Buddhabellybutton Posted February 18, 2006 Posted February 18, 2006 Can anybody tell me anything about this Coin?Scool Dinners CoinThank you.Buddhabellybutton Quote
Geordie582 Posted February 18, 2006 Posted February 18, 2006 (edited) Judging from the telephone numbers and the slogan, it is an advertisement not a coin. A restaurant named "School Dinners" ? Edited February 18, 2006 by Geordie582 Quote
Buddhabellybutton Posted February 18, 2006 Author Posted February 18, 2006 Thank you.Should it be called a Token not a Coin then? Quote
Peter Posted February 18, 2006 Posted February 18, 2006 Its a piece of stamped metal from a tacky restaurant where I feel the "joke" ran out in the 90's. Quote
Chris Perkins Posted February 18, 2006 Posted February 18, 2006 (or even the 80's with an 01 London prefix before they changed to 081/071) Quote
Buddhabellybutton Posted February 19, 2006 Author Posted February 19, 2006 Thanks for all your input it is very welcome.Maybe I should change it to lump of metal with a nice pattern...lolThanks too everybody for there help.Peace and Love.Buddhabellybutton Quote
Chris Perkins Posted February 19, 2006 Posted February 19, 2006 Certainly an interesting reverse. Quote
Guest Aitchbee Posted February 25, 2006 Posted February 25, 2006 Right about the restaurant! This was the "eighties" of long lunches and excess. School Dinners was a fairly tacky but quite amusing idea, where red-braced young executives ate school-style meals - stews, sausages, meat pie etc. followed by rice pudding, jam roly-poly etc. The 'reverse' is a low level picture (!) of one of the lunch moniotrs who, as well as serving used to impose discipline on diners. Some used to sit on diners' knees and spoon feed them if they were reluctant to "eat it all up". Sadly, society grew up and became a bit po-faced babout this sort of thing, but it was fun at the time. The obverse was the trademark - a picture of a headmaster being more publicly acceptable than the alternative.I suggest (if you're old enough) you retain the coin and pretend you got it whilst there. If not, give it to someone else who might be able to!Thanks for the memory jog. Quote
Guest aitchbee Posted February 25, 2006 Posted February 25, 2006 Blimey! It's still operating, but now seems to have added stag & hen nights to the clientele - "Sexy St Trinians girls & Hunky Eaten (geddit) Boys". I'd have put money on them being out of business by the PC 90s.HB Quote
Buddhabellybutton Posted March 1, 2006 Author Posted March 1, 2006 I might have to check it out myself Quote
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