What was the most valuable currency in your playground

Aerials off teachers cars, eventually Gardai were called and an aerial off their car was collected.

Videos of wrestling pay per views recorded on Sky Sports. A buddy of mine used to tape the repeats as well and sell them for 10 pound. He went on to record some dodgy German satellite softcore porn in 6th class, brought it in to show the lads when we had a video one Friday afternoon and ended up getting caught by a nun who was 'visibly shaken' according to the teacher (his parents were called and told us the full story at his 21st). Now they'd just call it sex education.

Bullet casings (got at army shop / firing ranges?)
Car logos from cars ( only scumbag kids mostly)
Porno mags (before the internetz!!)
Caps / bangers
A tennis ball

Panini Football Stickers, and Pogs.

Marbles when from about 1st - 3rd class
Then pogs were introduced for about 2 years and then it was back to marbles after we realised they were just ****ty pieces of cardboard.
Interspersed with these fads was the yearly football sticker book things

Elastics were pretty hot property in my playground. (the kind you did a form of skipping with)

Started the whole collecting/swapsies/game thing in the schoolyard with the puppies/kittens in my pocket and marbles then stickers, when I was about 8 i think, then the whole Pogs and Slammers thing which i would love to have now just out of memories tbh i had a huge box of them but no idea where there are now after moving houses a lot , then tamagotchis, then Goosebumps books and Point Horror, then lastly just as I was in 1st year in secondary school came the Pokemon!

I sort of collected them, but being 13 I was more into the plush toys of them and the TV show

Just saw someone said about the judy blume books and Forever , I read the Judy Blume stuff since I was about 11 i think, but never actually discovered and read Forever till I was 16, me and my friend from school then still remember that day we bought that, one of those curious in your teens type of books methinks

Star Wars cards, who ever threw the card closest to the window won the other card, if you got your card on the lower/upper ledge you won some money as well as the card.

A-Team cards only for swapping as too small/light to throw

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That moment when you remember something and you have a big grin .

Wow....

I went to a highly catholic primary school. An old nun used to come around every week to collect used stamps from us (for some charity or something) and she would sell these holy knick-knacks. Pictures of saints for 5p, miraculous medals for 10p etc. If you were AWESOME enough to have 25p you could get glow-in-the-dark rosary beads and be the envy of your class for the rest of the day. You wouldn't swap em or anything, you'd use them solely for bragging rights.

Looking back I realise my primary school experience was quite unique :pac:

There was always one kid that made the mistake with the Premier League sticker saying "I need that to fill Team X or to fill the book", cue some ridiculous bartering attempts.

2 small stickers were worth one big (half a team) one.

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but without doubt it had to have been the holographic Charizard Pokémon card. Before that, I think it was one of the ''gold'' slammers from Pogs.

Marbles or, in Cork, Glassy Allies(?)
Marble season was a moving feast - no-one knew when it started, it just did. Some of the big boys had steelers (ball bearings) whose value was calculated in "times" using a secret formula, e.g. a 1/2" steeler might be a 20 timer, meaning that you had to beat him 20 + 1 times in a row to win his steeler. And you thought NAMA was complicated!
Anto's dad worked in CIE and had access to "real" steelers - 100 timers and more like cannon balls. Unbeatable but Anto had a strange walk when his steeler was in his pocket.