpg

And a Saxon Sceat from around 716 AD.

https://i.imgur.com/nMApQ2V.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/fiwXgMQ.jpg

So over 2000 years old and nearly 1300 years old!
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[Lord Percy]

Yeah I didn't mind the plastic notes when I was in Aus either. A mate of mine mentioned that the UK might be getting them and he thought it was a daft idea. I couldn't be bothered arguing with him, but to be honest it surely makes far better sense to change to these new durable waterproof ones.

And about coins - At my gran's house there was a little pot of lots of old coins that kind of fascinated me as a kid because I'd never seen them in 'real life' before. Two main ones I remember were a threeppeny bit (no idea what the date may have been for that), and an older one that had the face of King George on it.

[Villers]

Fistys coins are awesome!

I like the plastic notes, Mexico has them in the smaller denominations & it means you can swim up to the pool bar and still give the guy a tip! Theres a company near me took on more employees too because they got the contract to make the plastic
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[thx1138]

when shilling and two shilling coins were still being accepted as 5 and 10pence, had a few old ones, used to sell them to the coin shop for 25p and 50p a time.

[guile]

The coin clippers took all the all silver coins to be replaced with cheap metal coins. Fuck them. A true robbery from the public which goes unchallenged.