Coin images on War Savings card.

[malj1]

Looking at this War Savings card printed in 1918 I found images of the Edward VII Crown and Victorian four-shilling piece along with half-crown, florin, shilling and two sixpences of George V. I would have expected the four-shilling piece to have long ceased circulating. [possibly the half-crown is Edward VII 1907 - can't be sure]

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The four shilling piece coin was last issued in 1890.

When I was a teenager, I took a George III coin home. It didn't have a denomination, and it didn't exactly match the size of any coin I knew. My father looked at it and immediately recognised it as a sixpence, because it had still circulated in the 1930s, when he was a child.

[Figleaf]

Would it still be legal to offer a loan arrangement and not mention the interest rate? Taking a one year period to collect the necessary stamps, I calculate 4.6% over the 6 years of the loan. Considerably less if you want the money before. Decent, but not spectacular for the period.

Peter

[villa66]

Looking at this War Savings card printed in 1918 I found images of the Edward VII Crown and Victorian four-shilling piece along with half-crown, florin, shilling and two sixpences of George V. I would have expected the four-shilling piece to have long ceased circulating....

Well-worn double-florins are very common in my own experience, so they must have had circulating lives considerably lengthier than their production lives. But if they were mostly out of circulation by WWI, maybe there is the hope (expressed in the inclusion of the double-florin) that some of the country's sidelined wealth can be brought back into play?

Or maybe the four-shilling is just the coin that helps the design add up to 15/6 in a more photogenic fashion?

For my own part, I wonder why not replace one of the sixpence coins with a pair of silver threepence pieces--and pull in even the smallest savers. But then because these stamps are apparently only of the 6d denomination, a 3d image might have created false expectations.

Wonderful item. Thanks for the look!

v.

[malj1]

I am unsure if this same card was used in WW2 but it does look familiar. I took 6d to school every Monday morning and in exchange the teacher gave out the stamps which we then stuck on our cards. I don't remember what happened when the card was full but I think it must have gone into my PO savings account as I certainly never had a War Savings Certificate.

[villa66]

Looking at this War Savings card printed in 1918 I found images of the Edward VII Crown...

Is there a piece of a 2 in the exergue, or is there a difference between the Edwardian and Victorian St. George reverse?

v.

[malj1]

Is there a piece of a 2 in the exergue, or is there a difference between the Edwardian and Victorian St. George reverse?

v.

No, no trace of the date - it is hidden.
I just looked through my crowns and see Victoria JH and OH share the same reverse [even George VI Festival of Britain is the same] and all signed BM so could be any of them.

[villa66]

Thanks much. Just wanted to know how specific or general I needed to be when describing it. (The US also had similar items during WWII--but the ones I've seen are nowhere near this interesting.)

v.

[malj1]

Today I won the Australian variety on eBay so...

...watch this space!

[malj1]

Here is the Australian version from WW1, similar but 35 stamps i/o 31. 17/6 opposed to 15/6! Only three years.

[malj1]

I have now obtained a later card, an unused card from the 1932 printing, this must be the type of card I used at school. [1944]



I also had a Post Office money box or 'Home Safe' as they called it and have just acquired this advertising flyer referring to these.



And here is the real thing, a little worse for wear after seventy odd years and my childish attempts to get it open - I later made a key to fit. My brother had a green one and my sister a silver; a special edition issued for the Silver Jubilee in 1935, born in 1943 she was fortunate to receive a surrendered one.

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Compare with this item.

Peter

[malj1]

Compare with this item.

Peter

Very similar to that one is this one from Barclay's Bank Limited. Repeated cleaning with Brasso over many years has almost removed the name!
Around the box are slits for the various coins to be inserted. Unlocking the lock on top allows an inner aluminium container to be removed.

...sometime I surprise myself!