You know you've been in the US too long when...
#76
Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
Hmmm, odd. I thought they were in circulation before I left; I guess not.
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I know, because if they were, I'd have taken a full set over here with me and would have made them into some kind of display
#80
Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
When your mum tells you about the cool first day covers that came out and it takes you a while to realise she's talking about the stamps and the sets.
I don't know why she still gets them, habit I guess, but my brothers been dead almost 11 years but he used to collect stamps and she'd send him the sets.
I don't know why she still gets them, habit I guess, but my brothers been dead almost 11 years but he used to collect stamps and she'd send him the sets.
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Re: You know you've been in the US too long when...
your mild aspergers manifests itself as sad coin collecting or some equally creepy obsession.
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Out here my new one is glass and porcelain power line insulators ...
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#87
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I did that with the old money when I was a nipper. Right proud of it I was.
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I particularly liked pre-decimal coins. Shillings were easy enough to find in circulation as 5p pieces but I had a nice collection of thruppeny bits and sixpences and a few of the old big penny coins.
#89
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Well, sixpences stayed in circulation until, I think, 1978 as a 2 1/2p coin, though no decimal ones were minted. I guess using threepenny bits as 1 1/4p coins would have been a bit too much, though!
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I was born in 1979, so I missed that one. Plus they did away with the 1/2p in 1985 anyway, hence it being easier for me to find shillings.