Staggering out of my workshop I saw it was tomorrow

[chris roadhog]

Has one tried a pound coin for size? could make a great moneybox

[badpenny]

I'm not that wealthy ......

[polaris]

great video BP interesting viewing. thought the same thing about pound coin don't have an old thruppence to hand to compare but is there a significant difference?

[wembleylion]

In Imperial measurements an old thruppence is 0.858" max diameter and 0.104" thick. A pound coin is 0.885" diameter and 0.120 thick. In fractions the pound coin is nearly 1 /32" larger in diameter and 1/64" thicker than the thruppenny bit.

John

[badpenny]

I have somewhere in the region of 600 thrupenny bits, it's the pound coins I lack.

I'm on my lucky street corner over the weekend near Lincoln Cathedral .... if I score lucky I'll report back.

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[badpenny]

Having just come out of Friday night's drunken stupor and realised I've missed Saturday again, I decided to check on the £1 coin theory.
The quick answer is "yes" following a modicum of alterations to coin acceptor etc.
Personally I like to keep machines the way they were. I guess this goes back to my youth, it wasn't easy getting a sex change when I was a little girl.

To understand the machine from an operator's point of view I've just shoved a quid's worth of Bristols ... oooops ... thruppennies (confused my rhyming slang there, apologies to Mr Peterson) through it. That's 80 of them.
I started with the columns about half full.
80 in resulted in 61 returned to the player.
23 were retained for the operator.
The columns were left just under half full.

It's a very entertaining machine to play as there is an amount of interaction via the button that operates the shelf and upon winning there is a clatter of various coins. Also as with a pusher the payouts come quickly.
It would have been one of those machines which as a kid you'd have toured the arcades regularly keeping an eye on it hoping to find the columns more than half full. Drop a couple of them and leave in profit.

[john t peterson]

Hey…watch out how your throw around the name "Bristol," buster.

We have it trade marked here in Bristol, Tennessee, home of the brave and the free…cup of coffee with a purchase of a donut for $2.00.

J Peterson
"It's Bristol, baby!" (Our new slogan. Catchy, eh?)

[badpenny]

Bristol City - Titty
Thruppeny bits - Tits

..... and not a doughnut in sight (what the hell is a donut? .... they're not made from do they're made from dough. )
We can still teach you a thing or three Mr P