Who remembers sixpenny bits?

Sixpenny pieces, did we call them, or sixpenny bits?

I found this little hoard among some of my late mother’s things.

They’re all pre-decimal, of course, so are no longer legal tender. Although Victorian silver sixpences were made almost entirely of silver, these later coins showing the head of George VI are a mix of silver and an alloy of copper and nickel. The silver sixpences from the reign of Elizabeth II contain no silver at all.

But they bring back happy memories of making Christmas puddings and cakes when I was a child, and we didn’t die of metal poisoning or choke to death on any of them. So it’s all good!