Old Pennies
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Old Pennies
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.
BP![sunny :cool:](./images/smilies/flowerface.gif)
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.
BP
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Re: Old Pennies
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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Oh, a belated b/day [not bidet] BP. Sorry, emails take a lot longer from Upsidedownland.
AP. xx
AP. xx
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Happy Birthday. You ARE Paul McCartney!
Can we have a better look at the Greyhound Racer? It's on my 'wants' list.
Can we have a better look at the Greyhound Racer? It's on my 'wants' list.
Re: Old Pennies
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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the dead giveaway was Britannia has BP's knees
Which one is BP's birth coin 54 or 33![puzzled !PUZZLED!](./images/smilies/scratchhead.gif)
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Which one is BP's birth coin 54 or 33
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May all your birthdays bring such joy to the Pennymachines community!
J Peterson
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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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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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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
happy BD BP
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
happy BD BP
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….. and on that note, has anybody else noticed that The Beatles are dying in the wrong order?
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Looking through ebay last night came upon this and thought might interest BP , the ebay number is 402630749295.
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Nice, and the only way I can get my birth year on a penny.
Perhaps I'm a facsimile too?
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Perhaps I'm a facsimile too?
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Ah ..... but have you an original 1954 or 1933 to compare them to?
Believe me I'm an original 1954 and you wouldn't want to get anywhere near my patina unless armed with anything less than a wire brush and Dettol.
Believe me I'm an original 1954 and you wouldn't want to get anywhere near my patina unless armed with anything less than a wire brush and Dettol.
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So much for Americans not knowing the word 'Doppelganger'!john t peterson wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:56 pm Oh, that poor, poor doppelganger.![]()
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