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The Magazine for Sheffield 23,000 Copies • Est I The Magazine For Sheffield 23,000 copies • Est. 1991 • October 2019 • www.grapevinesheffield.net Autumn In Endcliffe Park Open Letter To Voters Eat In Our Barn Treasure Hoard Found I Can Hear The Budgie Conservative Candidate - p.13 And Watch The Cows - p.12 Silver Pennies & Forgers - p.3 Latest Hearing Aids - p.18 Politics Caught Fire We’ll Collect Your Car Corian In Kitchens Sing-Songs At School Election In 1959 - p.24 Then Repair & Return It - p.39 My Seamless Worktops - p.22 Tuneful Nursery Children - p.43 NEW IMAGE SPECIAL OCCASIONS & CASUAL WEAR www.new-image.co.uk SPECIAL OCCASION WEAR PLEASE CALL TO BOOK YOUR APPOINTMENT Outfits for mother-of-the-bride/groom Matching hats, shoes and bags Special occasion wear Cruise wear Casual wear from European fashion houses One-to-one service coffee event Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Tues 10am - 7pm 2 n medieval England a terrible fate awaited men and much sought after by Viking invaders, convicted of forging coins. Their right hand was who would demand immense bribes of Icut off... ‘and both testicles beneath’. silver pennies to leave us in peace. Sums I often wish that such a penalty could be paid to those pirates were so vast that it reintroduced. This thought usually occurs when is a wonder longship fleets did not sink parking meters will not accept my pound coins under the weight. It was not unusual for because they are the wrong weight 20 tons of pennies to be handed over at (counterfeit, in other words). one time, yet England did not have any Nowadays, our currency silver mines to speak of - so from comprises eight coins and four where did we obtain all that banknotes, ranging in value from precious metal? 1p to £50. At the time of the Usually it was imported from Norman invasion, people in England had Bohemia, which is now part of the only the silver penny - 2,528 of which Czech Republic. have recently been unearthed in ‘Twenty dozen’ (240) English pennies equalled one a Somerset field by metal detectorists. pound of silver, and until decimalisation in 1971 that Many of these pennies bear the face of was how many copper pennies there were to a England’s King Harold II, who was killed at the pound Sterling. Battle of Hastings in 1066. Others show the visage of That was not the reason. With only one coin Forgers created fake coins, and also shaved silver his nemesis, King William I - formerly Duke William widely available, the only way people could give and from the edges of genuine ones, though there was of Normandy - who succeeded Harold on receive change was to divide pennies - often snipping an easier way to cheat. It was called ‘dusting’. the throne. (Actually, in those days there was them into pieces, which was legal. Pennies would be placed in a leather bag, which was also the mancus, a gold coin worth 30 pence, But these silver coins often wore thin then repeatedly shaken until a residue of silver but circulation of them will have been limited, - and forgeries were widespread - so every six particles could be harvested. and only a handful have ever been found). years people had to hand in their pennies at one of England minted silver pennies in 1066 to mark The hoard of pennies just the many royal mints scattered around England. King Harold’s reign, which lasted barely ten months, discovered contains many that These coins were melted down, and their former ending with his violent death on October 14th. are cut in half, and it has been owners handed freshly-minted ones (minus the Ironically, many of those coins bore a single word suggested this was done to check king’s handling charge - a tax of 10%). on the reverse: PAX. the coins’ silver purity. English coinage was among the best in Europe, Which is Latin for ‘peace’. 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