Cocoa the Pirate's First Adventure!!!

Hallo!  Cocoa Beanie here!  Beanie's taking me on my first ever adventure!!!

Where are we going?

Hang on - those are dinosaurs!!!  They're scary!!!

Beanie says a real adventure is always a bit scary but not to worry too much.

Jurassic Beach??  There's another dinosaur over that sign!!!

Keep out??  Oh, OK!!!

Instead we came into a thing called Arcade with some 2p shuffle games.  Beanie showed me how it worked - and I won a prize!!!!!

And then we got another prize!!!

And then two more prizes!!!! Oh wow!!  We're good at this game!!!

Look at that!  Two keychains, a lollypop and a bag of jewels!!!

And THEN we won another lollypop and a pack of swizzles sweeties!!

Oh wow!!

Since we couldn't carry much more (we're only little mice you know) we decided to hitch a ride on this pirate shop to get past those horrendous dinosaurs!

We loaded up our stash carefully - don't want to drop anything.

This pirate ship has a black piggie as a figurehead!!!

These must be the black piggie pirates then!!!!

Then we ran past the dinosaurs......

And got home safely!  Oh what fun!

Beanie says we've got somewhere special to stash our pirate winnings.

In his pirate treasure chest!  Oh wow, Beanie's got a pirate treasure chest!!!

Oh wow..... what a fun first adventure!!  I like being a pirate.

A new 50p coin!!!

We got a new 50p coin in our change today!!!!!

It says "Diversity Built Britain"!!

We don't have this one in my collection, so it's going in my treasure chest!!

Hurrah!!

I found money!!!

Andrea had to pop out to Tesco's the other day and she found a 10p on the pavement (sidewalk) outside the house

MINE!!!!!!!

 

New Piratey treasure!!

I got a new 50p coin for my piratey treasure chest!!!!!

It's another Paddington Bear one!!!

I'm so HAPPY!!

 

More Pirate Money for the Treasure Chest!!!

We spotted another fancy £2 coin in Andrea's purse the other day.  It's commemorating the UK abolition of slavery in 1807..... minted in 2007 so the bicentenarary

I don't have this one in my collection so that's going straight into my Treasure Chest!!

 

Treasure Chest and Pirate money!

We decided to check my Treasure Chest today to see how much spending money I've collected up!

There's LOADS!

This is a Casino Chip that we found on the pavement the first time I got taken to Amsterdam!!!

It's worth 100!!!  See?  I'm a rich mouse!

I got a matching key ring too!!

This is a 1 schilling Prater Wheel token that Andrea got in Vienna about a million years ago!

We found this in Amsterdam too, the second time we went there!

I've also got some Waitrose and Tesco tokens too!!

And some rusty washers!!!

I've got some wooden tokens....

And this is a Kuwaiti coin that I found outside Harrods!!!

These are UK coins that Andrea found on the pavement - all money found on pavements is automatically mine!!

Oh!  I got some pound coins too?  Brilliant!!

Those are American pennies.

And those are Euro coins!!  Andrea's got a load of those, I might sell them to her.

And I got a Canadian penny too!!!  Apparently those aren't made any more because they cost £6.73 to make and they're only worth a penny.

I've also got all these from all sorts of places like Romania, Poland, Philippines and Iceland!

I've also got a medal from the Royal Pavilion!

We got three Beatrix Potter 50ps - this one's Jemima Puddle-duck!

And Mrs Tiggy-winkle

And Benjamin Bunny!!

This one's a commemoration of the Battle of Britain in 1940!

Not sure about this one but it looks like a soldier carrying a wounded soldier to safety....

And this one is to do with the 1918 Representation of the People Act

You can read about that here!!

This one's from the London Olympcs - we think it's basketball.

And this one's swimming!

This one is to do with running but was minted in 2004 before we had the Olympics.  Andrea thinks it's to do with the four minute mile.

This one commemorates British composer Benjamin Britten!

This doesn't commemorate anything but it's different to the "normal" 50p which has Britannia in the middle!!

This one was produced in January 2020, to do with the UK's exit from the EU

And this one - which we got in our change a few days ago - is Paddington Bear!!!

We've got some fancy £2 coins too!!  These ones are Shakespeare ones  (the skull is poor Yorrick)

This one is a first world war "Your country needs YOU" coin!

This one's Florence Nightingale!

The one on the left is St Pauls Cathedral (end of world war 2) and the one on the right is Britannia.

This one relates to Trinity House which was set up by King Henry 8th to support Mariners!!!

You can find out about it here!!

This one is when the Olympic torch went from London 2012 to Rio 2016

This one is to do with Isambard Kingdom Brunel!!!  We've been to his museum in London!

Info here

And this one is about the Great Fire of London in 1666!!!

And that's my coin collekshun!!

Actually we found some more!!!  Andrea said I could put my collection in a proper coin album that she has and we found some more 50 pees!!!  This one is when we JOINED the EU in 1973 so we have both ends of our membership!!!  What fun!

This one is celebrating public libraries!

That's another one of those soldier ones that I've got!  We could sell one of these and make some money!!

This one's a VC 50p!

And a suffragette coin about women getting the vote!

Pence is plural of penny, you know.

This one is Andrea's first collected £2 coin and has a dove bird on it.  It's a bit fuzzy though.

That one we think commemorates the Bank of England.....

And this one is the Mary Rose which is King Henry 8th flag ship warship!!  That lives in Portsmouth Historic dockyard where you can go and visit it.  In fact, that's a good "pair" coin with the Trinity House coin that I've got!

Oh that cheers me up even more, knowing that I have "pair" coins!!!!