My oldest British Coin, 1826 Penny

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I don't think I have posted this before...but I am getting old so I may have 

1826 Great Britain Penny

Copper and it had a mintage of 5,914,000
That seems like a lot for that long ago but what do I know.

It is a nice big chunk of Copper at 34mm
My scale says 17.35g

Dale
(Thanks Alan!)

[malj1]

A nice view of Britannia in her wheelchair. 

Britain had got the hang of minting large numbers of coins a few years previously - after Mathew Boulton got things moving with his cartwheel coinage in 1797.

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The 1797 is definitely on my new "gotta have" list since I finished the Canadian Cents.
It is not quite at the top but pretty darn close.

Dale
PS and it definitely does look like a wheelchair.

A nice view of Britannia in her wheelchair. 

Britain had got the hang of minting large numbers of coins a few years previously - after Mathew Boulton got things moving with his cartwheel coinage in 1797.

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It's amazing how many people don't recognise the Union Jack on the shield and list old pennies on on-line auctions described something like, "dunno what this is but it's got a lady in a wheelchair on one side ..."

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I am aware of what it really is but I can see the connection.  However on a modern wheelchair the wheel would go much higher and Britiannia would be lower. Old wheelchairs looked different and some had wicker and the person sat higher.

Anyway, Britannia has alway been a design that impressed me. I like it.

Dale

[malj1]

Disturbing to realise anyone under forty now has never used or seen a penny. Yes its that long ago! Such an everyday item when I was young.  

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Hard to realize that the current generation doesn't even know that such a thing as a slide rule exists. Something I used regularly in school.  Just for historical siginifance, we spent some time learning to use an abacus. It is actually quite effective. Now if I want to calculate something not complicated, other than using my old RPN calculator to build a function I just open a spreadsheet.

I remember as a child buying a pop at the local grocer and the cash register was this huge entirely mechanical apparatus; it was a very impresive and ornate piece of machinery in many cases.

I never used a Penny living in the US but I do remember Silver coins in change. Now that was MONEY!

Dale

Disturbing to realise anyone under forty now has never used or seen a penny. Yes its that long ago! Such an everyday item when I was young.  

[malj1]

I remember as a child buying a pop at the local grocer and the cash register was this huge entirely mechanical apparatus; it was a very impresive and ornate piece of machinery in many cases.

I never used a Penny living in the US but I do remember Silver coins in change. Now that was MONEY!

Dale

A shop I was involved with in the early seventies had a cash register that was converted from £SD - unfortunately it only went to $9.99 so was obsolete very shortly after.

My best cartwheel twopence.

[andyg]

Disturbing to realise anyone under forty now has never used or seen a penny. Yes its that long ago! Such an everyday item when I was young.  

This particular penny was retired in 1860 - but I know what you mean