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    COLLECTING FOR BEGINNERS

    Apr 09, 2021 2 minutes

    If you’re ever in need of cheering up, I strongly recommend finding the Max Bygraves ‘Decimalisation song’ (you can watch it over on our sister website ) and playing it at full whack. Trumpets blast out as Bygraves jubilantly declares, “there’s a hundred new pennies now for every pound”, in the sort of voice usually reserved for celebrating the end of a war.

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