This was voted as the best joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival recently. This made me smile so I am sharing it with you here! If the USA ever changes any coins, you will be able to recycle this one!
Now...this begs the question...WHAT new pound coin? I remember when they did away with the one pound note in the UK and replaced it with the dear little gold coin. (Around about 1985, I think.) Could I love the new coin as much? I looked it up. It is gold colored and silver colored and has 12 sides and...oh look, let me see if I can find it for you...
"The most secure coin in the world" is how the Royal Mint describes it. It has quite a few security features...here is a video for you! Richard had already told me that it was like the old "thripenny bit" but we noticed that the announcer pronounced it "three penny". So, my friends in the UK...tell me, how would you say this word? The way Richard says it, it sounds like "thrip-nee".
Sometimes when I visit England, I will have some coins in my coin purse from past visits, and when I count out the change at a shop, the cashier will hand one of the coins back to me and tell me that that particular coin is no longer accepted! Well, honey, you should come to America! We hardly ever change our coins! However, my fellow Americans, if we ever do, I have the joke for you above.
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Richard and I have enjoyed seeing the egrets at our walks at Panola Mountain but now, we think they have moved on. We will miss them. Hopefully, we will see them there again one day!
Those coins remind me of our Susan B Anthonys. The egrets are gorgeous. What I wonder is does one threepenny coin count as three in the fountain?
ReplyDeleteNo one wanted to use the Susan B. Anthony coin because they didn't like the way she looked on the coin and no one wants to use the Native American one because the young woman on it looks so good! There is a real resistance to using one dollar coins in the USA but if they did away with the one dollar bill, we would be forced to!
DeleteThis "sorry, we no longer accept this" has happened to me once before in England, even though I come back every year. I think it was a 20 pound note. Thankfully, my sister-in-law helped me out by swapping my old note for a current one; she later took the old note to her bank who had no trouble exchanging it for a new one.
ReplyDeleteYes, it said in the video to take your coins to the bank or to donate them. I love the charity shops in England, don't you? If I have any old pound coins, I will take them to England and donate them. :-)
DeleteI'll never forget my teenage nieces giggles when we were in a shop in Edinburgh and I handed a handful of change over to pay for something, saying, "I'm not sure how to count this up." He said, "It counts up the same as yours." :) That new pound coin is pretty, I think.
ReplyDeleteIt might count up the same, but I am with you with trying to figure it out when you are standing in front of a register with folks behind you! :-)
DeleteI also like the new coin. Anybody who doesn't care for them can just send them all to me! LOL!
Yes, it is a nice coin. And the 3d coin's pronounced "thripny" for some reason!
ReplyDeleteYes! Jenny Woolf, you should contact the Royal Mint and tell them how to pronounce it! And "thripny" is the perfect way to spell the way that you and Richard say this, I couldn't think of a way to let my readers know!
DeleteI don't know anything about the money change, but that is a pretty coin. We've recently gone through the new quarters (one of each state), the new nickel, and the new dollars with safety stripe. I don't know if that is a big change, but it's different. I always look for the old pennies..I have quite a few. Everyone overlooks pennies like they are worthless. :) I am a penny pincher though. HA HA
ReplyDeleteYears ago, I visited my sister in Denver and she took us to the Denver Mint and we saw all the designs for each quarter and the years that each one would be released. I like the State quarters very much. I also like the new 100 dollar bill, that has the "denim" stripe on it! I like to keep the pennies that have "one cent" on the back. You are talking to the biggest penny pincher in the USA!
DeleteI don't mind the new pound coins in the UK but I do not like the new plastic £5 pound notes at all. Apparently all our paper notes will soon be the same and they creep out your pockets far too easily if not placed in a wallet. Nearly lost a new fiver on more than one occasion that way coming out the shops so I get rid of them fast now when I get them as change.
ReplyDeleteThey came out with the 5 pound note when we were there in September last year but I couldn't find one anywhere. I wanted to see what a plastic note would look like! See my comment above, you are welcome to save all your five pound notes for me! LOL!
DeleteCoins are fun to me, and i wish the US would embrace $1 and $2 coins, they could last so much longer than paper.
ReplyDeleteWell...I was going to mention that most other major countries only use coins as a replacement for their first note...in other words, if we replaced the dollar bill with a dollar coin, it would save a lot of money. Coins last so much longer than paper money. (Which is called paper, but is not paper at all but a combo of cloth and something else, can't think of it right now!)
DeleteI keep my change from foreign travels too, Kay, although so far I haven't run into anyone not accepting my change. I get a kick out of Canada's coins ~ they no longer use pennies ~ Oh yeah, I forgot that they don't take pennies coins anymore, although they use pennies on charge cards. And Canada has Loonies ($1) and Toonies ($2) ~ Canadians are so not serious about money, LOL! I used to collect American silver dollars to share with my kiddos at school. The one place I could count on getting them was in Las Vegas. Fortunately the UK and Canada have lighter dollar/pound coins! Have a good one!
ReplyDeleteI want to go to Canada and use some Loonies and Toonies! I have a fond memory of the Kennedy silver half dollars. I had a lunch lady who would save them for me at school and give them to me as change when I paid for my lunch. She knew I liked them.
DeleteTake care, Louise!
Before decimal currency became the current currency here in the Land of Oz, we used to pronounced three pence..."thrip-ence". Well, most did, anyway...it was the most common pronunciation.
ReplyDeleteThat is the way that you said it in Australia too, that is interesting. Someone from Australia should have been the announcer on the video! :-)
DeleteYes, always loved the little Australian silver coin we called thrippence :) I like the new UK pound, very stylish and modern. And the egrets are totally beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe new pound coin is nice, isn't it? Wish I was in England right now spending some of them! :-)
DeleteI used to have a collection of foreign coins back when I was in college and gave them to my youngest brother later on. This one has a nice shape though and it must have a meaning to it. You take care! :)
ReplyDeleteThat was nice of you to give your brother your coin collection! Made me feel old to know to remember when the last time they changed the pound in England. Oh well!
DeleteTake care yourself, thanks for your comment. :-)
The old pound coins were being widely counterfeited. Something had to be done. Ironically, in spite of innovative security features, the new pound coin is already being faked quite successfully. I wish I knew how to do it but I'll stick with producing fake £50 notes. More lucrative.
ReplyDeleteJust looked it up and it said that it is possible that they will do away with the 50 pound note! (Have to type it out, don't have the pound sign on my computer.)
DeleteSo...I would suggest that you spend those 50's soon!
It seems to me that the counterfeiters always find a way.
I loved the British coins I used when I was there in 1967, especially the three penny one.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to have been there in the swinging 60's!
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