DERBY DAY 1960s AND 1970s EPSOM DOWNS

Gypsies at the Derby horse race, Epsom Down Surrey, England 1969. Spinning pennies off a matchbox, a variant of the traditional gambling game of chance. Tossing Pennies. The spinner - the banker throwing two pennies into the air. Players bet on whether the coins will fall with both heads up, both tails up, or with one coin a head and one a tail, known as "ones". If both coins land heads up or tails up you win depending on your call. Heads and tails everyone looses apart from the...
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Gypsies at the Derby horse race, Epsom Down Surrey, England 1969. Spinning pennies off a matchbox, a variant of the traditional gambling game of chance. Tossing Pennies. The spinner - the banker throwing two pennies into the air. Players bet on whether the coins will fall with both heads up, both tails up, or with one coin a head and one a tail, known as "ones". If both coins land heads up or tails up you win depending on your call. Heads and tails everyone looses apart from the thrower upper of the coins.
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