Recycling changes...

Cue

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As a kid taking bottles back was a major part of your income. A good idea thrown to the wind by plastic which now thoroughly infects the sea. I shouldn't really say this because I never declared to the tax man all the thruppences I received .... :|

Letter from HMRC is on its way. Due to inflation and interest you now owe the taxman £5134.29
 

BobClay

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I'm going to have a lot of trouble lifting this sack of thruppeny bits to pay that off. I need a fork lift. :eek:

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EasMid

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Best time was when the shop would store the bottles out the back, on full view of every kid passing. You'd swipe a couple, never anymore or the lady behind the counter would catch on, get the money back. Do that a few times a week and you'd soon have enough buy a bottle of pop for yrsen!
We had to climb the wall at the Nesbit to get their pop bottles. We loved it when the clocks went back.
 
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Gramaisc

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There are no time limits in UK criminal law for the prosecution of these sorts of offences.

I wonder if there are any rewards going for information?
 

Trumpet

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Best time was when the shop would store the bottles out the back, on full view of every kid passing. You'd swipe a couple, never anymore or the lady behind the counter would catch on, get the money back. Do that a few times a week and you'd soon have enough buy a bottle of pop for yrsen!
Happy days.
 

c0tt0nt0p

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E jars and bottles with a 5p refundable deposit like the old thruppence on the bottle.
In the 80's and early 90's my parents used to enter competitions on a massive scale (biggest prize they ever won was 20000 air miles). One of the comps they entered was for Cinzano but required bottle tops to enter. I was duly sent off to trawl the local bottle banks for the said items !!
 

The Hawk

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Bob, It must have been much easier when you were younger and it was the round silver threepenny bits at less than a quarter of the weight of those new dodecagonal nickel brass ones !
I believe silver threepences are still legal money (but not brass ones). As, along with the fourpence (groat), they had/have Maundy money equivalents, the 3d and 4d coins were, at decimilisation, remonitised/recycled into 3p and 4p value coins respectively.

Of course, if you have any, you would be mad to try and spend them at their new face value, as they are worth far more as collectors' items. I'm not sure many places would accept them either (although I will be happy to take them at their current face value).
 

Mudgie

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I believe silver threepences are still legal money (but not brass ones). As, along with the fourpence (groat), they had/have Maundy money equivalents, the 3d and 4d coins were, at decimilisation, remonitised/recycled into 3p and 4p value coins respectively.

Of course, if you have any, you would be mad to try and spend them at their new face value, as they are worth far more as collectors' items. I'm not sure many places would accept them either (although I will be happy to take them at their current face value).
I think only the silver Maundy threepenny coins from 1971 onwards (3p) are legal tender but it'd be daft spending one as the silver's worth about 60p, and the coin much more.
The silver ones in normal use for three old pence (3d) had a different design, three acorns and oak leaves if I remember correctly.
 

Gramaisc

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Ireland never went polygonal with the 3d coin. This style remained in use until 1971.

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Interestingly, perhaps, their 6d coin had a name, like the 'shilling', 'florin' and 'half crown' - and the 3d coin's inscription actually means 'half a sixpence'.

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Mudgie

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Ireland never went polygonal with the 3d coin. This style remained in use until 1971.

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Interestingly, perhaps, their 6d coin had a name, like the 'shilling', 'florin' and 'half crown' - and the 3d coin's inscription actually means 'half a sixpence'.

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And "Half a sixpence" would be a good name for a musical someone decided in the 1960s.
 

The Hawk

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I think only the silver Maundy threepenny coins from 1971 onwards (3p) are legal tender but it'd be daft spending one as the silver's worth about 60p, and the coin much more.
The silver ones in normal use for three old pence (3d) had a different design, three acorns and oak leaves if I remember correctly.
For many years the Maundy coins and general circulation silver equivalents (3d and 4d) were identical. It was only when we moved away from silver coinage in general circulation that the differences appeared. So when the Coinage Act 1971 preserved the status (and enhanced the value of those pre-decimal Maundy coins), it effectively preserved the status of its general circulation equivalents.

There were a few other coins which survived decimalisation, and whilst many have disappeared since, a few are still technically available to spend.

If you wanted to, you could technically spend one of these still today for its face value of 20p:

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Mudgie

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For many years the Maundy coins and general circulation silver equivalents (3d and 4d) were identical. It was only when we moved away from silver coinage in general circulation that the differences appeared. So when the Coinage Act 1971 preserved the status (and enhanced the value of those pre-decimal Maundy coins), it effectively preserved the status of its general circulation equivalents.

There were a few other coins which survived decimalisation, and whilst many have disappeared since, a few are still technically available to spend.

If you wanted to, you could technically spend one of these still today for its face value of 20p:

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I don't think that double-florin and many coins since are legal tender.
Only acceptable now I think are the 1p and 2p since 1971, 5p since 1990, 10p since 1992, 20p since 1982, 50p since 1997, £1 since 2017, £2 since 1997 and Maundy coins since 1971 - i.e. everything since decimalisation except the older larger 5p, 10p and 50p and the older single metal £1 and £2.
 
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