A visit to Carradice

[bagpuss]

Sixpences pre 1937? Had a high silver content . What does this have to do with panniers . Not a lot .

 

[bagpuss]

What was that thing with KitKat foil?
Rolled it into a spiral with a flat top and somehow got it to stick to the ceiling?

Last I heard you smoked something in the foil and you then ended up on the ceiling.

 

[Sir Neil d'Menture]

Sixpences pre 1937? Had a high silver content . What does this have to do with panniers . Not a lot .

Silver coins pre 1919 were nearly all silver.
As a young and impecunious bank clerks in the late 1960s we spent a lot of time outsorting both pre '19 and pre '37 silver from the basic cupronickel stuff. Believe it or not you could hear the different noises they made.
Had a couple of foreign holidays on the profits from when we sold the stuff.
Don't tell the boss...he wasn't included.

 

[bagpuss]

My good lady did a little bit of the same in the 70's . [The silver content being worth more than the face value.] You needed quite a few to make it worth while . Pickings had become slim by then .
She remembers the edge of the silver ones being thinner .
Note to others the face value was always returned.

 

[Sir Neil d'Menture]

We had some tame Gas and Electric meter collectors who were made up when they found a warm welcome at our little sub branch.
Happy days.