Ever pondered the life of a coin?

[VTEC_DOHC]

Right, this is going to sound sad but I was making some din dins the other day and was rooting around in my pockets for anything I could find and chanced apon on old looking 10p. I just thought to myself how many people this little chunk of metal had been in the possession of over it's life, and where it had been.

Must have been in more pockets than your average gold digger.

[MrFlibbles]

VTEC_DOHC said:

EVER PONDERED THE LIFE OF A COIN?

Yep.

[alcad]

I seem to remember a film being made depicting the life of a coin.....i think?

[Flat in Fifth]

Average life of a coin is 40 years apparently.

[Eric Mc]

We used to have to write essays on such things when we were kids at school.

The average lifespan might be 40 years, but don't forget that the very oldest current British coin can't be more than 34 years old.

[Wacky Racer]

I used to spend ages as a young kid searching for a 1933 penny............

www.24carat.co.uk/1933pennyframe.html

[Byff]

I have the basis of a short film based around the life of a pound coin. Unfortunately, I can't write a script for toffee so reckon it'll stay an idea forever, unless Los Angeles wants to do it for me

[simpo two]

Byff said:

I have the basis of a short film based around the life of a pound coin. Unfortunately, I can't write a script for toffee so reckon it'll stay an idea forever, unless Los Angeles wants to do it for me

I write scripts...

[love machine]

I was looking at a Cartwheel 2p 1797 and thought "What motivated people to keep this?"

I think it was about a weeks wages then. Pretty much what it is worth now (in good order).

Ever pondered the life of a coin? How definitively phlegmatic!

[alan_driver]

There is a website to track notes. Enter the barcode see if anyone has reported owning it aswell. I would do it myself, but I would be here for ages (i wish).

[pesty]

coins? they have a boring life unless you count being used for scratch cards

What are the odds that everyone on pistinheads has at one time had teh same coin?

anyway bank notes they have an interesting life. If £20 pound notes arnt being rolled up and shoved up ppls noses they are being destroyed


"More than £15 million worth of banknotes are being destroyed each year because they are so heavily contaminated with cocaine, heroin or ecstasy that they cannot be put back into circulation.

The notes are seized by police and customs officers during raids on the homes of drug-dealers or money-launderers and the contamination occurs because the money is in contact with people who are constantly handling or regularly taking drugs.

In most instances the destruction is merely a precaution, but in several recent cases the levels of contamination have been so high the money has been considered a health hazard. "

[Zorro]

I have a mint condition 1904 Gold Sovereign given to me on my 18th by my Grandmother. Thought about it's history but other than that no.

It would have been made into a ring by now if I was Kappa'd up with my Burberry baseball cap, scarf and jaykit with a stolen maxxed up corsa in the street.

[Size Nine Elm]

Zorro said:

I have a mint condition 1904 Gold Sovereign given to me on my 18th by my Grandmother. Thought about it's history but other than that no. It would have been made into a ring by now if I was Kappa'd up with my Burberry baseball cap, scarf and jaykit with a stolen maxxed up corsa in the street.

Ive got an 18xx groat somewhere. Maybe I should ask it about its life...

[simpo two]

Zorro said:

I have a mint condition 1904 Gold Sovereign given to me on my 18th by my Grandmother.

Ha - Zorro is 119 y/o