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Old Pennies

Postby badpenny » Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:03 pm

Coincidences are sometimes baffling but interesting.
Wednesday was my birthday, Fifty-Fourteen years of age. Somebody asked me with all the pre-decimal coins I've got, why hadn't I mounted a frame of coins for my year?
I have a vague idea I once tried to, but it was more dificult than I thought it would be.

Now the other part, a few weeks ago I was photographing some machines I'll be off loading this year.
One of them being a Caille type Greyhound Racer. At the time I wanted to show that the sign for 10 payout had been ground down and changed. So I took a close up of it and then cropped the wrong side, giving me a close up of the pennies on the top instead. And there is a 1954, never seen one before. Now since then it's all been moved and the coins thrown into one of the many buckets of coins I've got laying around.
Typical, if I can be bothered to search it'll take me ages.

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Caille type Greyhound
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Wrong side of the cropped photo
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Postby JC » Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:21 pm

OK, come on then - what's the story? Pennies weren't minted in 1954 and I'm pretty damn certain you don't have a 1933 penny either. But happy birthday anyway.
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Postby andydotp » Sat Jul 21, 2018 2:30 am

Oh, a belated b/day [not bidet] BP. Sorry, emails take a lot longer from Upsidedownland.
AP. xx
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Postby brigham » Sat Jul 21, 2018 7:34 am

Happy Birthday. You ARE Paul McCartney!
Can we have a better look at the Greyhound Racer? It's on my 'wants' list.
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Postby gameswat » Sat Jul 21, 2018 8:57 am

On looking at your birthright coin I see that Brittania looks more like a centurion than a goddess!? Hippy bath day.
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Postby coppinpr » Sat Jul 21, 2018 10:54 am

the dead giveaway was Britannia has BP's knees :o
Which one is BP's birth coin 54 or 33 !PUZZLED!
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Postby john t peterson » Sat Jul 21, 2018 11:18 am

May all your birthdays bring such joy to the Pennymachines community! !PARTY! #Happy~BIRTHDAY#

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Postby treefrog » Mon Jul 23, 2018 9:19 am

Congratulations BP, one more year and you can retire :lol:
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Re: Old Pennies

Postby badpenny » Mon Jul 23, 2018 9:36 am

What again?
I first retired over ten years ago.

It's two years to go actually, the thieving bloody government extended the pension age a few years back. Sadly they extended women's from 60 to 66. Makes me glad I changed sex back when I did.

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Postby coppinpr » Mon Jul 23, 2018 11:57 am

two photos to ponder
1. BP pays homage to his favorite hobby
2. this has to be the best selfie ever taken...and just makes you want to smile
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happy BD BP
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