Wilma Rattray, 81, Has Kept a £1 Coin for Pitlochry Town Hall Since 1987, ‘Just in Case’
Pensioner delighted hall is going to the community; will 'keep the coin anyway'.
Wilma's pound: never spent, always ready. Photo: John K Thorne, “A large decorative stone coin. The old Barclays Bank Building in Maidstone”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
Wilma Rattray of Pitlochry has kept a pound coin in a wee purse in her kitchen drawer since 1987, labelled in biro: “FOR THE TOWN HALL”.
“I always thought it might come up,” said Wilma, 81. “You never know with halls. And now it has! For a pound! I could have had it. But it’s going to the community, which is me, so I’ve basically got it anyway.”
The coin — an old round one she calls “the shiny one” — is no longer legal tender, which Wilma describes as “a technicality, dear”.
She plans to put it in the new hall’s fundraising jar “for luck”, and is first in the queue for the ceilidh.
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