Reward totalling £1.5 million on offer

[petee]

Didn't people pay with pebbles and sticks before decimal money was invented?

hey kiddo, ireland and england used to have interchangable curency. the firs time i wen tot he ould country i was getting pennies in change with victoria on them. i kept a few.

 

[WouldBe]

Nope, LSD, mate.

Where the S is for seagulls.

 

[PTK]

There never was a generalised system of barter before there was curerency, according to David Graeber. There was instead a system of social debt.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

hey kiddo, Ireland and England used to have interchangeable currency. the first time I went to the old country I was getting pennies in change with Victoria on them. I kept a few.

Wow - so you were born in the Victorian era?

This feels like an Urban1875 thread...

 

[petee]

Wow - so you were born in the Victorian era?

yes.
e2a i also see that you edited my ould spelling of ould, but also fixed the typos.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Wow - so you were born in the Victorian era?

This feels like an Urban1875 thread...

Back in the day the Rural 1675 threads were much better.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[moochedit]

Who has £15000 in cash just lying around?

Drug dealors

 

[krtek a houby]

hey kiddo, ireland and england used to have interchangable curency. the firs time i wen tot he ould country i was getting pennies in change with victoria on them. i kept a few.

Dunno about that particular vile monarch, but remembering the 70s and the English currency was accepted in many places.

Quite rightly it was eventually done with.

 

[pbsmooth]

So there were people in the house and he got in via the roof!

CCTV shows how burglar carried out £10m jewellery heist CCTV shows how burglar carried out £10m London jewellery heist

 

[Dogsauce]

Given the rewards offered, possibly not.

Nah, the stuff’s safely stashed in their other place in Dubai. They can confidently offer this ‘reward’ to look serious about the burglary and convince the insurance company that it happened, safe in the knowledge that nobody will find the items and they won’t have to stump up such small change.

 

[WouldBe]

Where was Michael Caine when this happened.

 

[May Kasahara]

"Cultural ambassador for the Halcyon Gallery", this would be the same Halcyon that has been regularly written about in Private Eye regarding the various tax evasions, Russian connections and other dodgy dealings undertaken by gallery owner and former Tory party treasurer Ehud Sheleg then?

 

[Sue]

"Cultural ambassador for the Halcyon Gallery", this would be the same Halcyon that has been regularly written about in Private Eye regarding the various tax evasions, Russian connections and other dodgy dealings undertaken by gallery owner and former Tory party treasurer Ehud Sheleg then?

I hope you're not cynically suggesting there's something dodgy about an 'influencer' with a paltry number of followers and £10 million in tacky jewellery and handbags?