Penny Dreadful - Currency Discussion

[Touring Mars]

I got a Sherlock 50p yesterday.

I got one in my change of Saturday evening - it totally made my day.

Unfortunately it has put me in something of a quandary as a Japanese friend of mine is obsessed with Sherlock Holmes and has just come back from a trip to London where he visited Baker Street for the first time. I should ask him if he has the Sherlock 50p and offer it to him if he hasn't already got one...

 

[Liquid]

@Touring Mars I went through my coin collection collating the 50ps I have:

Britannia x11 (9 of which are 1997)
New Shield x3
100 years of Girlguiding x2
150 years of Public Libraries
Battle of Britain
2012 Olympics - Football & Offside
100th anniversary of the birth of Christopher Ironside
Victoria Cross
Victoria Cross Heroic Acts
Beatrix Potter

So 9/24 are 1997 Britannias, not quite the 60% estimate but at 38% still quite large representation... of coins I have intentionally kept.

That's not including the old, thicker 50ps but I swear I have more tucked away somewhere though because at one point I had four of the Dictionary 50ps.

 

[LancerEvo7]

I have a small lot of foreign change on the way, has two Britannia 50ps (one is 1997 and I'm going to make the safe assumption that the other is too) and this Victoria Cross one:

 

[Liquid]

@LancerEvo7 That is the VC Heroic Actions 50p. There is another with just the VC itself as the design.

 

[LancerEvo7]

@LancerEvo7 That is the VC Heroic Actions 50p. There is another with just the VC itself as the design.

Thanks for that, most references I've used just list them as 'Victoria Cross' and 'Soldier.' Always wondered if there was a specific name for the Soldier one.