handling over 17/6d was completely bonkers.A ten bob note, 7 shillings and a tanner. Simple. :thumbsup:
handling over 17/6d was completely bonkers.A ten bob note, 7 shillings and a tanner. Simple. :thumbsup:
handling over 17/6d was completely bonkers.A ten bob note, 7 shillings and a tanner. Simple. :thumbsup:
handling over 17/6d was completely bonkers.A ten bob note, 7 shillings and a tanner. Simple. :thumbsup:
More likely a ten bob note and three half-crowns.
We were holding a protest in the tuck shop as they'd sneakily upped the price of Blackjacks from 4-a-penny (960/£) to 4-a-new-halfpenny (800/£). Bastards.
Finally, something that makes me feel young.
Diamondgeezer has brought back £sd:Nothing to do with decimalisation from the blogspot that links to now:
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/ (https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/)
St Helen's is the largest such place of worship to survive the Great Fire and the Blitz, although two IRA bombs caused a fair bit of damage in the 1990s so there's been a lot of touching up. The interior's broad and spacious with two naves, all the better to cram in the four different congregations who turn up on Sundays. Parishioners were setting up for the main morning service when I peered in, with Mandarin, Informal and Contemporary gatherings due later in the day.Surely church services are all virtual now?
For anyone wanting good old British currency instead of this filthy foreign decimal stuff it should be noted that £ s d (Librae, Solidi and denari) were introduced by Charlemagne when he sorted out the old Roman currency and are therefor French.So when people say 'Do me a solid!' they're actually asking for 5p?
According to my mother, the old system made mental arithmetic easier, since few things are sold in tens. Also, it was easier to work out a third or a quarter of prices.
According to my mother, the old system made mental arithmetic easier, since few things are sold in tens. Also, it was easier to work out a third or a quarter of prices.Isn't it the other way round? Things were sold in fours and twelves and so on because of the measurement system in use? As evidence, I point to eggs in Poland, which are sold in fives and tens.
Curiously, I remember one pound being approximately 20 Austrian schillings in 2000.
“NOTE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND AMERICANS: One shilling = Five Pee. It helps to understand the antique finances of the Witchfinder Army if you know the original British monetary system:
Two farthings = One Ha'penny. Two ha'pennies = One Penny. Three pennies = A Thrupenny Bit. Two Thrupences = A Sixpence. Two Sixpences = One Shilling, or Bob. Two Bob = A Florin. One Florin and One Sixpence = Half a Crown. Four Half Crowns = Ten Bob Note. Two Ten Bob Notes = One Pound (or 240 pennies). Once Pound and One Shilling = One Guinea.
The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated.”
Brexiteers are probably planning to bring it all back, assuming they can't go for broke and revert to groats.
Curiously, I remember one pound being approximately 20 Austrian schillings in 2000.
handling over 17/6d was completely bonkers.A ten bob note, 7 shillings and a tanner. Simple. :thumbsup:
Curiously, I remember one pound being approximately 20 Austrian schillings in 2000.
I remember the same from the mid 90s. The German friend I was travelling with at the time couldn't understand how I could convert to Sterling so instinctively...
TBF, given that I was <1 year old at decimalisation, that's probably a fair question.
Diamondgeezer has brought back £sd:Nothing to do with decimalisation from the blogspot that links to now:
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/ (https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/)QuoteSt Helen's is the largest such place of worship to survive the Great Fire and the Blitz, although two IRA bombs caused a fair bit of damage in the 1990s so there's been a lot of touching up. The interior's broad and spacious with two naves, all the better to cram in the four different congregations who turn up on Sundays. Parishioners were setting up for the main morning service when I peered in, with Mandarin, Informal and Contemporary gatherings due later in the day.Surely church services are all virtual now?
A ten bob note and three half-crowns (before 1/1/1970)...
handling over 17/6d was completely bonkers.A ten bob note, 7 shillings and a tanner. Simple. :thumbsup:
More likely a ten bob note and three half-crowns.
We were holding a protest in the tuck shop as they'd sneakily upped the price of Blackjacks from 4-a-penny (960/£) to 4-a-new-halfpenny (800/£). Bastards.
"A penny, a penny, tuppence, and penny and a half and a halfpenny" - who?hmm. Is it from Dickens? It looks like how many beans make five.
"A penny, a penny, tuppence, and penny and a half and a halfpenny" - who?hmm. Is it from Dickens? It looks like how many beans make five.
Some beans?
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After decimalisation the new 5p coins were the same size and weight as the shilling. (In fact old shillings remained in circulation for some time)
This was also the same size and weight as the German mark. This made purchasing cigarettes from machines in Germany nice and cheap. It also vastly improved the odds on those gambling machines they had in bars then. (Until you started to win back 5ps, which was when it was time for a sharp exit)
I have a mint Churchill Crown (5/- or 25p) that must been issued when he died ... and, in a plastic case, a Coronation Crown from 1953 (all schoolchidren were issued with one, I can remember getting mine together with a book about Essex (where we lived) which I still have somewhere . . . the coins are probably not worth anything :(
Russia converted to a decimal currency under Tsar Peter the Great in 1704, with the ruble being equal to 100 kopeks, thus making the Russian ruble the world's first decimal currency.[2]And there are effectively no non-decimal currencies left in use:
Today, only two countries have non-decimal currencies: Mauritania, where 1 ouguiya = 5 khoums, and Madagascar, where 1 ariary = 5 iraimbilanja.[1] However, these are only theoretically non-decimal, as in both cases the value of the main unit is so low that the sub-units are too small to be of any practical use and coins of the sub-units are no longer used.So I wonder which will be the first to reverse the trend?
The half-crown was a lovely coin. I wish I'd kept one as a souvenir but back then it was a whole pint of McEwan's.
I just looked up old money. It's mental. 240 pence in a pound? With that and imperial measures to have contended with, I'd be pissing my pants, gibbering at people in the park,If that was what you grew up with then it wasn't a problem. :thumbsup:
The half-crown was a lovely coin. I wish I'd kept one as a souvenir but back then it was a whole pint of McEwan's.
Really? I began my under-age drinking career in 1970 or 1971 and we were paying 1s 2d a pint then for basic keg bitter. I think double diamond was a penny more.
By the time I got to college and could drink legally, ISTR the college bar charge 11p a pint, although it we went to the catholic club we could get ale for 9p a pint.
After decimalisation the new 5p coins were the same size and weight as the shilling. (In fact old shillings remained in circulation for some time)
This was also the same size and weight as the German mark. This made purchasing cigarettes from machines in Germany nice and cheap. It also vastly improved the odds on those gambling machines they had in bars then. (Until you started to win back 5ps, which was when it was time for a sharp exit)
The half-crown was a lovely coin. I wish I'd kept one as a souvenir but back then it was a whole pint of McEwan's.
Really? I began my under-age drinking career in 1970 or 1971 and we were paying 1s 2d a pint then for basic keg bitter. I think double diamond was a penny more.
By the time I got to college and could drink legally, ISTR the college bar charge 11p a pint, although it we went to the catholic club we could get ale for 9p a pint.
Don't want to start a fight here but I think you must have been drinking halves at those prices - in 1970 the "official statistics" give 2/11d a pint in old money as the average for ordinary (and it was vey ordinary!) beer - that's about 14.5p in new money. My memory of prices as far back as 1963 for beer when I first frequented pubs was about 1/10d a print (that's ~9.5p)
... the other frightening comparison is that when I first had a car in May 1965 you could buy just over 4 GALLONS of petrol for £1.00.
I have a mint Churchill Crown (5/- or 25p) that must been issued when he died ... and, in a plastic case, a Coronation Crown from 1953 ...
I have a mint Churchill Crown (5/- or 25p) that must been issued when he died ... and, in a plastic case, a Coronation Crown from 1953 ...
Some more scrap metal for you. A couple of Churchill crowns (1965), a Coronation crown and shrapnel for various royal anniversaries. Brenda & Phil the Greek's silver wedding, HM Brenda's Silver Jubilee and something for QEQM in 1980. Dunno what that was for, her 3 millionth Dubonnet & Gin?(https://i.ibb.co/vYbZnkM/Crowns.jpg)
I think I remember being amused by a news vox pop with an old woman on a bus, complaining how decimalisation was unfair on old people, and that 'they should wait for all of us to die before they introduce it'.
80/- a barrel.
I’m sure it tasted lovely in 1965. By the late ‘70s Scottish beer was gassed and pasteurised to death.