Why Is The UK 2 Pence Coin So Big? A Rambling Look At British Currency

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bThe value of Your 2P coin/b - people keep commenting to say they have a 2 pence coin and ask how much it's worthbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrIt's about 2 pence
Comment from : Atomic Shrimp

All this makes me realize how stable US money has been for all of my yearly-70 years While there have been design changes and silver stopped being used for coins in 1964 or so (which I remember, because the old and new coins sounded different when dropped), nothing significant has happened Attempts to replace paper money with coins has never been allowed due to widespread whining, and pennies (1c) are still made despite being nearly worthless For years I’ve paid for everything with credit cards so actual currency rarely enters my life anymore
Comment from : hebneh

Because, Tcheatcher, YES
Comment from : Dale Cooper

I would think it would come down to what the coin is made of
Comment from : Donny Rockford

The old £1 coins were horrendous for fakes I still remember as a kid trying to get my hands on some snacks from the school vending machine, and about half the kids’ coins were fakes! brbrI don’t think I’ve ever had a new £ coin rejected from a machine, a great change from the “just scratch it on the side of the machine” standard of my childhood
Comment from : Tyler Beaumont

British society is like a free-to-play RPG
Comment from : Rón

Very interesting We migrated to Australia when I was very young but I still remember the song (to the tune of Click Go the Shears) when we moved from the pound to the dollar on 🎶The fourteenth of February, nineteen sixty-six🎶
Comment from : Hilary Los

I recently found out I had been keeping an old i1968 LARGE 10p/i coin in my room I must have found it years back and thought it was a regular 10p coin that had rusted a bitbrIt wasn't until I found it that I realised the year and the bsize/b of itbrI'm pretty chuffed about it It's now in my collection of old coins, along with my inew half pennies/i and pre-decimalised coins
Comment from : la gerku

Bonita moeda tenho 2 de 1930 Portugal
Comment from : Vitor Roseta

One and two pence not even copper now ! I think steel, they rust to sh*t👎
Comment from : Rave Dave

Size of coins today annoying mish mash ! 5p smaller than 2p, 20p smaller than 10p, £1 smaller than 50p For f**k sake, surely bigger the value of coin, the bigger the size !!!
Comment from : Rave Dave

Coins lasted very long time before went decimal Common in sixties to get in change queen Victoria pennys !
Comment from : Rave Dave

Bring base 240 back
Comment from : Rodox 28

You forgot the 1/4 farthing 1/3 farthing and the 1/2 farthing and the noble and the groat but I don't expect most people have heard of them 😂
Comment from : Free Speech Central

The old 1 pence coin was huge
Comment from : Jamie Hughes

Hearing the double florin being called the barmaids grief makes me think about being a cashier and using our old canadian penny Too bad we never came up with a snazzy nickname
Comment from : Jake Garvin

👍
Comment from : (syahril iman)

Wear do you go to cash them in at
Comment from : Debbie Hammer

I have
Comment from : Immi Khan

Also the three penny piece locks into the indent on the one pound perfectlybrbrYou also missed the fact that the old 10p and two shillings are the exact same size as a new £2 coin
Comment from : Madyotto Yotto

very interesting!
Comment from : YoshiNuss

very well done, so interesting
Comment from : gramule

No wonder the colonialists revolted
Comment from : James Taylor

huge like 👍
Comment from : johnny b

I always thought it was for blind people to tell the difference to check they are not being short changed, very fascinating to learn the real reasons!
Comment from : TheDutyFree - TDF

There was a silver three pence that was smaller than the six pence
Comment from : y11971alex

Canadian here I'm so bloody confused by your coinage up until recent metric coins I'm so used to dealing with money that can be divided by 10s and 100s etc
Comment from : Apple Gal

I was aware of many but not all of these pre-D-Day coins probably because I was born in '92 Even still I had at least noticed all of the other feature designs happening throughout the 2000s My claim to fame is that I was born at a time when Scotland still put out £1 notes
Comment from : ViceNorVirtue

Did you happen to have all these old coins/notes on hand or did you acquire them for the video?
Comment from : S K

Superb excellent video and congratulation on the information
Comment from : Gul Fraz Majeed

Malta used to be a British colony, and thus used British currency The naming of the currency in Maltese gets even wierder As far as I know a farthing couldn't be split down further, however in Maltese, a half penny used to be called "6 ħabbiet" and a farthing "3 ħabbiet"
Comment from : Daniel Sultana

Wow! There was a time when metal was used for money not music
Comment from : Ggdivhjkjl

Am I right in thinking that there were also a few novelty £100 coins, that were massively oversized, purely commemorative, but still technically legal tender?
Comment from : JarCast

I saw a hapenny in a 2p machine once they are the same size
Comment from : heidi horler

The decimal 1/2p were tiny
Comment from : Chris Budesa

I may be an odd duck, but honestly I have NEVER found old money to be odd or hard to understand 12p to a shilling, 20 shillings to a pound, 240p to a pound Never found it hard to follow (with the odd names all being coins or notes worth a certain number of pence) I even think the story of giuneas is just fantastic A big part of me wishes I had grown up with them instead of the comparatively dull 100p to a £ I do Miss the days when there were Francs, Pesetas, Deutschmarks and Lira etc compared to the souless EurobrbrPlus I genuinely think that being able to divide your currency into smaller units is a genuinely good thing for prices etc
Comment from : FightingFitPT PCG

Very interesting
Comment from : Ecospider5

At around 5:00 is that the new style tiny 5p coin or the older larger one?
Comment from : Ho Chi Minh City Drives

Born in 1982 but give me LSD all day! Also bring back the Groat
Comment from : Joshua Bell

This is making me want to upgrade my coin collection even faster
Comment from : Nyx Doble

Really intersting story indeed When i went to visit London for the first time a few years ago, I found it really hard to pick the right coin as not beeing used to Pounds and due to the different aize ratios compared to Euro coins 😵‍💫😅
Comment from : sea75300

2:55 so THAT'S what's been up Mean Mr Mustard's nose
Comment from : Frank Things

intersting
Comment from : Super Rob

I have onecoin in 1980 I'm From Bangladesh how can i sell it
Comment from : omor khan

sir ihove that cion
Comment from : CHANGLEE BOY

This is extremely complicated As an American I’ve never heard of this 240 pence equals 1 pound That seems insane to me At least it was changed
Comment from : Akotski1338

Very interesting! Shared to my Facebook group Feed Yourself for £1 a day as this seemd quite appropriate Nostalgia for my but a bit of history for the younger members
Comment from : Pat Parker

"We like our nostalgia" :) Double florin (1887-1890) and full crown (1818-1981) are still legal tender and nostalgia is about tripence 25p is of a size of pre 1979 US dollar :)
Comment from : tokul76

Who does your editing, it's so good!
Comment from : Mothballjim

what about Northern Ireland, overseas territories, crown dependencies?
Comment from : noah simpson

ELIZABETH II D G REG F D 1979 10 NEW PENCE HAMARE PAS HYE HYDERABAD INDIA
Comment from : ayaz khan

Thank God I was not born a Britoner!
Comment from : John De Sade

This vid is so interesting, ty Shrimp great content as always, When I was little (early 80s) My dad made me a bracelet of half pennies, I still have it <3
Comment from : Bracken

Tengo one penny 1937brGeorgivs vl
Comment from : Jose Eduardo Vargas

Far enough back there's were also other coins, the silver threepence, the Groat (fourpence) and I'm the 1700s there was a tuppence Currencies are so interesting
Comment from : thehoneybadger1223

La de la mano derecha la tengo con la misma letra todo buen estado
Comment from : Francisco Nicolas Nicoletti

De la mano derecha la tengo la chiquitita sabe yo la tengo cuánto podría valer
Comment from : Francisco Nicolas Nicoletti

La mordidita la mano izquierda la tengo cuánto podría valer
Comment from : Francisco Nicolas Nicoletti

Tengo la que se pega en el imán
Comment from : Francisco Nicolas Nicoletti

De la mano izquierda dónde empieza el programa esa moneda las tengo y otra más Qué valor podría estar
Comment from : Francisco Nicolas Nicoletti

Hola amigo tengo 6 moneditas de esa soy de Argentina Latinoamérica no entiendo mucho pero me doy cuenta muy lindo programa saludos
Comment from : Francisco Nicolas Nicoletti

When the farthing was removed in 1960, it was worth the equivalent of 6p in 2021 according to BOE's inflation calculator
Comment from : Tent Sco

Gostava que fosse fem Português todos os cumentarios obrigada
Comment from : Alice Matos

What a super interesting and informative videowell done
Comment from : James Patterson

How much is the coin on the right at 9:25 worth?br1/4 of a British pound?brAbout 35 cents US?
Comment from : spikefivefivefive

Hola amigo buenos días buen trabajo guste del vídeo y de las monedas gracias por compartir un abrazo 👏👏👏👌👍👌😊
Comment from : Roberto Pérez Catalán

'Silver six pence was supposed to be withdrawn'brbrIt is not silver since 1947 and 1966 coin in image was cupro nickel
Comment from : tokul76

Here from USA 🇺🇸
Comment from : regu

Sir,Are you still buying 2pence coin?
Comment from : Fritz

I have it
Comment from : Kelum Aravinda Wanninayake

Lol the psychological ploy to make fiat 1 pound currency coins resemble the allure of real money
Comment from : EF

@9:03 made me LOL! thats was clever!
Comment from : Sal M

I have 2000 lot old coini wont sale itsome one tell me plase 👍
Comment from : Kelum Aravinda Wanninayake

Hola si tengo moneda de 20 centavo Euro y de 2 centavo Euro como 10 centavos Elizabet 11 centavo de 25 centavo un decimo deElizabet de 5 centavo Dolar Elizabet centavo Canada gracias por su informacion
Comment from : Ernesto Jose Acevedo

I have lots of 2p coins and where can I sell them
Comment from : Mariano Rodrigues

I have a 1 conin 2 pence 1987brhow much??
Comment from : Shuhel Talukder

It’s because modern money is slowly becoming worthless it rots easily and made from worthless shit our money is worthless
Comment from : Good question

I have that coins
Comment from : Santos Ragunjan

Can you do video on 50 pence from 60s& 70s is there any value collectable with 50 pence thank you !❤️🤍💙😊
Comment from : Toy chica UwU

Good bless
Comment from : Tv All

i have 2p1971
Comment from : Md Rubel

I have Elizabeth 1983 for sell
Comment from : Ghabii have 2002 Ghabii

All those complications make my head spin I think I'd need to play this back twenty or thirty times to get it all straight And three different Scottish 'banks' issuing pound notes? Once again a great video by Mr Shrimp
Comment from : Harold Beck

Merhaba Elizabeth ,Pençe bende var ,satılık ,Teshekkurler
Comment from : Ogulgul Gazakowa

As a "senior citizen" I remember the farthing and most of the pre-decimal coins but I don't recall ever seeing a full crown
Comment from : Philip Fletcher

The brass 3d was short-lived, Introduced in 1947 to replace a silver coin, which was half the size of the 6d or 'tanner' and was abolished 1971 because of decimalisation, so it was only in use for 24 years It was nicknamed the 'joey' brThe plural of penny can be pence or pennies depending on context It is pence when describing a price such as six pence, but peenies when referring to a number of coins, for instance four pennies I use the present tence because this applies to both old and new currencies
Comment from : Michael Haywood