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No farthings left by 1971 it used to be four to a penny back in the 1960s.Decimalisation was the biggest rip off ever for the British public food prices doubled almost overnight
Ah yes, I remember, “new pence” (or, nuppence)
An English person explained the old system to me in the '70s and I still haven't picked my jaw up. Add in all the weird names and my head is spinning. Is a tuppence 4 times a ha'penny? Bob? Crown? Sovereign? Florin? Crown? Guinea? Come on!
Ah yes, when the UK finally kicked its £sd habit...
I was there in 1969 with Mum. The switch had begun from shillings to “new pence” I still have a “thrupnee bit” and half crown. As I recall £4-6p was the admission at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford on Avon. About $10 at the time.
Gotta love your cookiewall.
I found a halfpenny in my change and not sure what to do with it. Keep it as a souvenir, I guess.
They could switch to the metric money system yet we can't switch to the metric measurement system. smh come on
CCPVirus Marion Koopmans traveled to Wuhan as a World Health Organization (WHO) investigator involved in the origin of SARS-CoV-2. Back in 2008, she was hired as a scientific advisor to the Guangdong CDC.
Whatever I’m still 10 stones, 9 pounds, and whoever tells me my weight in kg be damned. 🇬🇧
I don’t give a farthing
'In those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Gimme five bees for a quarter,' you'd say.'
There happens to be an awesome measuring system based on the same principle. We don’t like it in the US.
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