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You may think it’s nothing special, but this penny means something.

To be honest, I don’t know anything about it. I wouldn’t even know what it was, if it wasn’t clearly written. I don’t know if it’s old or recent. I suppose it’s a British penny because, on a side, you can see the image and read the name of the Queen.

It is special because I’ve never been to the UK. Actually, I haven’t been abroad at all.

However, I can easily guess how this coin reached my pockets.

Wrong change.

Yes, the kind of wrong change where it isn’t just the amount to be incorrect, but the currency.

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    Have you ever got foreign currency by mistake?

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Written by sabtraversa

29 Comments

  1. I have any number of these in my change – maybe because I’m British and these are precisely what I would expect to get! I have been known to get the occasional US cent in my change – they are the same size and weight.

    The inscription reads ELIZABETH II D. G. REG. F. D. 2001 – the initials stand for Deo Gratia Regina Fideo Defensor, this being Latin for Queen by the Grace of God. Defender of the Faith. The latter title was given in the 16th century to King Henry VIII by the Pope at the time, as recognition for his actions on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church. Not long afterwards, Henry broke with the Catholics and made himself head of the Church of England, which every monarch since that time has been. Henry kept the title, although the faith he was defending was completely different!

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    • They all look alike and it’s the same here, they were planning to remove them but I guess they forgot. ?
      At least they’re useful to not make mosquito eggs hatch in stagnant waters. Copper is antiseptic. Well, pennies have a very little amount of copper, but I’ve heard it works. ?

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  2. LOL, sounds like something special …perhaps “fun”?
    I do keep currency of countries I visited and then at times I accidentally use them … lol
    but the sellers are very sharp, they’ll tell me I gave them wrong currency :p

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    • In this case, I feel lucky. I never had such a coin before and it was probably mistaken for a cent of little value (we have euros here in Italy). Unfortunately, I also mistakenly got dead currencies, that can’t be used anywhere and anymore, instead of €2 coins. The €2 is the coin with the highest value, worth USD 2,29. That was a loss. ?

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    • I don’t like the little pennies either, here we call them “lice”. ?
      They can come in handy sometimes, but carrying a purse of coins all the time isn’t that pleasant. I just appreciate and keep those with a meaning or nice images.