16-02-2019, 01:34 PM
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Re: Happy Birthday to the 'New Pence'.
Originally Posted by carol
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Is it my imagination or did we still have shillings? When the new money came in the shilling coin became 5p?
2 shillings = 10p
10 shillings = 50p
etc.
I won't mention half a crown (2 shillings and sixpence). Oh go on then, it's 12 and a half pence.
The previous ten bob note had been replaced with the 50p piece two years earlier.
16-02-2019, 01:39 PM
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Re: Happy Birthday to the 'New Pence'.
Originally Posted by carol
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Is it my imagination or did we still have shillings? When the new money came in the shilling coin became 5p?
There were also new half-pennies as well. Can't remember when they were phased out.
I think florins were treated as 10p pieces, but I can't quite remember. Edit....yes..see below..
I stick all my 1p coins into a piggy bank now, and once in a blue moon I count them out and take them to the bank. It takes ages and you don't get very much! After all, it takes a hundred of them to make just a pound!
Edit...
https://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_bri...alisation.html
I'd forgotten, but we'd had the new 5, 10 and 50p coins since 1968 and 1969 already! Alongside the shillings, florins and ten-bob notes.
16-02-2019, 01:43 PM
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Re: Happy Birthday to the 'New Pence'.
Originally Posted by Pyxell
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That's right, we did. The shilling was treated as 5p. The new 5p coins looked much the same as the shilling.There were also new half-pennies as well. Can't remember when they were phased out.
I think florins were treated as 10p pieces, but I can't quite remember.
I stick all my 1p coins into a piggy bank now, and once in a blue moon I count them out and take them to the bank. It takes ages and you don't get very much! After all, it takes a hundred of them to make just a pound!
18-02-2019, 11:37 AM
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Re: Happy Birthday to the 'New Pence'.
Originally Posted by Mups
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Totall agree. 
We didn't used to call them 'd's' before, did we. e.g. 5s.10d.
18-02-2019, 11:47 AM
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Re: Happy Birthday to the 'New Pence'.
Originally Posted by Pyxell
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I seem to remember we started calling them p because 'new pence' was a mouthful, and we had to differentiate between the old pennies and the new ones, else we would have been in a right two and eight!
18-02-2019, 11:59 AM
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Re: Happy Birthday to the 'New Pence'.
Originally Posted by Psmith
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48 years old today.Born 15 Feb 1971.
not new anymore but still going strong, as long as Tesco etc... have fantastic offers at only 99p.
I suppose it will then become only 95p instead!
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