Fandando got me working on this one. Being a Brit, born in 1946, of course I know what a penny is. I grew up with them, those pieces of copper and we could buy things with them. As a kid I remember the penny chew, bought in a corner shop. For just a peny you could buy a simple sweet and chew on it for hours.
When I saw this I was sure I had a penny somewhere in my Anglo-Swiss home and yes, I found one, probably given to me by my dad on one of his visits as a memory. This penny shows King George V.
On the other side of the penny you can see Britannia, one of our british heroes probably. We always sang “Britannia rules the waves” so she must have been special. You can also see the date of this coin. so it was quite old. I thiink pennies were made until we had Queen Elizabeth, although eventuially they were replaced by the 2D (2 penny) even the penny lost its value eventually.
I spent about five munutes cleaning this penny and polishing a little, as I found it in my collection of English money, which has mostly been replaced by our newer decimal system. Being away from England the past 58 years, I am now a little out of date.
