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Wartime Currency and Values replied on: 9/22/2006 12:21:22 AM The Gazette 18th Jan 1940 "Ah me! Who would be a shopkeeper in wartime? Added to the worries of rationingof some commodoties and of getting supplies of others, lack of the farthing,is coming perilously near to being the last straw on the camel's back. At the meeting of the Heanor \\\\\\\\\\\\tradesmen and trade Association on Tuesday night, local shopkeepers complained they could not get enough farthings. They told agonising stories of visits to banks. hoping that these plutocratic organisations would at least have a few farthings they could get their hands on. But no! Shopkeepers have been left to face the terrible problem themselves. So if you have a rough edged, more or less triangular shaped piece of copper pushed into your hand any day you will know that some desperate shopkeeper has reverted to the rough and ready usage of the Middle Ages and has started cutting pennies into quarters to use as farthings."

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