Penny Gallery

OLD ENGLISH COINS

Old (pre-Decimalisation) British coins (left to right): Top - penny, half penny, threepenny bit. Bottom - half crown, two shillings, one shilling, sixpence - tails

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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Penny Post Jubilee card - Sir Rowland Hill - 1890

A Penny Post Jubilee card, issued in 1890 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee (50 years, 1840 - 1890) of the Penny Post. The card features a postman from 1840 and one from 1890, the coats of armsof Queen Victoria, the North Mail coach and the North Mail train, approaching Carlisle at 48 miles an hour! Date: 1890

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

The Mechanical Cow - early vending machine

The Automatic Milk Supply- an early form of vending machine installed in Ilford Essex in 1911. Jugs of milk could be filled for one old penny Date: 1911

© The Andrew Jenkins Collection / Mary Evans A The Andrew Jenkins Collection / Mary Evans

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