Has anyone seen my tax disc

Note: * = denomination issued for use in the colonies, usually in
Ceylon, Malta, or the West Indies, but normally counted as part of the
British coinage.[/QUOTE]

So what you're saying is that Lozzo is a descendant of someone so
incredibly tight they counted things in one-sixteenth of an old penny?

*Envy*

 

You're just not cut out for capitalismo are you?

 

Not unless his Maltese ancestors actually came from Ceylon as that's
where the quarter farthing* was used.

*Originally 'fourthing' from it being a quarter of a penny, and pennies
often were snipped in half or to quarters before the farthing became a
coin in it's own right.

 

The Older Gentleman wrote:

"Ohh, my jar's bigger than your jar".

The jars I sling silver in I will bother to count and bag but to be frank
I consider my time better spent doing other things rather than scrabbling
through pennies - hence I'm happy to use the services of a "pikey with a
counting machine".

 

Actually, I can just see The Spiccy One with a pair of tin-snips and an
old penny.

 

The BiL got us one of those "smash 'em when they're full" money pots
the Xmas before last. We've only put £2 coins in, for 16 months, I can
barely lift it, and it's about 3/4 full.

I think I'll bag them up when we smash it.

Wot he said, unless I get some spare time to do it at work.
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The Older Gentleman says...

Farthing please. Whole pennies should be cherished.

 

Heh... The old 'old pennies' before farthings were minted actually had
a cross on the back to make snipping them easier.

 

"Check your decimal change"

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

Seems to work in every bureau de change I've been into.
I still don't relish the advent of the euro in the UK though. Daft really, I
mean, does it matter which currency we're being bought with?

 

Yeah, but he'd be clipping, not quartering.

 

platypus says...

You have a low opinion of me. I hope I can sustain the justification.

 

I'm not an accountant, but I'm pretty sure that it's still 7.5%, old
boy.

 

Erm, yes.... ;-)

 

Yes, but exchanging valid sterling for *less* valid sterling?

 

Yes, but exchanging valid sterling for *less* valid sterling?[/QUOTE]

How can the sterling be less valid?

 

Pip wrote:

Thruppenny bits were twelve-sided.
Picture at: http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/money.htm

... unless they were silver thruppenny bits as found in Christmas
puddings and dutifully returned at the end of the meal to go into next
year's pudding.

 

Salad Dodger wrote

As ever, well done Nick.

 

I have lots (about 18 I think) of silver threepenny bits because
everybody gave their pudding prizes to me when I was little.


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I take mine down to the corner shop, they count it and are glad of the
60 odd quid in small change from time to time