Christmas many years ago

[GrannyMac]

We kids, my cousins and I, got quite excited if we got a siver threepenny bit in our pud. We always had to give them back for next year though! 

[JBR]

We kids, my cousins and I, got quite excited if we got a siver threepenny bit in our pud. We always had to give them back for next year though!

Like most coins, reusable!

[Scrumpy]

I remember sitting with my two sister making paper chains to decorate the living room... We would go into the park and collect holly .. 
My mum used to crack nuts as we sat around an open fire..
A pillowcase hung at the bottom of our beds .. Orange.. Apple .. and chocolate would be inside.. along with a present..
A group of us would go carol singing... We even sang outside the pub where they had a whip round for us.
Wonderful days.

[Mups]

Get yourself one on eBay a 1938 one so I doubt it will really be silver. Especially for a couple of quid

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176494342210

Seeing those,   with no shaped edges like I remember thrupenny bits had,  perhaps yours were what we had after all?   Maybe because yours had smooth edges I got muddled up with sixpences.   Dunno.  

[klondike]

Sixpences got used I imagine but nobody is likely to have put brass thrupenny bits in imo.

[Mups]

Sixpences got used I imagine but nobody is likely to have put brass thrupenny bits in imo.

Yes I agree.   So whether ours were the old type thruppenies like you said, or 6d's,  I will probably never know now.

[klondike]

JBR said they weren't legal tender but there are plenty on eBay around that time and the 12 sided brass ones on there seem to be later so I think he was wrong. They don't usually withdraw coins just a year or two after minting them. I remember farthings going.

[Mups]

I think I remember farthings too.   Didn't they have a little Robin on one side?

[klondike]

Yes. At least some did. Maybe all.

[Mups]

Yes. At least some did. Maybe all.

I wonder what todays kids will remember when they are 'oldies.'  

[klondike]

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