Someone Had A Close Call

[Gil Boyd]

Loads on Ebay every week...................must have been a lot of lucky soldiers out there to have achieved such an impossibility in so many wars whilst the coinage of the UK was struck!!!

[Strangely Brown]

My wife has her great uncles issued prayer book which was struck by a bullet in the Great War, I suspect it was in his small pack when it happened.
I never met him but my wife tells me he suffered from shell shock and was painfully shy to the extent of hiding from visitors when he returned from France.

[Roger Payne]

It's a little odd how many of these coins are British but so are the bullets that have pierced them!

[Gil Boyd]

Why would a British soldier shoot at another British soldeir just to try and hit the coin dead centre in his pocket.
I can however believe the bible story

[browningautorifle]

What's really strange is how many troops carry loose change into combat...pockets jingling...

[Roger Payne]

Yes, what I was suggesting in post 23 was that most of these were probably just 'manufactured' for the souvenir market. Maybe the odd one is genuine, but not most. A sort of specialised form of trench art really......

[browningautorifle]

Not something I'd buy as genuine.

[Gil Boyd]

Now.......................I have a PARA helmet that I had a richochet off in Northern Ireland is that worth something. It happened at Ballykinlar ranges in the butts

[pisco]

a lot of blokes carried a lucky penny my pop carried one for years

[browningautorifle]

a lucky penny

So, he carried it in combat?