40 years today since decimalisation

[leclerc]

Public Information Films | 1964 to 1979 | Film index | Decimal Currency The System

This is how it was explained.

[pompeyfaith]

Re: 40 years today since decimalisation

Out of interest does anyone still have a half penny ?

[leclerc]

Re: 40 years today since decimalisation

I did have but I doubt I could find it.....I do have a £1 note

[Caspar]

Re: 40 years today since decimalisation

I've still got 1/2 penny, sixpence, threepenny bit.

I remember I was 7 being the first person into the shop in our village to spend the new money - I bought a Curly Wirly!

[Master Yoda]

Re: 40 years today since decimalisation

"Ripped off you shall be."
- Darth Heath

[enaid]

Re: 40 years today since decimalisation

"Ripped off you shall be."
- Darth Heath

Agreed lol

[Angry Cat]

Re: 40 years today since decimalisation

Remember how rich you felt, with 8 half crowns jingling in your pocket!

I have retained a large selection of old money coins; including the sweet little farthing

When cooking, I still work out recipes in Imperial measures; good old lbs & ounces.

[The Debt Star]

Re: 40 years today since decimalisation

my view is that (as with the exchange of the currencies for the Euro in 1999) there was probably a massive rip-off going on and people ended up with much less in their pocket than before decimalisation.

I also can't understand why we couldn't have kept traditional names like the shilling rather than 5 pee.

The biggest loss imo was the £1 note as that really devalued the pound in peoples' minds (although that came much later, when was it? 1980?)

[Angry Cat]

Re: 40 years today since decimalisation

Not forgetting the ten bob note, of course!

[seduraed]

Re: 40 years today since decimalisation

Well i still think occasionally in old money . But really are we in a situation where we need to generate a new currency or revaluation at 10 or a hundred times the old money . I think I 've got a old halfpenny certainally some pennies , and some old silver threpenny bits . which are about the size of the new five pence piece not the old shilling replacement .
Still in a few years Iexpe t they will allbe gone and the smallest coin will be a pound.

[Sapphire]

Re: 40 years today since decimalisation

I've got a couple of nice threepenny bits :grin: :wink:

Lick Sedurated I sometimes think in 'old money' boy does it give you the hump when you realise how much things are when you convert back grrrrrrrrrrrrr.