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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kev Murphy on February 14, 2016, 03:06:11 PM

Title: Doesn't seem like 50 years...
Post by: Kev Murphy on February 14, 2016, 03:06:11 PM: ... have passed since decimal currency was introduced on this day in 1966.

I used to have a reasonable collection of pre-decimal coins and notes, until my ex partners son stole them about ten years ago.
Title: Re: Doesn't seem like 50 years...
Post by: Draco (Heartbreak Kid) on February 14, 2016, 08:17:20 PM: Quote from: Kev Murphy on February 14, 2016, 03:06:11 PM
... have passed since decimal currency was introduced on this day in 1966.

I used to have a reasonable collection of pre-decimal coins and notes, until my ex partners son stole them about ten years ago.

:OldMan yea my brother pinched over 500 of mine i had collected demolishing old houses in Cobar, Broken Hill and Nygan :|||| >:() :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Doesn't seem like 50 years...
Post by: Wild Rose on February 15, 2016, 12:05:13 AM: I still got a few tucked away for safe keeping
I don't know if they will be worth anything much one day :popcorn
Title: Re: Doesn't seem like 50 years...
Post by: Draco (Heartbreak Kid) on February 15, 2016, 12:09:21 AM: Quote from: Wild Rose on February 15, 2016, 12:05:13 AM
I still got a few tucked away for safe keeping
I don't know if they will be worth anything much one day :popcorn

Eventually they will be :like
Title: Re: Doesn't seem like 50 years...
Post by: Wild Rose on February 15, 2016, 01:08:31 AM: Quote from: Draco7 on February 15, 2016, 12:09:21 AM
Quote from: Wild Rose on February 15, 2016, 12:05:13 AM
I still got a few tucked away for safe keeping
I don't know if they will be worth anything much one day :popcorn

Eventually they will be :like

I got a few round 50c pieces tucked away also, I think they are starting to be worth a bit more than their 50c value
Title: Re: Doesn't seem like 50 years...
Post by: Kev Murphy on February 15, 2016, 07:27:05 AM: Currently, circulated round 50s are worth around $4.50, mint condition uncirculated about $12.50 each.

I had 15 in mint condition until the boy found my stash, and swapped them each for a ciggy at school. :fp :||||

Real clever.

About as smart as a dust bunny.
Title: Re: Doesn't seem like 50 years...
Post by: Philbo on February 15, 2016, 07:37:46 AM: You've gotta let it go Kev,
Breathe
Phil
Title: Re: Doesn't seem like 50 years...
Post by: Brock on February 15, 2016, 05:58:01 PM: I hear your pain Kev, about 40 years ago, My Dad traded in his 55 Chev (with the 6 cylinder engine) on a Marina TC...

I never let him forget that, but cant remind him about it any more.

You reading this Dad????
Title: Re: Doesn't seem like 50 years...
Post by: Biggles on February 15, 2016, 06:43:09 PM: A Morris Marina, eh! 1971, according to Google.
Now that was a memorable trade. Ergh!

There sure have been some lemons in the auto industry!
Title: Re: Doesn't seem like 50 years...
Post by: Brock on February 15, 2016, 07:05:22 PM: There was nothing wrong with the Chev...

Oh, you mean the gutless no good in a cross wind Marina....

And it was around 76, we still had the Chev in 71, and 72. The trade was after he moved to Perth, I had been in the Airforce a few years by then.
Title: Re: Doesn't seem like 50 years...
Post by: richo on February 15, 2016, 07:10:51 PM: Our fathers could have been good mates my father voluntarily bought a marina. It is the only car I know that was allergic to water. The slightest hint of moisture in the air and it had more short circuits than you would think possible. To this day it is still a standing joke (along side beta tapes for the vcr).
Title: Re: Doesn't seem like 50 years...
Post by: Diesel on February 15, 2016, 08:55:57 PM: I kept my 1929 pennies - because that was the year of the great depression - but I threw out all my 1930 pennies because nothing much happened in that year! :eek :p
Title: Re: Doesn't seem like 50 years...
Post by: Kev Murphy on February 15, 2016, 10:20:36 PM: Quote from: Diesel on February 15, 2016, 08:55:57 PM
I kept my 1929 pennies - because that was the year of the great depression - but I threw out all my 1930 pennies because nothing much happened in that year! :eek :p

... excxept a shortage of pennies :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl