Down in Drury Lane there are naughty women, They will give you what you want if you give ?em a shilling. Soldiers, half-a-crown, Sailors half-a-Guinea, Big fat men, two-pound-ten, little kids, a penny.
OT - old stamps for new?
Nov 23, 2022
Last reply: 3 years ago
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We followed the instructions and returned a load of old (some very old) stamps to be replaced by new.
Some had face values in pence.
We received a single First Class stamp and a note that the stamps had no value.
Which is not really logical.
Anyway, has anyone else succeeded in swapping old stamps for new?
Cheers
Dave R
yes, the 1st/2nd/1st-large were all replaced stamp-for-stamp, then I got a bundle of new 20p and 1p stamps adding up to the amount of 19p and 1p I'd sent them.
If you mean that their values were pre-decimal, then they haven't been valid for years.
Pre-decimal would be pennies, not pence.
No. Either - Pre war tuppeny was an adjective, tuppence was a noun
No one ever said 'three and 6 pennies' It was three-and-sixpence. But then 3d was a 'thruppenny bit' showing that penny was used as an adjective
To rephrase that, if the face value was shown in pence (p), it was post-decimal. Pre-decimal value would have been shown in pennies (d).
post them
The deadline for swapping them has gone back to July 2023 anyway
Pence is the plural of penny - both pre- and post- decimalisation. I have a collection of pre-decimalisation coins. It includes a Threepence and a sixpence.
Before 196x tuppence was 2d.
Before, it was penny, pennies, pence.
After, it was new penny etc. A new penny was worth 2.4 old pennies. Eventually, the "new" was dropped.
So now, it it also penny, pennies, pence.
1971 surely?
Tim
Yes, but some of the new coins were already in circulation in 1970. I remember that because in 1970 I left the UK, and was away for 25 years.
Yes. 1966 in Australia, St Valentine's Day, I believe.
Whatever! :-) I'm getting too old to remember exact dates.
Do you have a scan or photo of the other stamps submitted?
Has it? I didn't see any announcement about that. I was planning to trade in any that are not used up sending Xmas cards and presents.
I don't trust sending things through the post clearly labelled "Steal me
- cash inside" and due to Brexit and Covid I still have quite lot of high value airmail to Europe stamps surplus to requirements.
February 15th, 1971.
It may be just me, but if I bought a 6d stamp, it was a six penny stamp, not a sixpence stamp. If I bought a 4p stamp, it was a four pence stamp, not a four penny stamp.
Fourpny stamp, also thrupny bit.
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