Are Pound Coins The New Threepenny Bits?
I know pound coins are worth eighty times more than the old brass threepenny bits, but they do have some of their qualities.
I was in Carluccio’s yesterday afternoon having tea and some polenta cake, and after I’d paid my bill early in cash, I found I had a pile of about half-a-dozen pound coins in front of me. I then started playing with them, by doing things like building stacks, just as I used to do the same thing with threepenny bits over forty years ago. After all, they are about the same weight and have the same clunky feel!
The Anonymous Widower 
Absolutely . . . Check the Value of Currency against some common purchases from our childhood to now : In OZ a Pie as a kid 20 Cents, today $4.80; a Paper 10cents, today $1.20 . . .
We even use Big Mac Hamburgers to compare costs {today} across countries . . .
But how about comparing Hamburgers, Fish & Chips and Milkshakes or Cokes across the ages in UK or EU etc. . . . Yes . . . Pound Coins are our Threepenny Bits . . .
The big Concern in Oz, they are developing a $5 Coin {our next threepenny bit}
Comment by Steam Lover | February 17, 2013 |
We have £2 coins and they are just too big. The 50p coins too don’t in my view have the same playful feel.
Comment by AnonW | February 17, 2013 |