I’m just old enough to remember seeing somebody use pre-decimal coins (an old man in Sainsbury’s putting some old pennies on the conveyor and the check-out girl asking ‘are we still taking these?’) but when I checked-back I still don’t remember the correct order of some other coinage changes.

Decimal coins apparently reached the high-street in 1968 but Britain didn’t go decimal until 1971 so how did that work; were the five new-pence piece and the ten new-pence piece used as a ‘bob’ and a ‘florin’ respectively (since they were the same size)?
The fifty-pence piece was introduced in 1969 so how did that work pre-decimal; ten ‘bob’? :confused:

I don’t remember the sixpence being taken out of circulation (amazingly late in 1980) and I could have sworn that the twenty-pence piece arrived (in 1982) after the new halfpenny piece went out of circulation (actually 1984).

I can remember ‘threepenny bits’ with great fondness (the coins :rolleyes:) but can’t remember if I ever spent any or was just given some after they went out of circulation.

I can also remember becoming aware of the horrors of inflation when POLO mints went up from two to three pence; my pocket-money had once bought five tubes but now I could only afford three!

Yes, the new coins were the same size as old and ran in parallel.
The 50p coin gradually replaced the ten bob note. And indeed the pound not was paralleled with the £1 coin.
We loved our notes, and I’m certain that during the fade-out period the BofE changed to an inferior quality paper (It’s actually a woven cloth) so we’d get sick of them.

Threepenny bits.

One of my earliest memories is of Uncle Eric giving me a red box for Christmas, the kind of box you find a necklace in. It was about twelve inches long and three inches wide and it was stuffed full of threepenny bits. I thought he’d given me all the money in the world.

Regards,

kev

Happence
Penny
Tanner
Bob
Florin/Two bob
2 ana tanner / Half a dollar (I don’t remember anybody calling it the half crown)
Crowns were gone by the time I got spends. I think.
10 bob notes! (I’ve still got a wad in the loft somewhere)

Any old money! I still haven’t fully converted yet. If the shop assistant is of our age I still say “11 bob, for a Mars Bar!!” or such.
It’s the “15 bob for a morning paper!” or “2 Guinneas for a coffee” which sinks in the inflation though.

Everyone used the milkie, they even pulled their own carts.
Johnny 7. The best gun ever made.Yamaha FS1e
Party lines on the telephone, always someone else on the other end and you never knew who it was, was open to so much childish abuse!!!:diablo:
Lemonade/Fizzy pop delivered to your door.

Nah, the Mauser 96 that came with the “Man from Uncle” set. It was the best in real life too.

The MAN CITY player who scored the winning goal, who “EARNS £220.000 Per Week, absolutely makes a mockery of money, and those who work a damned site harder for just peanuts. 🙁

Lincoln .7

But my side won, so say what you like 🙂
And we won well and fair.
We’ve been too long in the shadow of the Reds up the road. But, I will be supporting the Reds in their Final in the week.

….and it’s “Put wood inth ole”

“Who buys the coal” was one of my Dads. The Dog would then move out of the way of the fire LoL.

We didn’t have neighbours. We were so poor we had to let the Butler go.

All offensive words are writing, but not all writing is offensive words.

All Lancasters are Bombers, not all Bombers are Lancasters.

I KNOW NOT ALL LANC’S WEREN’T BOMBERS, before ya start!! But they were built as such.

Fashion is a statement, she wanted to make one. End of.
Most of the intelligent women were looking at how beautiful the Bride and Pippa were.
Most of the intelligent men were thinking the same, but with a double act and a different ending to the day ;-).

If I were rich as Creosote, I’d buy it. Simply because it is a one off genuine artefact worn at a British Royal Wedding…and I would make money on it in years to come.