I base the majority of my 20mm WW2 figures for Chain of Command on 1p Pieces. Checking they are magnetic before using them.
The non Magnetic ones are donated to my Grandchildren's piggy banks.
18 Months ago I got £5 of mixed copper coins. This gave me around 200 magnetic 1p pieces and 100 magnetioc 2p pieces. Over the weekend I ran out of 1p pieces for the Japanese platoon I have been painting. I scrabbled around and managed to find enough 1ps to complete the platoon.
As I had to go into the town today I thought I will pop into the bank and get some more 1p pieces for the next project. This is always a faff as they have to go to the vault to get the coins. Then they are usually in mixed bags so I end up with 2p coins I do not really want.
Today the lady said how many do you want I initially said £5 worth, then thought about the repeated rumours of phasing out the 1p piece and the fact that I would probably get mixed coin bags so only half would be the 1p pieces I wanted. With that in mind I doubled my request to £10.
She was back 2 minutes later not needing to go to the vault and gave me 10 £1 bags of 1p pieces - not a 2p in sight. Whoops I will never use all those, but I had already signed the withdrawal form so I smiled and left thinking " I will Never need to do this again.
THis afternoon I got a sheet of Maganabase and spread the coins out to see which I was going to keep. Surprisingly only 20% were non magnetic. I placed the non magnetic one to one side for the grandchildren. Put the others in a box and went tpo place them in the back of the Den cupboard for when I needed them.
As I arranged stuff to fit the box in I came across ............... You have guessed a bag with about 300 1p pieces in. This bag WAS NOT in the cupboard when I was scrabbling around for half a dozen pennies this weekend.
Mrs Orcs will now no doubt ridicule me and tell me I should have had a "Mummy Look" not a "Daddy Look" for those coins. I maintain some dodgy gremlin or borrower had them over the weekend.
You do realise this is a plot to drive you over the edge don't you?
Remember it's only paranoia if they AREN'T out to get you!
My mantra when I was at work was "Just because I'm paranoid it does not men they are not out to get yme"
But they are... :d