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  • Bragging rights – who has the oldest coin in their wallet/purse/etc right now?!
  • orena45
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    A 1p coin dated 1993 in my dissappointingly empty wallet (edit: manpurse).

    Your turn…GO!

    (nerdy coin collectors need not apply)

    *post edited for the STW pedants 😉

    jota180
    Free Member

    A wallet that takes coins is called a purse

    piedidiformaggio
    Free Member

    Erm, pockets are for coins, wallets are for notes & cards.

    Coins in wallets mean that you don’t have a wallet, you have a purse. Is your ‘wallet’ in your handbag?

    😈 😉

    bums – 10 seconds too slow!

    konabunny
    Free Member

    Coin?

    druidh
    Free Member

    Not in my “wallet”, but I do have a 1902 Edward 7th Silver Crown on my desk.

    WackoAK
    Free Member

    1971 2p coin.

    pockets are for coins

    For a self pleasure fumble in front of the shop assistant?

    Gweilo
    Free Member

    I’ve got a 245BC Roman Republic Coin my wife bought me for Christmas, does that make me nerdy, and of the basis of

    (nerdy coin collectors need not apply)

    mean I’m not allowed to play 😥

    orena45
    Full Member

    Gweilo – only if it’s currently in your on-person coin storage area

    trail_rat
    Free Member

    does it have to be legal tender ?

    got a 1968 5 new pence in my change yesterday in place of a 10 pence piece.


    only noticed when i went to the vending machine for gum and it said nooooooope

    Hells
    Full Member

    Dang, though I was doing well with a 2p from 76!!

    NJA
    Full Member

    I have a pair of cufflinks on made from 1964 sixpences that my wife bought for me.

    1964 – year I was born!!!

    mrmo
    Free Member

    I have a 1 Dirham coin dated 1428

    orena45
    Full Member

    That’s valid in my rules Trailrat!

    unklehomered
    Free Member

    2p from 1981

    Am I allowed to check in the till to see if I can beat it?

    edit: if I am then I can get to 1971 in legal tender. Interestingly the Royal mint must replace 20p coins quite often and all these seem to pretty new.

    orena45
    Full Member

    NJA – that’s verging on nerdy coin collecting so doesn’t count 😉

    Mantastic
    Free Member

    Two Scottish £1 notes – printed in 1992

    orena45
    Full Member

    Only on-person coins in your nominated currency transporter count towards the challenge.

    But shop monkeys, by all means take a look in the till, but it’s not valid that’s all.

    unklehomered
    Free Member

    shop monkeys

    I object to that. I am a Great Ape.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    In my desk loose change receptacle (does this count?)

    Five cents (US) – 1961

    unklehomered
    Free Member

    Hang on, not going to beat 1971 in legal UK tender are we… I was wondering why so many 1971 2p coins.

    Bonus question – can you make this image from what in your pocket/purse/etc…

    I can’t 50p, 10p and £1 fail…

    CaptJon
    Free Member

    I’ve got a shiny rock i swapped for pointy stick in 5,000 BC

    druidh
    Free Member

    No, but I can from the collection of coins I kept especially for this purpose 🙂

    brakes
    Free Member

    1971 2p
    1965 nickel
    1978 Canadian cent
    Tunisian coin with the date rubbed off it’s THAT old

    somafunk
    Full Member

    I have two 20p coins dated 1982.

    unklehomered : you can have one if like, send me a stamped addressed envelope and you can own a true rarity from the halcyon era that was the 80’s.

    somafunk
    Full Member

    Ps : I am open to other offers if anyone is interested

    😆

    unklehomered
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    You should keep it, it will only increase in value!

    Cougar
    Full Member

    1976 tuppence in my pocket. Better than I expected. Last a while, don’t they?

    I’ve got a 245BC Roman Republic Coin my wife bought me for Christmas

    Er, is that the date it has on it?

    mt
    Free Member

    I have a 1933 old penny.

    I wish.

    somafunk
    Full Member

    You should keep it, it will only increase in value!

    Pffft, Not in the current economic climate with quantitative easing it won’t,…….I’d better spend it on a 20p mixture.

    ski
    Free Member

    I have a fake £1 coin in my wallet, that said it was faked in 1999.

    Its waiting to go back to Gregs where it came from 😈

    atlaz
    Free Member

    I have a 1912 penny in my wallet. Ashdown Workshop include one in an envelope with each one and I never took it out.

    atlaz
    Free Member

    I have a 1 Dirham coin dated 1428

    2007 then 😀

    mrmo
    Free Member

    I have a 1 Dirham coin dated 1428

    2007 then

    maybe….

    🙂

    jota180
    Free Member

    I have a fake £1 coin in my wallet, that said it was faked in 1999.

    Under my desk I have several hundred fake £1 coins along with a few more hundred Swaziland 1 Lilangeni coins

    Gweilo
    Free Member

    oldest current coin I have in my pocket is a remarkably shiny 2001 2p

    Cougar – re the roman coin

    Er, is that the date it has on it?

    oddly enough no, dating’s based on the pictures on the coin. I checked to make sure she wasn’t ripped off with a dude I went to school with, who is an ultra nerdy coin dealer.

    Not in my personal coin storage area so I avoid the nerdy tag 😕

    Tubbs
    Free Member

    How about a George 3rd 1770 half penny found recently in the road dug up between Buckden and Hubberholme in the dales.Was walking out with my Mum and her eagle eye spotted it.

    bruk
    Full Member

    What about a £1 note, 1997?

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