As bitter Remainers rant about 50p coins, who are the fruitcakes and loonies now?

UK Daily Mail ^ | Februay 1, 2020 | Dan Hodges

[C19fan]

Donny Eberhid was embracing his freedom. ‘I’m liberated,’ he told me, proudly flourishing his Union flag over Parliament Square. His friend Tracey Chandler concurred. ‘Nothing was getting done. I was so angry. Then Boris came in and sorted it out.’ Britannia – not her real name – had been on a different journey. ‘I voted Remain,’ she explained, ‘but I’m here as a patriot. I believe in democracy.’ Her costume wasn’t quite as elaborate as it seemed. ‘It’s basically just a bed sheet. Though the shield took a bit of work.’

[C19fan]

Brussels loving sore losers.

[wastoute]

I suppose when your bull gets gored a little mourning is appropriate.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Bring back the shilling, guinea, crown and penny-farthing!

[C19fan]

I collect those coins, from the Victorian era. Penny-farthing is the name people gave to the first bicycles, the one with the massive front wheel and tiny rear wheel. The massive front wheel was the “penny” part and the tiny rear wheel was the “farthing”.

[xp38]

And the tuppence to feed the birds.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I know what a penny-farthing is. I was just making snark.

How many sovereigns, florins, tuppence, and ha’pennies have you?

[a fool in paradise]

£.s.d.

[C19fan]

Sovereigns zero...bit too pricey.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

They weren't called penny farthing until they were almost obsolete. They were called high wheels then, after the safety bicycle was invented, the ordinary.

There is a new show called David Jason's Great British Inventions that has a segment on these bicycles featuring one of the last high wheel builders in the world.

[T-Bird45]

“There is a new show called David Jason’s Great British Inventions that has a segment on these bicycles featuring one of the last high wheel builders in the world.”

For God’s sake, don’t tell Mike Wolfe from “American Pickers” — he’ll swoon dead away.

[T-Bird45]

Re: the headline — I thought the “Loony” was a Canadian coin...

[outofsalt]

"The Remainers have transitioned from fearing Brexit to actively hoping Brexit will indeed prove the catalyst for national catastrophe. Their entire world view is predicated on Brexit’s failure.
The economy has to slump, then crash. The NHS and other vital public services have to collapse. Britain has to be isolated, then shunned, by the global community."

Reminds me of some here at home. Proven wrong over and over.

[golux]

Ah! Sovereignty: the bane of social justice!
If only a ‘young trans person’ had made this fateful Brexit decision.

[kearnyirish2]

They only changed from them in 1971; they aren’t rare. I remember the Crown coins with Churchill on them.

[aquila48]

“But lecturing has become the Remainers’ default setting. To be fair, few are foolish – or honest – enough to go as far as Christian in openly expressing the hope people who voted for Brexit will die soon. But his cartoonish outpourings expose a deeper reality.

The Remainers have transitioned from fearing Brexit to actively hoping Brexit will indeed prove the catalyst for national catastrophe. Their entire world view is predicated on Brexit’s failure.”

Does that sound familiar or what?

[dfwgator]

Commies are the same the world over.

[hanamizu]

I have a coronation set from Elizabeth II. Included are a farthing (1/4d), half-penny (1/2d), penny (1 d), threepence (3d), sixpence 6d), an English shilling (12d= 1/), a Scottish shilling, a florin (2/), a half crown (2 1/2 /), and a crown (5/) which would 1/4 £. To make things even more confusing for tourists, the English gave nicknames to many of their coins as well as having a semi-fictional “guinea” which was worth £1 1/. This was used in prices for expensive things to make them appear less expensive. If something was advertised as costing 200 guineas, it really cost £220.

By Elizabeth’s time the threepence coins and above were copper-nicklel instead of silver—the cost of WWII. Originally English silver coins were sterling (92.5%) silver, but after WWI they were reduced to 50% silver.