The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 40, October 7, 2007, Article 20

GRANVYL HULSE'S FUN FARTHING FIND

Last week Bob Lyall wrote: "I recall youngsters collected
British pennies out of circulation by date until we went
decimal.  That was one way youngsters started to collect
coins; sadly, there is no interest in collecting like
that now as the oldest coin in circulation will be 1970's
whereas pre-decimalisation we could find Victorian coins
still circulating."

This week, Granvyl Hulse writes: "Bob's last comment
struck a memory cord. I started collecting when I was
in England back in the early '60's. Following an American
custom I would go to a local bank each Friday, pick up
a Five Pound bag of pennies, and on Saturday afternoon
while watching the races on TV I would go through the
bag looking for the odd coin I needed for my collection.
The coins were in five shilling paper sacks. I had extra
pennies so if I took one from a sack I put in one to
replace it. When I was finished I marked the bag with
a piece of chalk and then took it back to the bank the
next Friday and asked for another.

"I had been doing this for a number of months when the
teller asked me if I was interested in half-pennies as
they had sacks of them in the basement that had not seen
the light of day in years. I said that I was, took a Five
Pound sack home with me, and on Saturday afternoon I found
that I had died and gone to heaven. The half-penny bags
were loaded with farthings, many of them pre-Victorian
that dated back into the early 1800's. This got me hooked
on farthings which today are my only collecting interest."

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